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ILLUSTRATIONS,

HISTOEICAL AND GENEALOGICAL,

png James's Jrisjr %xm^ WxMf

(1689).

JOHN DALTON, Esq., Barrister,

AUTHOR OF THE PRIZE " ESSAT ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY, ETC. OF IRELAND," "HISTORY
OF THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN,' " MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN,"'
" HISTORY OF DROGHEDA," " ANNALS OF BOYLE," ETC. ETC. ETC.

DUBLIN:

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1855.

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Right Honourable Lord Farnham

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The O'Donovan, Montpelier ...

Robert Conway Hurley, Esq. Tralee

James Redmond Barry, Esq. Commissioner of fisheries

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ward Fitz-Gerald, Architect, Youghal ; Ignatius F.
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D. L., Killaloe ; John W. Hanna, Esq. Down-
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Glennon, Timothy, Esq. Coventry.

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Goold, WTyndham, Esq. (deceased) 5
copies.

O'Gorman, Nicholas Purcell, Esq.
Q.C.

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Graves, Rev. James, Kilkenny.
Griffin, Rev. G. A. New Abbey, Dum-
fries.

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Carlo, Casa Salvi, Pisa, 2 copies.

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Bank.

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PREFACE.

I have been often, and by many, invited to leave in
print, from my extensive manuscript collections, some
records of the families indigenous to, or long natural-
ized in Ireland ; their origin, actings, and 4 habitats.'
Yet it was not until a crisis of natural hurricanes
had felled 'the flowers of the forest,' and dismantled
their once flourishing companions, of bloom and foliage,
that the appeal was mournfully effective. It was not
a task of labour to me ; it was willingly and zealously
undertaken. I examined my relics of other days ;
and one little tract, of which I had a copy, the
Muster Eoll of the Army of King James the Second
in Ireland, giving the names of the several Colonels
and subaltern officers of the respective Regiments of
Horse, Dragoons, and Infantry in his service, seemed
akin to the subject I sought to effectuate. The
families in commission thereupon, upwards of five
hundred, were the aristocracy of their country at that

PREFACE.

day ; and though all who were then able to bear
arms in the Stuart cause, were decimated on the
deadly fields of this campaign, very many names still
survived and struggled in respectability and tenure
almost to the present time.

When I embraced the project, I devoted to its
accomplishment such literary aid as I could draw
from those manuscripts, which it has cost me nearly
fifty years of labour, research, and outlay to accumu-
late. They extend through upwards of two hundred
volumes, and especially supply a singular mass of in-
formation for illustrating the lineage, honours and
achievements of families connected with Ireland by
title, tenure, rank, birth, or alliance. Having here-
tofore furnished some genealogical Memoirs on liberal
support, I felt confident that, when I embraced a
grouping so extensive as that of King James's Army
List, more than the mere expenses of my outlay in
printing and paper would be cheerfully volunteered
for my indemnity. I gave every reasonable publicity
to the project, and was gratified by the warm co-
operation of the Irish press and some of the English.
I also issued very generally circulars, in which were
detailed the Eegiments to be treated of; Eight of
Horse, Seven of Dragoons, and Fifty-six of Infantry ;
on all which the Colonels, Majors, Captains and sub-

PREFACE.

alterns are named and classed. Of the family of each
I proposed to give Historical and Genealogical Illus-
trations ; with especial regard, in the case of Irish
Septs, to their respective ancient localities ; and in
that of surnames introduced from England or Scot-
land, to the counties from which they migrated, and
the periods of their coming over. After some notices
of early chronology, I designed to shew how far each
of these was affected by Cromwell's Denunciation
Ordinance of 1652, and by attainders and confisca-
tions, more particularly those of 1642 and 1691 ;
how they were represented in Sir John Perrot's memo-
rable Conciliation Parliament of 1585, in the Assem-
bly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646,
and in King James's own Parliament of May, 1689 ;
what members of those names were distinguished by
Royal Thanks in the Act of Settlement ; how far they
were nominated in King James's New Charters ; what
claims were preferred, and with what success, against
their confiscations at Chichester House in 1700; and
lastly, to a reasonable extent, their subsequent honours
and achievements in the exiled Brigades. This latter
designed portion has however been, as I indeed an-
ticipated in my Circular, considerably lessened by the
recent and continuing publication of Mr. O'Callaghan,
whose researches, diligence, and enthusiasm peculiarly

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PREFACE.

qualified him for the task. Of this my scope of illus-
trations, a Peer, of high literary attainments and of
the most active and practical nationality, was pleased
to write to me, "If the work is carried on according
to your plan, it will prove a most valuable compila-
tion, and be absolutely indispensable for the library
of every Irishman."

I calculated that the Illustrations should extend
from six hundred to eight hundred pages ; but, as-
sured as I might well feel by such a testimonial, that
the sale would be very extensive (at least one thou-
sand copies), I limited the price for subscribers to ten
shillings ; while I sought to indemnify myself against
possible loss in the outlay, and in probable though un-
designed defalcation in the collecting of small sums
from widely scattered and shifting subscribers (a
large number in America), by requiring that an in-
demnity of £200, irrespective of copies, should be
secured to me by those who felt nationally or indi-
vidually interested in the work. My collections for
this indemnity commenced in last March, and a List
for general subscribers was opened at the same time.
In June the Indemnity had reached only £100, and
not three hundred copies were engaged, when it was
my first thought to return the money so advanced
and abandon the project ; but, thinking such conduct

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might be considered a breach of faith with those
who had fulfilled their parts, I put the manuscript
in the printer's hands, limiting the impression to
five hundred copies, while the price remained unal-
tered. As the work progressed through the press, I
felt that I had much under-rated its extent ; my own
materials for the several memoirs would have far ex-
ceeded one thousand pages, yet was it not until much
of the book was printed off, that at p. 353 I felt
necessitated to commence the irksome labour of abridg-
ing and pruning the ensuing copy. It remains,
however, an overgrown volume. The payments to the
Indemnity are yet but £157 lis. ; the number of scat-
tered copies engaged, little more than four hundred.
Such are my especial grounds of disappointment.
Those to the cause I have felt more deeply.

I was too well aware of that destruction of the
genealogical archives of my country, which cam-
paigns of slaughter, confiscation, and persecution
had effected. Two great civil wars, the result of
misguided loyalty and ill-requited enthusiasm, having
involved and crushed, with relentless ruin, the native
aristocracies of each period, all Ireland became in
a manner forfeited from its old proprietors, subjected
as they were to a succession of parliamentary attain-
ders. The victims of this fatal policy, expatriated

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from the scenes of their hereditary history, were at
least eager, when they could, to carry with them its
records and memorials. They snatched up from the
libraries and monasteries and cabinets, the annals, the
muniments, the title-deeds of the land. They carried
them off as all of venerable that could then be saved
from the desolation that rioted over their homes.
They treasured them as the Penates of their early
attachment ; and, when they looked upon the moul-
dering fragments of these native documents, in the
respective lands of their exile, the remembrance of
their country was softened into melancholy endurance.
In all my circulars and otherwise, I sedulously la-
boured to discover such of these memorials as might
yet scantily exist, and solicited the inspection of any
ancient family manuscripts, pedigrees, diaries, or cor-
respondence, notes of well accredited tradition or local
memorials, that might be relevant to the times, and
could be afforded or obtained. They should explain,
strengthen, verify, and enrich my own notices ; iden-
tify the cavaliers and their descendants whom I
sought to record, and establish links of their respective
kindred. I thought the opportunity I thus afforded
of noting, as on record, what may otherwise be forever
lost, would be zealously embraced ; yet was my appeal
responded to only by the O'Donovan of Montpelier,

PREFACE.

Messrs. Hurley, Haly, O'Carroll-Dempster, Loughnan,
Browne of Moyne, and O'Keeffe. I was left to the
exclusive resources of my own manuscripts, and the
able and fortunately numerous genealogical publica-
tions of Sir Bernard Burke. If, therefore, my Illus-
trations could not be rendered complete, or if, yet
more, they are erroneous, blame should attach more to
those who withheld information within their know-
ledge, than to me who vainly sought it. I did not
profess to connect pedigrees, but only to preserve
scattered — undoubted links, and afford legal evi-
dence of their former existence. So anxious, however,
am I that these ' discerpta membra should be re-
connected and faithfully restored, that, while life is
spared to me, I shall gladly receive such ancient
family papers and vouchers as I heretofore sought,
test them by my own collections, and, embodying all
with what I have been obliged to withdraw from the
present work, I shall be able from the whole to digest
all that is relevant, and cast away surplusage. Or,
if so great a general labour is beyond attainment or
due encouragement, I shall give the results of partial
prompt communications, as addenda to the present
volume, or more gladly assign the whole to a publisher.

1 shall only take leave to add, that all the state-
ments in this volume are based upon pure authorities,

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and, as far as possible, are given in their language,
the native annals being chiefly adopted from the Four
Masters : and I confidently rely that the several
4 Illustrations ' herein develop scenes, events, and
doings of chivalrous loyalty, disinterested friendship,
and devoted love, such as the history of less stirring
times cannot afford. The names of the respective
actors are arranged in a copious Index.

JOHN D'ALTON.

48, Summer-hill, Dublin.
29th October, 1855.

ILLUSTRATIONS

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST (1689).

— ►H^w —

The Civil War, that commenced in Ireland in 1689,
and whose discomfited partisans, their broken fortunes
and attainted families, the ensuing pages are designed
to record, originated in bitter feelings, generated a
century and an half previously, when the relentless
arm of one, whom history has truly delineated a Eoyal
Despot, sought to enforce the religion of the Befor-
mation on that reluctant country. Happily, it is not
necessary nor fitting here to enter into unwelcome
controversy ; enough to rely upon the facts of his-
tory, and confidently to assert that in Ireland, legis-
lative persecution was pre-eminently directed to such
an object. The declaration of the king's supremacy,
the abolition of appeals to Rome, the conferring the
election to ecclesiastical preferments on the Crown,
(not only of bishoprics, but those of exclusively Roman
Catholic endowed abbeys, priories, and colleges) ; the
suppression of the principal religious establishments
on delusive surrenders, the confiscation and lay ap-
propriation of their revenues and possessions, created

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feelings of hostility to the English government, that
the progress of time but encreased. On Queen Mary's
accession, her parliament suspended the action of these
penal inflictions, — Queen Elizabeth restored them
with the superadded terrors of the Act of Uniformity.
This autocratic effort of bigotry was, it may be said,
allowed to sleep during her reign, but, in the times of
her successors, it was startled into vigorous operation.

The policy of James the First devised in 1613 a
new and more temporal grievance for the Irish peo-
ple ; — the Commission of Grace, as it was styled, which
abolished the old tenures of immemorial native use,
tanistry and gavelkind. The uncertain exactions,
theretofore imposed upon the tenantry, were, it is
true, thereby altered into certain annual rents and
free holdings, a change that would at first sight ap-
pear beneficial to the people ; but, when it is under-
stood that these Irish tenures gave occupants only a
life estate in their lands, and that, while these were
suffered to exist, no benefit whatsoever could accrue
to the crown on attainders ; whereas the new patents,
which this commission, as on defective titles, invited
the proprietors to take out, gave the fee to the king, the
old being for ever surrendered, they were obvious and
powerful securities, that, on any act as of constructive
treason, might absorb the whole interest from the
native tanists. At the same time fell upon the Irish
Catholic population, what the Protestant Bishop of
Leighlin and Ferns, in an official return of 1612,
designated, " the payment of double tithes and offer-

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ings, the one paid by them to us, and the other unto
their own Clergy."

In 1626, in the pecuniary exigencies of the ex-
chequer, King Charles was induced to proffer new
4 Graces,' as a consideration for liberal advances of
money from the Irish Roman Catholics. By this device
it was provided, that the taking of the oath of supremacy
should be dispensed with, and ecclesiastical exactions
be modified ; privileges which the Deputy Lord Falk-
land caused to be proclaimed over the country. His
successor, the unfortunate Lord Strafford, however,
having recommended their retrenchment, the King's
intentions were in point of fact but little attended to ;
and, while the Catholic members, who sat in the Par-
liament of 1640, relying on their fulfilment, joined in
voting the large supplies required, the King's letter
and the order for levying these subsidies contained
no recognition of the promised Graces. That Par-
liament adjourned on the 7th of August, 1641 ; and
it is not to be wondered, that the native Irish and
the whole Catholic population were thereupon too na-
tionally excited to an assertion in arms of privileges,
their King had promised — had actually fiated, but
which his Irish Viceroy refused to ratify. They saw
that King over-ruled, they felt that their altars were
denounced, their homes invaded, and their titles con-
founded by alleged defects and deceitful commissions.
The ensuing 21st of October witnessed the outbreak
of an insurrection, that bequeathed an inheritance of
jealousy and disunion to Ireland from that day. " We

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declare unto your Lordship," said the confederate
Catholics, in an address framed on the Hill of Tara,
to the Marquess of Clanricarde, " that the only scope
and purpose of our taking up arms is for the honour
of God, to obtain a free exercise of the ancient
Catholic Soman religion, so long and so constantly
adhered unto by us and our progenitors in this King-
dom, whereof we are threatened to be utterly deprived,
and from which nothing but death or utter extirpation
shall remove us. " The attainders and confiscations,
consequent upon this war, followed up as they were
with peculiar hostility by the Cromwellian adven-
turers, that were let in upon the island, heaped fresh
heart-burnings and unceasing discontent on the
Catholic party. On the final success of these invaders,
a body of from 30 to 40,000 Irish, plundered of their
estates, and unwilling to submit to the revolution-
ary government, left their country under different
leaders, and entered the service of France, Spain,
Austria, and Venice ; but ever still with the object
of aiding the exiled Stuarts, and promoting their re-
storation to sovereignty. Their services as such were
acknowledged on paper in a section of the Act of
Settlement (14 & 15 Car. 2, c. 2, s. 25). Some, as
" having, for reasons known unto us, in an especial
manner, merited our grace and favour ;" others, as
" having continued with us, or served faithfully under
our ensigns beyond the seas." But their loyalty to
that ungrateful and incompetent dynasty experienced
a thrilling disappointment, when the restoration of

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Charles restored nothing to them ; nay, worse, when
that King confirmed the grants certified for the ad-
venturers and soldiers of the usurper, while even his
brother, the Catholic Duke of York, the James the
Second of this work, obtained recognition patents for
276,000 acres, forfeited in various parts of Ireland by
the cavaliers, who, like those of the following " Army
List," fought and fell ''pro aris et focis! Loyalty to
such a King, the descendant of such a race, cannot
therefore be deemed the exclusive or even the para-
mount incentive of the resistance to King William.

In 1661, the Eoman Catholic Clergy of Ireland
preferred to the King their " Humble Eemonstrance,
Acknowledgment, Protestation, and Petition," wherein
they represented that, " being entrusted, by the indis-
pensable permission of the King of Kings, with the
cure of souls and the care of our flocks, in order to the
administration of the sacraments ; and teaching the
people that perfect obedience, which for conscience sake
they are bound to pay to your Majesty, we are yet
4 laden' with calumnies, and persecuted with severity/7
and they strongly deprecated " those calumnies, under
which our tenets in religion, and our dependence upon
the Pope's authority are aspersed ; and we humbly beg
your Majesty's pardon to vindicate both by the ensuing
protestation, which we make in the sight of heaven
and in the presence of your Majesty, sincerely and
truly, without equivocation or mental reservation."
The Remonstrance then proceeded to enlarge upon the
unmerited injuries inflicted upon themselves and their

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flocks, and prayed the royal protection,. This memo-
rial was accompanied by the " Faithful and Humble
Remonstrance of the Roman Catholic Nobility and
Gentry of Ireland," in which they set forth " the pro-
digious afflictions under which the monarchy of Great
Britain had, before his Majesty's happy Restoration,
groaned these twenty years ; and out of our sad
thoughts, which daily bring more and more sighs
from our breasts, and tears from our eyes, for the
still as yet continued miseries and sufferings of the
Catholic natives of this our unfortunate country, even
amidst, and ever since the so much famed joys and
triumphs of your Sacred Majesty's most auspicious
inauguration ;" and the Petitioners, referring to and
identifying themselves with the aforesaid Remonstrance
of the Clergy, then proceeded to vindicate themselves,
solemnly pledged their loyalty, and disclaimed any
power of the Pope to loosen their allegiance, or sanc-
tion their rebellion. It forms no inapt introduction
to the ' Army List,' here to give the names of those
laymen, who signed that protestation ; they will be
found in many instances identical, or at least of
kindred with those in the present record : —

Luke, Earl of Fingal ;
Morrough, Earl of Inchequin ;
Donogh, Earl of Clancarty ;
Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnel ;
Theobald, Earl of Carlingford ;
Edmund, Viscount Mountgar-
ret ;

Thomas, Viscount Dillon ;

Arthur, Viscount Iveagh ;
William, Viscount Clane ;
Charles Viscount Muskerry ;
William, Viscount TaafFe ;
Oliver, Baron of Louth ;
William, Baron of Castleconnell ;
Colonel Charles Dillon ;
Matthew Plunkett, Esq. ;

king james's irlsh army list.

Lieut. Col. Ignatius Nugent ;
Edward Plunkett, Esq. ;
Nicholas Plunkett, Knight ;
Matthew Plunkett of Dun-
sany ;

Christopher Plunkett of Dun-
sany ;

James Dillon, Knight ;

Colonel Christopher Bryan ;

Robert Talbot, Baronet ;

Ulick Burke, Baronet ;

Edward Fitzharris, Baronet ;

Valentine Browne, Baronet ;

Luke Butler, Baronet ;

Henry Slingsby, Knight ;

John Bellew, Knight ;

Colonel William Burke ;

Colonel John Fitzpatrick ;

Colonel Brian Mac Mahon ;

Colonel Miles Eeilly ;

Colonel Gilbert Talbot ;

Colonel Milo Power ;
Lieut. -Col. Pierce Lacy ;
Lieut. -Col. Ulick Bourke ;
Lieut.-Col. Thomas Scurlog ;
Jeffry Browne of Galway ;
John Walsh of Ballinvoher ;
Patrick Bryan ;
James Fitzgerald of Laccah ;
John Talbot of Malahide ;
Thomas Luttrell of Luttrells-
town ;

John Holy wood of Art ane ;
Henry, " son to Sir Phelim

O'Neill ;"
Dudley Bagnall of Dunleckney ;

Henry Draycott of Morning-
ton ;

Edward Butler of Monehire ;
Nicholas D'Arcy of Platten ;
Patrick Sarsfield of Lucan ;
John Mc Namara of Cratloe ;
James Talbot of Bellaconnell ;
Robert Balfe of Carrstown ;
James Talbot of Templeogue ;
Patrick Archer ;
Luke Dowdall of Athlumney ;
Philip Hore of Killsallaghan ;
J ames Barnwall of Bremore ;
James Allen of St. Wolstan's;
Thomas Cantwell of Bally-

makeidy ;
John Cantwell of Cantwell's-

court ;

Edmund Dillon of Streams-
town ;

John Fleming of Stahalmock ;
Peter Sherlock of Gracedieu ;
Christopher Archbold of Timo-
lin ;

Patrick Moore of Dowanstown ;
Nicholas Haly of Towrine ;
Pierce Butler of Callan ;
Pierce Butler of Killveagh-

legher ;
J ohn Segrave of Cabragh ;
Richard Wadding of Kilbarry ;
Thomas Browne of Clondmet-

roe ;

Oliver Cashel of Dundalk ;
Patrick Clinton of Irishtown ;
Captain Christopher Turner ;

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John Bagot ;
"William Grace ;
John Arthur of Hogstown ;
Marcus Laffan of Greystown ;
Christopher Aylmer of Balrath ;
James Plunket of Gibstown ;
Thomas St. John of Monks-
town ;

William Barry Oge of Rincor-
ran ;

Richard Strong of Rockwell's
Castle ;

J ames Butler of Ballinakill ;
Anthony Colclough ;

Thomas Sarsfield of Sarsfields-
town ;

Pierce ' Nangle ' of Monanimy ;
James Wolverston of Stillor-

gan;
Michael Bret ;

Patrick Boylan of Bally-turny-

mac-Oris ;
James White of Chambelly ;
Major Lawrence Dempsey ;
Captain Richard Dempsey ;
Edward Nugent of Culvin ;
Patrick Porter of Kingstown ;
Major Marcus Furlong.

During the life time of King Charles, in 1669,
eight years after the Restoration, his brother James,
Duke of York, conformed to the Roman Catholic
worship, being then aged 36. * In fifteen years after,
he succeeded to the Throne ; and his accession was
hailed by the great majority of the Irish people, very
naturally, as opening a fair prospect for their tolera-
tion and protection ; while he looked to their island
not less sanguinely, as the garrison of his creedsmen
and prop of his government. With the object of cor-
rectly ascertaining their feelings towards him, he sum-
moned those Irish officials, that he considered most
competent to advise him, to a meeting at Chester, in
1687. On the 27th August in that year he entered
this ancient city, where " he was received by the cor-
poration in their robes. He was afterwards splendidly

* Clarke's Memoirs of James II. vol. 1, p. 440, &c.

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entertained by them. He lodged at the Bishop's
Palace, from whence he walked next morning
(Sunday) through the City to the Castle (the Mayor
bare-headed, carrying the sword before him), heard
mass in the shire hall, and received the sacrament
according to the Eomish ritual, in the chapel in the
square tower of the Castle. On Monday he went to
Holywell ; on Tuesday returned to Chester ; and the
day following closeted several gentlemen, both of the
City and County, in order to prevail upon them to
approve of the repeal of the penal laws and Test Act ;
but he met with very little encouragement in that
way. On Thursday, September the first, the King left
Chester, not much satisfied with the disposition of the
people." * The English historian has made no men-
tion of the interview His Majesty had here with his
Irish officials ; but Tyrconnel, whom that King had
by his earliest exercise of the prerogative created an
Irish peer, was there, and in his suite were the Chief
Baron, Sir Stephen Rice ; the Chief Justice of the King's
Bench, Sir Thomas Nugent ; and other influential
individuals of the day, who will appear in subsequent
pages. These represented the state of Irish feeling to
be, as they thought it, in spirit and strength enthu-
siastically loyal.

In the preceding year, Tyrconnel had been ap-
pointed Viceroy of Ireland, from which time he had
devoted his attention to enrolling an army to uphold

* Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. 1, p. 211.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

his Royal master's cause. The result of his exertions
is preserved in a manuscript of the British Museum,
(Lansdowne Collections, No. 1152, p. 229) as follows.
The promotions of many, before the day of action,
may be traced on the ensuing Army List : —

" A LIST OF COMMISSIONS, received and delivered by Mr.
Sheridan since the Earl of Tyrconnel's coming Lord Deputy
of Ireland. February 12th, 168f, for the Lord Sunderland
till June 21st, 1687.

Anthony Hamilton, Colonel ;
Sir Neale O'Neille, Captain ;
Nicholas Purcell, Captain ;
William Nugent, Captain ;
William Hungate, Major ;
Theo. Russell, Colonel ;
Theo. Russell, Lieut.-Col.;
Walter Nugent, Captain ;
William Talbott, Major ;
George Newcomen, Captain ;
Walter Harvey, Captain ;
John Burk, Captain ;
Edward Fitzgerald, Captain ;
John Hamilton, Lieut.-Col. ;
Sir Charles Hamilton , Captain ;
Richard ' Cussack,' Captain-
Lieutenant ;
Symon Luttrell, Lieut.-Col. ;
Lord Kilkenny- West, Captain ;
Ullick Bourk, Captain ;
Francis Carroll, Major ;
James Netterville, Captain ;
Lord Mountjoy, Brigadier ;
John Gyles, Captain ;
Daniel Macarty, Captain ;

Sir Robert Gore, Captain ;
Robert Nangle, Captain.

COMMISSIONS OF HORSE.

Daniel O'Neill, Lieutenant ;
Ullick Burk, Lieutenant ;
George Barnewall, Cornet ;
Robert Grace, Capt. -Lieut. ;
Francis Meara, Lieutenant ;
Edmond Butler, Cornet ;
Edward Butler, Capt. -Lieut. ;
Walter Burke, Lieutenant ;
John Gaydon, Cornet ;
Robert Walsh, Cornet;
John Nugent, Cornet ;
John Nugent, Lieutenant ;
Henry Dillon, Lieutenant ;
Rene Mezandier, Lieutenant ;
Arthur Magennis, Cornet ;
Francis Hamilton, Lieutenant;
Francis Preston, Cornet ;
James Purcell, Cornet ;
George Gernon, Lieutenant.

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COMMISSIONS OF FOOT.

Henry Edgeworth, Lieut. ;
Hugh O'Rourk, Lieutenant ;
William Netterville, Lieut. ;
John Dungan, Lieutenant ;
Jeffrey Connell, Ensign ;
Thomas Luttrell, Ensign ;
Beverley Newcomen, Ensign ;
Francis Slingsby, Lieutenant ;
Charles Manley, Lieutenant ;
Thomas Colt, Lieutenant ;
Anthony Malone, Lieutenant ;
Richard Barnewall, Ensign ;
Richard Plunkett, Lieut. ;
Con. O'Neill, Lieutenant;
John Talbott, Lieutenant;
David. Lundy, Ensign ;
John Talbott, Ensign ;
Arthur Fitton, Lieutenant ;
Flo. Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant ;
Thomas Talbott, Ensign ;
Edwd. Kindellan, Capt.-Lieut.;
Christopher Barnewall, Lieut.;
Thomas Clayton, Ensign ;
Andrew Dorrington, Ensign ;
Mountjoy Blount, Ensign ;
Nicholas Tyrwhitt, Lieutenant ;
Edmond Keating, Ensign ;
Patrick Cheevers, Ensign ;
Charles Stuart, Ensign ;
Richard Bellew, Ensign ;
Henry Sheridan, Ensign ;
John Delahyde, Lieutenant ;
Daniel O'Sullivan, Lieutenant ;
Robert Russell, Lieutenant ;
John Macartane, Ensign ;
Michael ' Cussack,' Ensign ;

John Bellew, Ensign;
Edmund Reyley, Ensign ;
George Darcy, Ensign ;
John White, Lieutenant ;
James Tobyn, Ensign;
John Butler, Ensign ;
Geo. Haughton, Capt. -Lieut. ;
John Reynolds, Capt.-Lieut. ;
John Hogan, Lieutenant ;
Benjamin Tychborne, Ensign ;
Pierce Butler, Ensign ;
Nicholas Rooth, Ensign ;
Andrew Browne, Ensign ;
James Magee, Ensign ;
John Wogan, Ensign ;
Richard Barnewall, Lieut. ;
George Talbot, Lieutenant ;
Thomas Dongan, Ensign ;

Bulkley, Ensign ;

Hugh O'Neill, Ensign ;
William Sheridan, Ensign.

COMMISSIONS WHICH PAID IN
ENGLAND.

Rowland Smith, Captain ;
John Roche, Cornet.

COMMISSIONS EXCHANGED, FOR
WHICH NO FEES PAID.

Jos. Jackman, Lieutenant ;
Sir Thomas Atkins, Lieut. ;
Christopher Nugent, Lieut. ;
Toby Purcell, Major ;
Mark Talbott, Major ;

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James Bryan, Ensign ;
Lord Limerick, Capt. Horse ;
Matt. Bellew, Lieut. Horse ;
Silvester Mathews, Ensign ;
David Lundy, Ensign ;
Daniel O'Neill, Lieutenant ;
Phil. Terrett, Lieutenant ;
Morgan Floyd, Captain ;
Colonel Grace, Governor of

Athlone ;
Colonel Grace, Captain ;

Arundell, Captain ;

Edward Butler, Captain ;
Randall Plunkett, Lieutenant ;
James Bryan, Ensign (erased

in the original) ;
John Taaffe, Captain.

king's letters delivered.
Lord Chancellor ;
Attorney General ;
Lord Lowth ;
Sir William Talbot;
Colonel Hamilton ;
Lord Netterville ;
Lord Bellew ;
Symon Luttrell ;
Lord Chief Baron Rice ;
Sir Harry Lynch ;
Justice Martin ;
Lord Viscount Gallway ;
Colonel ' Moor.'

COMMISSIONS NOT DELIVERED,
STOPPED, OR RECALLED, ETC.

Henry Sheridan, Ensign ;
Thomas Purcell, Ensign ;

John White, Lieutenant ;
Eustace White, Lieutenant ;
Lord Kilkenny- West, Capt. ;
James Butler, Cornet ;
J ohn Power, Lieutenant ;
Daniel Macnamara, Ensign ;
Hugh 0' ' Roirk,' Lieut. ;
William Usher, Lieutenant ;
Calla. Mc Callahan, Cornet ;
John Delahide, Ensign ;

Bryan, Ensign ;

Stafford, Ensign ;

Thos. Nugent, Ensign ;

Fleming, Lieut. Horse ;

Burk, Lieut. Horse ;

Townley, Cornet ;

Richard Butler, Cornet ;
John Nugent, Lieut. Horse ;
Arthur Dillon, Lieut. Horse ;
Henry Dillon, Lieut. Horse ;
Roger Jeffryes, Cornet.

LETTERS NOT DELIVERED.

Colonel Richard Butler ;
Dean Manby.

added in another hand.

Sum due _ _ _ . £547 2 0
Sum returned _ _ _ _ 507 1 7

For return 39 6 5

For my Lord 394 4 3

Us 73 18 4

Clerks 26 0 0

Signett Office 13 13 0

Sum, £547 2 0

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THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONS DELIVERED OF EACH KIND.

25 Colonels, Lieut. -Colonels, Majors, Captains, and Brigadiers.
12 Lieutenants of Horse.

8 Cornets.
25 Lieutenants of Foot.
34 Ensigns."

Ill the April of 1687, Tyrconnel had been com-
missioned, to select influential persons throughout the
several counties in Ireland, to aid the Commissioners
of the Eevenue in collecting subsidies for the support
of the state. The return of these, so appointed, as
well as the above inchoate list, were doubtless laid
before King James at Chester by Tyrconnel, when
that monarch, still King of Great Britain, France
and Ireland, devolved upon him the responsibility of
supporting his royal authority in the latter king-
dom, and of directing the zeal and energies of its
people to his service ; and, notwithstanding all they
had so recently lost in upholding the Stuarts, they
rendered to Tyrconnel, says Colonel O'Kelly, in the
" Exddium Macarice" not only the number of soldiers
which he had demanded, equipped at their private cost,
but every further aid that either their fortunes or their
influence could furnish." The consummation of their
labours was the Army List now presented to the public.

The copy here published is preserved in the Manu-
scripts of Trinity College, Dublin, where it is classed
F. 1, 14. It extends over thirty-four pages octavo.
On the two first are the names of all the Colonels ;

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on the four following are the Rolls of the Eight Regi-
ments of Horse ; on the next four are the Eolls of
the six of Dragoons. The remaining twenty-four
record the Infantry. The officers of each company
are arranged in columns headed respectively Cap-
tains, Lieutenants, Cornets or Ensigns, and Quarter-
Masters. Under that of Captains, the Colonels,
Lieutenant-Colonels, and Majors, are usually classed.
Under the others, the entries appear seriatim, and
in line, as this list was then filled up. It bears no
date, but while, on inspecting many of the original
commissions, some few, as that of Captain George
Chamberlain, are of December, 1688 ; and a great
number on the 8th of March, being near the close of
that year, but four days before the King's landing at
Kinsale ; others are of later appointment, as that of
James Carroll, to a Captaincy in Lord Dongan's
Dragoons, is of the 30th of July following. It would
therefore seem to have been closed, in its present
state, about the August of 1689, and before the whole
force was completed. The only point that could
militate with such an assignment of date, is the fact
of Richard Talbot being described upon it as an Earl,
whereas his patent to the Dukedom was granted on
the 10th of July in that year ; but its having been
a current and continuing muster may account for
this. On this list the Horse had the highest pay,
and were therefore classed first of the Cavalry. The
Dragoons, having to do duty on foot as well as on
horseback, were lighter troops than the Horse in these

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times.* The three first of the Horse Regiments, viz. :
TyrconneFs, Galmoy's, and Sarsfield's, had each nine
troops with fifty-three men in each troop ; the five
last had each six troops, with the same complement of
men in each. Three of the Dragoons, viz. : Lord
Dongan's, the first, Sir Neill O'Neill's, the second, and
Colonel Simon Lnttreli's, the fourth, had each eight
troops with sixty men in each ; the remainder had
six troops in each regiment, and sixty men in each
troop. f The regiments of Infantry had thirteen com-
panies in each, and sixty-three men in each company.
The levies were conducted with snch enthusiasm, that
the force in this list was raised, armed, and clothed in
less than six weeks,J and may be truly said to com-
prise scions of the whole aristocracy of Ireland at that
period, as well of the native Irish septs as of the
Anglo-Irish.

As the Colonels of the establishment are subse-
quently given, each at the head of his regiment, it
would be idle to display their names here, with the
exception of the two first,- to whom no regiments are
assigned in this list, viz. : Lord Viscount Dover, and
the Duke of Berwick ; and that of Colonel Thomas
Maxwell, no detail of whose regiment is given, but
who is fully noticed at the close of the Dragoons'
Regiments.

* Macaria? Excidium, p. 441, note.

f Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 97.

+ Story's Impartial History, pp. 5 & 6.

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HENRY LORD VISCOUNT DOVER,

Colonel of the First Troop of Guards.

This Henry Jermyn, brother of Lord Thomas Jer-
myn of St. Edmundsbury, was himself, in 1685,
created a peer, as Lord Jermyn of Dover ; and, in
deference to his elder brother (while he lived), was
usually styled Lord Dover, and so sworn of the
English Privy Council in 1686 ; at which period it
was rumoured he was to be appointed Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, in place of the Earl of Clarendon.* In
1687, he was nominated a Lord of the English Treasury,
and in 1688, a short time before the king's abdication
in that country, he was especially selected and con-
firmed by his Majesty's will, executed at Whitehall
in the commencement of that year, the confidential
adviser of the Queen. He afterwards facilitated the
escape of James, and was one of the few, who accom-
panied the royal exile to France and subsequently to
Ireland. While yet at sea, in the latter movement,
he addressed a letter " to the Corporation of Castle-
haven, or any other place where the Captain (Major
General Boisselau) may land." " Gentlemen," (it
is copied from the original, in possession of the
O'Donovan) " From aboard the King of France's ship,
here upon the Irish coast for the service of his Ma-
jesty of England, with all sorts of ammunition and

* Singer's Correspondence, v. 2, pp. 10 & 25.

LORD VISCOUNT DOVER.

necessaries, and myself here commanding the King's
forces on board. I send Captain la Rue and another
to learn what news you can inform us of ; therefore,
pray send us, with all speed you possibly can, all the
news you know, both of the King and the enemy's
fleet, that we may govern ourselves accordingly.
Gentlemen, your humble servant, Dover." (No date.)
In July, 1689, he was joined in commission for the
Irish Treasury with Tyrconnel, Lord Riverston, and
Sir Stephen Rice ; while his name appears in this
Army List, Colonel as above ; his Troop of Horse,
Gards du Corps, consisting of 200 men,* but none
of his subalterns appear hereon. Yiscount Dover,
not being a Peer of Ireland, had no seat in the
Parliament of 1689, and seems to have early taken
offence or distrusted James's cause ; for on the 19th
of June, 1690, eleven days before the battle of the
Boyne, he applied to Mr. George Kirke, (the well-
known Major-General) " You will be much surprised
to receive a letter from me ; but, after the many
revolutions we have seen in our time, nothing is to
be wondered at." He then requests Kirke to use his
interest with Marshal de Schomberg, " to obtain a
pass for my Lady Dover, myself, and the little vessel
we shall go in, and those few servants specified in the
within note, to go and stay at Ostend, till such time
as I may otherwise dispose of myself." As King
William appeared unwilling to accede to this prayer,

* Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 398.

t Clarke1 s Correspondence, MS. T.C.D.Lett. xiv.

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on account of Lord Dover being excepted out of the
Act of Indemnity, and also outlawed in "Westminster
Hall, he, on the 12th of July, after the battle of the
Boyne, wrote to obtain the interest of a Captain Fitz-
gerald, to procure a similar passport from King Wil-
liam, " to enable me to go and end my days quietly
in England, in which place I will most certainly never
more meddle with any affairs whatever, but my own
little particular ones."* Another letter of his lord-
ship, in the same collection, contains a perfect narra-
tive of his life, stating that he had " served King-
James faithfully, since he was thirteen years old, till
the French thought fit he should not do it any
longer." From the context, it would appear that
Lord Dover had incurred some taunts from the
French allies, and, possibly, displeasure from James.
He was soon afterwards allowed to transport himself
to Flanders, till a fitting time came for his admittance
to England, whither Lady Dover and her servants had
a free pass.

He died on the 6th April, 1708, at Cheveley in
Leicestershire ; but his remains were interred, at his
own desire, in the Carmelite Convent of Bruges,
where his funeral monument ranks him " a Lieu-
tenant-G eneral in the army, Colonel of a troop of King
James's Horse Guards, and Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Cambridge."! On his death, without issue,

* Southwell MSS. Catal., p. 140.

| Nichofs Top. and Gen., part 12, p. 493.

THE DUKE OF BERWICK.

his title became extinct, and his estates devolved
upon his nieces, the daughters of the aforesaid Baron
Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury.

THE DUKE OF BERWICK,

Colonel of the Second Troop of Guards.

Such was the title, which, in deference to the bor-
der town, that had for centuries been the great object
of many a hard-fought day, James the Second, the
son of a Scotto-English monarch, conferred upon
James Fitz-James, his eldest but illegitimate son by
Arabella Churchill, sister of John Churchill, after-
wards the renowned Duke of Marlborough. He was
born in 1671. In 1686 he distinguished himself at
the siege of Buda, and in March, 1687, was created
Baron of Bosworth, Earl of Tinmouth, and Duke
of Berwick ; his father being then King of Eng-
land. He was the companion of that father,
when, having escaped from the Guards at Rochester,
he crossed to France in a small boat, and landed at
Ambleteuse, at six o'clock on Christmas morning
(1688). The Duke was instantly despatched thence,
by the Royal Exile, to Louis XIV., then at Ver-
sailles, to pray an asylum in his kingdom. "J'en
fus recu," says the Duke, in his narrative of that in-
terview, " avec toute la politesse et l'amitie imagina-
bles ; et il etoit aise de voir par ses discours, que son

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coeur parloit autant que sa langue."* Confiding on
that reception, King James embarked for Ireland,
where, on his arriving and learning the state of Ulster,
he ordered Berwick off to strengthen General Eichard
Hamilton on the east side of the Ban, in his design
on Coleraine, as well as to sound the state of political
feeling in Deny. Of this he formed a very mistaken
notion, writing as he did in April, 1689, to his Royal
Sire, advising him that it was the opinion of all the
General Officers, that " if his Majesty would but
show himself before that town, it would undoubtedly
surrender." The expectation was, however, ill-
grounded ; and, on the avowed determination of the
garrison to hold out, James, who had gone before the
town in this assurance, returned discountenanced to
Dublin, to make the necessary arrangements for hold-
ing his parliament.f Berwick remained with but
6,000 men, and only six guns, opposed to a garrison
of 10,000 men, with from twenty to thirty pieces of
cannon, and an English fleet of thirty sail in the
river, with arms, ammunition, provisions, and three
regiments on board, under the command of Major
General Kirke, commissioned to relieve the place. J
While the siege was going on, the Duke encountered
a large body of the Enniskilliners ; on whom, how-
ever, he made no impression. After the raising of
the siege, being stationed at Newry with 1700 foot

* ' Memoir ' in Clarke's James II.

t Clarke's Life of James II., v. 2, p. 332.

j O'Callaghan on the Excidium Macarise, pp. 320-1.

THE DUKE OF BERWICK.

and dragoons, and two troops of horse ; and, designing
to defend that pass against Schomberg, who had
landed a few days previously at Carrickfergns, he
is said by Story,* to have sent a letter by a trumpe-
ter to that Marshal on the 1st of September, he being
then in Belfast. This communication, being directed
only to 1 Count ' Schomberg, was returned unopened,
that officer saying his Royal Master had 'honoured
him with the title of Duke, and therefore the letter
was not to him.f At the close of the same year,
(1689) in February, Berwick meditated taking pos-
session of Belturbet, " with the expectation of being
able to make excursions thence into the enemy's
quarters all the winter ; but Wolseley, King Wil-
liam's Colonel, suspecting his design, marched out
of the town with a considerable body of Horse and
Foot, when meeting Berwick's forces at Tullaghmon-
gan, near Cavan, he forthwith attacked them ; and,
although the Duke behaved himself with great con-
duct and bravery, having his horse shot under him,
yet was he worsted in the action, and the town was
fired by his enemy."

Berwick was afterwards at the battle of the Boyne,
where the troop under his command consisted of
two hundred strong. There also " his horse was shot
under him, and, as he lay for some time amongst the
enemy, he was rode over and ill-bruised, until by the
help of a trooper he was got off again. "J After that

* Impartial Review, part 1, p. 11. f Idem.

t Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 400.

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battle the Duke rallied, at Brazeel near Dublin, about
7,000 infantry ; of which he sent to acquaint his
Royal father in that city, requesting that a convoy of
Horse and Dragoons should be sent out to enable him
to come in. The king accordingly ordered out six
troops of Luttrell's Dragoons, and three of Aber-
corn's Horse to his relief ; but night had dissolved
the force which Berwick hoped to keep together —
they had all dispersed. During the first siege of
Limerick, (August, 1690) by King William in person,
" the Irish Cavalry, 3,500 strong, commanded by the
Duke of Berwick, guarded the right bank of the Shan-
non, and prevented the English from investing or even
sending detachments to that side, although the river
was fordable in many places."* When that siege was
abandoned, and Tyrconnel passed over to his King to
France, " he," writes Colonel O'Kelly in the Excidium
Macarice (p. 72), " established a new form of govern-
ment in his absence, never before heard of in Ireland ;
twelve 4 Senators ' were named to manage the civil
affairs, the major part being new-interest men, without
whose concurrence the rest could not act. The
army he placed under the command of the Duke of
Berwick, and, in regard his youth gave him little ex-
perience, (he had not then attained 21 years) he ap-
pointed a select council of officers to direct him ;
the Duke having " as Colonel O'Kelly, who was no
friendly commemorator of Tyrconnel, insinuates, " his

* O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 117.

THE DUKE OF BERWICK.

private directions to permit no person of quality to
come out of Ireland in his absence, who would be
likely to oppose his representations at the Court of St.
G-ermains."

The vessel, that was to take Tyrconnel out of
Galway, was scarcely out of sight, when the young
Duke, at the head of 4,000 foot, 2000 men at arms,
and as many light horse, passed the Shannon and
attacked the Castle of Birr ; but " on an alarm of the
enemy's advance to relieve the place, he decamped,
and never stopped till he crossed the Shannon back
again, returning with his troops into Connaught ;
having, (adds Colonel O'Kelly) by that successless
attempt and his shameful retreat, discouraged the
army, and disheartened the whole nation of Ireland."
O'Conor, a later historian of the military memoirs of
this country, says, " Berwick's operations, during the
absence of Talbot, were directed by the Hamiltons,
conducted without skill, and disheartened the Irish" *
He was of course attainted, but not until five years
after the close of that war, of which he has left the
best account, embodied in Clarke's Life of James the
Second, f In 1693, Berwick, who had passed to France
after the surrender of Limerick, was taken prisoner in
the engagement near Liege, by his uncle, the Duke of
Marlborough ; and in 1695 he married the widow of
Sarsfield, who, as hereafter mentioned, fell at Landen
in 1693. She was the lady Honora de Burgo, second

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 130.
t Idem, p. 237.

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daughter of William, the seventh Earl of Clanricarde.
In the chapel of the Castle of St. Germains the cere-
mony took place, which she survived but three years,
dying of consumption at Montpelier.

In 1696, when James, under a delusive impression
that the Prince of Orange's affairs began not to have
so favourable an aspect as formerly, meditated ob-
taining forces from the French King for invading
England; the Duke of Berwick was secretly sent over
to London to sound the public feeling, — again with ill
success. The continent was destined to be the theatre
of his own future actions and renown. The brigaded
Regiment of Foot, formed in France and styled by his
name was distinguished in the Italian campaign of
1701 ; when, with Galmoy's, Burke's and Dillon's, and
with Sheldon's Horse, it formed part of the army that
was led on by the Duke of Savoy at the engagement near
Chiari. In 1703, it was incorporated in the Brigade
of Piedmont,* and actively engaged in its conflicts, f
In 1704, the three Kegiments, Berwick's, Dillon's, and
Galmoy's, mounted the trenches at Vercelli, Ivrea, and
Verrua in Italy. In the May of that year, military
operations commenced in the Spanish Peninsula, by
the entrance of a Spanish and French army under
King Philip and the Duke of Berwick respectively,
at Salvatierra. In 1705, Berwick's Regiment, together
with Burke's and Fitzgerald's (formerly Albemarle's),
was engaged in all the battles which marked the

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 2f>2. t Idem, p. 2G5, 273.

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valour and skill of the two great commanders, Eugene
and Vendome, who headed the united armies.* The
Brigade, thus concentrated, was called Burke's, com-
manded as it was by Brigadier-General Ulick Burke,
and did wonderful execution at the battle on the Ke-
torto and Adda, which O'Conor describes as " the
fiercest contest that occurred during the seventeenth
century." A second battalion, which was raised at
Arras for Berwick's Eegiment at the latter period, was
ordered to Spain, and in 1706 performed important
services theref , as it did at the battle of Almanza, in
April, 1707. Berwick himself on the latter occasion
" led his cavalry to the charge, and utterly broke the
mixed line of the allies, so that the fate of the day re-
mained no longer doubtful." J " His presence of
mind," adds O'Conor, " was admirable ; as cool, as
calm as he would be at a review, he provided for
every emergency ; wherever the line yielded, he
brought up troops from other posts to sustain it ; he
was every where, leading on, encouraging and exhort-
ing the Spaniards in their own, and the French and
Irish in the respective languages of their countries."
Immediately after this splendid victory, which turned
the tide of war against the allies, he was made a
Spanish Grandee by Philip the Fifth. In the same
year, at the siege of Lerida, " one of the strongest
fortresses in Europe, the Kegiments of Burke, Dillon,

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 299.
fldem, p. 318. \ Idem, p. 329.

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and Berwick were distinguished ; on the 4th of
October, their trenches were opened, Berwick's,
Burke's, and Dillon's Regiments mounted them, the
fortress and citadel surrendered." * In 1708, two bat-
talions of Berwick's, with Grafton's " Irish Dragoons,"
and Bulkeley's Irish Regiment of Foot in the service
of Spain, formed part of the besieging army at Tortosa.
On this occasion, " the Regiment of Berwick suffered
severely, having mounted the trenches several nights ;
the Lieutenant-Colonel and several officers and men
were killed ; and, after twenty-one days' siege, the
place surrendered upon honourable terms." f In the
July of this year, Berwick himself, being encamped
near Douay, received a letter from his illustrious op-
ponent and uncle, the Duke of Marlborough, wherein
the latter, perfectly recognizing the kindred, says, 4 You
may be sure the difference of parties will not hinder
me from having that friendship for you that becomes
me towards my relations.' J In the early part of 1709,
Burke's, Dillon's, and Berwick's Regiments served in
Spain under the Marshal de Biron ; as they did in
1711 in Savoy, under the Marshal Duke of Berwick ;
but, " from inferiority of forces, he was obliged to
abandon that country, and confine himself to guard
the passes of the Alps into Dauphiny. It is to his
character and achievements at this period, and the war
in which he encountered his own uncle, the Duke of
Marlborough, that Montesquieu thus alludes, " Telle

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 335.

| Idem, p. 337. { Murray's Marlborough Desp., v. 4, p. 113.

THE DUKE OF BERWICK.

fut l'etoile de cette Maison de Churchill, qu'il en sor-
tit deux hommes, dont Tun, dans le meme temps,
tilt destine a ebranler, et Taut re a soutenir, les deux
grandes monarchies de l'Europe."

Berwick was killed at the siege of Philpsburg in
Baden, 12th June, 1734 ; leaving by his aforesaid
wife, the Lady Honora de Burgh (who died in 1698,
and was buried at Pontoise, near Paris) one son,
James Edward Francis, who was created by Philip
the Fifth, Duke of Liria and Gherica, and a Grandee
of Spain of the first class ; he married Catherine, the
daughter and heiress of Pierre Duke of Veragas orVeras
Aquas in Spain ; in whose right he also bore that title ;
and, being sent ambassador from Philip to his son Don
Carlos, King of the Two Sicilies, he died at Naples in
1738, leaving issue by her, two sons, the eldest James,
Duke of Berwick and Liria, Grandee of Spain, and
General in the Spanish service, (who was father of
Charles B. Pascal Janvier Fitzjames, Marquis of
Jamaica, baptised 1751;) and the second son, Duke
Peter Fitzjames, called in Spain Don Pedro, who was
an admiral in that service. He married the heiress of
Castelblanco, and had issue. The old Duke of Ber-
wick had, on the decease of his first wife, married Miss
Buckley, one of the maids of Honor to Queen Mary
d'Este, and by her had five children : James, who died
without issue in the lifetime of his father ; Francis,
who rose to eminence in the Church ; Henry, who also
entered into holy orders ; Charles, who succeeded to
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the present Duke is descended ; and Maria, married
to the Duke of Mirandola, a Spanish Grandee of the
first class.* The English Dukedom of Berwick had
been forfeited on the attainder, though the title was
used by the great Duke in his life-time, and sometimes
by his descendants, who continued to be successively
Colonels of his Brigade, until it was disbanded
at the Revolution. The Spanish branch still retains
its rank and estates.

At the battle of Ypres, in 1745, the still Irish names
of the hilled in Berwick's Regiment are Captains
Burke, Nangle, Anthony, Cooke, and Higgins ; while,
in the list of the wounded, appear Captain Colclougli,
and Lieutenants Plunket, Carroll, Mac Carthy, and
Dease.f

In 1792, there were in garrison at London, of
Berwick's ci-devant Regiment, Lieutenant- Colonels
O'More and Mac Dermott.

Captains: — O'Connor, Bryan O'Toole, Richard
O'Toole, — O'Gormican, — Cruise, — Reed, — Egan,
William O'Mara, Thaddeus O'Mara, John Geoghegan,
— Hurly, — Tuite, — Swinton, — Delany, — Gregory,
and Byrne.

Lieutenants: — D'Alton, — Kavanagh, — Forbes, —
Grace, — Mulhall, — O'Kennedy, — Garrett Fitzsimons,
— Blake, Richard O'Byrne, — D'Evereux, — Geraglity,

* Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England, v. 4, p. 490.
t Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 270.

counties' assessment.

— Doyle, — Nagle, Patt Piersse, and Gerard Piersse.

Sub-Lieutenants: — O'Sullivan, — MacCarthy, Pat
Jennings, Luke Allen, Andrew Elliott, Morris
Cameron. While on the French Army List of 1792,
the staff of this ci-devant French Kegiment numbered
still in the French service : —

Colonel — O'Connor.

Lieutenant-Colonels: — Hurly and Shee.

Captains : — S wanton, — Hussey, — MacCormick, —
Doyle, — Eoberts, — Nagle, — Delany, Martin Hart,
Andrew Mac Donough, — Reed, — Burke, Marcus
Laffan, and — O'Flynn.

Lieutenants: Luke Allen, — Merle, — D'Alton, —
Burke, — Meagher, — Fleming, — Prior, — Nagle, —
Pavel, — Houdart, — Derenzy, Eugene Chancel, and
Shee.

Sub-Lieutenant — Nestor Chancel.

This seems the most apt place to introduce the
genealogical evidences, that arise from a commission
of the 10th April, 1690, which King James issued for
applotting £20,000 per month on personal estates
and the benefit of trade and traffic, " according to the
ancient custom of this Kingdom used in time of dan-
ger." Of this tax he appointed the following assessors
in the several counties, &c.

For the City and County of Dublin ; The Lord
Mayor and Sheriff of the city for the time being,
Garret Dillon, Esq. Recorder ; Simon Luttrell, Esq.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Governor of the city ; Sir Thomas Hackett, Sir Wil-
liam Ellis, Thomas Whitehead, Lewis Doe, and Thomas
Browne, Esq. Their applotment on the city to be
£5,000 for the three months.

For the County of Dublin ; The High Sheriff for
the time being ; Simon Lnttrell, Esq. Lord Lieutenant
of the County ; Colonel Patrick Sarsfield, (John Tal-
bot of Belgard, Esq. Captain Robert Arthur, Captain
Robert Russell, James Hackett, Esq. Christopher
Massy, Esq. and Ignatius Purcell, Esq. Their applot-
ment to be £2,391 6s. 9d. for the three months.

For the County of Kildare ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. ; Sir Patrick Trant, Baronet ; Charles White,
Esq. Colonel Charles Moore, Wm. Talbot, John Wogan,
Francis Leigh, Esqs. the Sovereign of the Naas pro
temp, and Edmund Fitzgerald, Esq. Their applot-
ment, £1,643 5s. 3d. for the three months.

For the County of Carlow ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. ; Colonel Dudley Bagnall, John Bagot Junior,
Patrick Wall, Pierce Bryan, Marcus Baggot, Hubert
Kelly, Esqs. the Sovereign of Carlow pro temp, and
William Coolie, Esq. Their applotment, £726 19s. 3d.
for the three months.

For the King's County ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Garret Moore, Esq. Colonel Francis Oxburgh,
Terence Coghlan, John Coghlan of Tullamore, Edward
Baggott, Owen Carroll, Henry Oxburgh, Garret
Trant, Esqs. Their applotment to be £860 17s. 6d.
for the three months.

For the Queen's County ; The High Sheriff pro

COUNTIES ASSESSMENT.

temp. Sir Patrick Trant, Baronet, Sir Gregory Byrne,
Edward Morris, Oliver Grace, Thady Fitzpatrick,
Daniel Doran, John Weaver and John Warren, Esqs.
Their applotment, £956 10s. 9d. for the three
months.

For the County of Longford ; The High Sheriff,
pro temp., Oliver Fitzgerald, Esq., Thomas Nugent of
Colamber, John Nugent of Killasonna, Eobert Sans,
Francis Ferrall, Robert Farrell, and Eobert Dowling,
Esqs. Their applotment to be £573 18s. 3d.

For the County of Meatli ; The High Sheriff pro
temp., Sir Patrick Barnewall, Sir William Talbot,
Baronet, Sir John Fleming, Thomas Bellew, Henry
Draycott, John Hatch, Adam Crane, and Eichard
Barnewall, Esqs. Their applotment, £2,793 2s. for
the three months.

For the County of Westmeath ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Garret Nugent of Dysart, Edmund Malone,
Garret Nangle, William Handcock, James Dease,
Keadagh Geoghegan, George Peyton, and Eichard
Fitzgerald, Esqs. Their applotment, £1,434 16s.
for the three months.

For the City of Kilkenny ; The Mayor, Eecorder^
and Sheriffs pro temp., Walter Lawless, Henry Archer,
Luke Dormer, James Eafter, and John Shee, Esqs.
Their applotment, £190 17s. 6d. for the three months.

For the County of Kilkenny ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Walter Butler, Colonel Edward
Butler, John Grace, Marcus Shee, Harvey Morris, Esqs.
The Sovereign of Callan^rc temp. Edmund Blanch ville,

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Esq. and the Portreef of Gowran pro temp. Their
applotment, £1,932 4s. 3d. for the three months.

For the County of Wexford; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Walter Butler, Patrick Colclough,
Walter Talbot, William Howe, Patrick Lambert,
Anthony Talbot, Matthew Forde, and Patrick White,
Esqs. Their applotment, £1,434 16s. for the three
months.

For the County of WicMow ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Francis Toole, Wm. Talbot of Fassaroe, Ph.
Cowdel], Wm. Wolverston, William Hoey, Cromwell
Wingfield, Esquires, and Thomas Byrne, Burgess of
Wicklow. Their applotment, £688 14s. 3d. for the
three months.

For the County of Louth ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Sir Patrick Bellew, John Cheever, Roger Gernon,
Esqs. John Babe, Henry Townley, Patrick Dowdall,
and Nicholas Gernon, Esquires. Their applotment,
£994 16s. for the three months.

For the Town of Drogheda ; The Mayor, Recorder,
and Sheriffs pro temp. Thomas Peppard Fitz-George,
Christopher Peppard Fitz-Ignatius, Patrick Plunket,
Alderman, and John Moore. Their applotment,
£210 9s. 3d. for the three months.

For the County of Limerick ; The High Sheriff
pjro temp. Sir Joseph Fitzgerald, Dominick Roche,
John Bourk of Cahirmoyle, John Rice of Hospital,
Edward Rice, John Baggott Senior, Henry Wray,
Thaddeus Quinn, and George Evans, Esqs. Their ap-
plotment, £1,932 Is. 3d. for the three months.

counties' assessment.

For the City of Limerick ; The Mayor, Recorder,
and Sheriffs pro temp. Sir James G-alway, Baronet,
J ohn Mc Namara, John Rice Fitz-Edward, Robert
Herman, and John Leonard, Esqs. Their applotment,
£382 12s. 3d. for three months.

For the County of Cork ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Daniel O'Donovan, Daniel O'Snllivan Bear,
Daniel Mc Carthy Reagh, Nicholas Brown, Esq. Sir
John Mead, Knight, Sir James Cotter, Knight, Miles
Conrsey, Charles Mc Carthy alias Mc Donogh, Edward
Fitzgerald of Ballyverter, Dominick Sarsfield, David
Nagle, John G-alway, Martin Supple, Esqs. the Mayor,
Recorder, and Sheriffs of the City of Cork pro temp.
Andrew Morrogh, Stephen Gold, John Longan, Ed-
ward G-ough, Esqs., the Mayor of Youghal pro temp,
the Sovereign of Kinsale pro temp, the Sovereign of
Mallow pro temp, the Sovereign of Charleville pro
temp, and John Power of Kellballer, Esq. Their
applotment, £683 lis. for the three months.

For the City of Waterford ; The High Sheriff
pro temp., the Earl of Tyrone, Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas Nugent, Matthew How, John Nugent, Richard
Marsfield, Thomas Sherlock, Pierce Walsh, and Nicho-
las Power, Esqs. Their applotment for the three
months, £1,262 12s. 9d.

For the County and City of Waterford ; The
Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs pro temp., Richard
Fitz-Gerald, Michael Porter, Michael Head, and James
White, Esqs. Their applotment, £382 12s. 3d. for
the three months.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

For the County of Clare; The High Sheriff pro temp.,
Sir Donogk O'Brien, John Mc Namara of Cratelogh,
Donogh O'Brien of Duogk, Daniel Mc Namara, John
Mc Namara of Moyriff, James Aylmer, Florence
Mc Namara, Samnel Boyton, John Mc Namara, Col-
lector, and the Provost of Ennis pro temp. Their ap-
plotment, £1,798 5s. 6d. for the three months.

For the County of Kerry ; The High Sheriffs pro
temp., Colonel Mc Cartky More, William Brown,
Esq. Sir Thomas Crosby, Knight ; Stephen Rice,
Daniel O'Donoghne, Ambrose Moore, Esqs.; the
Sovereign of Dingle pro temp, the Provost of Tralee
pro temp, and Andrew Elliott. Their applotment,
£1,052 4s. 9d. for the three months

For the County of Tipperary, including Holy cross ;
The High Sheriff pro temp., Colonel Nicholas Purcell,
Major James Tobin, John Cantwell, James Kearney,
Thaddeus Meagher, Terence Magrath, James Hackett,
Ambrose Mandcville, tke Mayor of Caskel pro temp.
tke Mayor of Clonmel pro temp. Edmund Ryan,
Cormick Egan, Nickolas Wkite Fitz-Henry, Esquires,
tke Sovereign of Featkard, and Peter Dalton, Esq.
Their applotment, £4,208 16s. for tke tkree montks.

For the County of Donegal ; Tke Higk Skeriff
pro temp., Captain Manus O'Donnell, Henry Nugent,
Jokn Nugent, Daniel Mc Swine, Captain Daniel
O'Donnell, and Captain Hugh O'Donnell. Tkeir ap-
plotment, £1,951 7s. for tke tkree montks.

For the County of Tyrone ; Tke Higk Skeriff pro
temp., tke Provost of Strabanepro temp, tke Provost

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of Dungannon pro temp. Captain Terence Donnelly,
Patrick Donnelly, Hugh Qninn, and John Clements,
Esquires. Their applotment, £1,492 4s. for the three
months.

For the County of Fermanagh ; The High Sheriff
pro temp., Constantine Maguire, Edmund Oge
Maguire, Bryan Maguire, Constantine Oge Maguire,
Philip Maguire, and Captain Thomas Maguire. Their
applotment, £1,013 18s. 9d. for the three months.

For the County of Cavan ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Captain Edmund Peilly, Luke Reilly, Philip
Eeilly, Philip Oge Reilly, Francis Bourke, and Thomas
Fleming, Esqs. Their applotment, £1090 9s 6d. for
the three months.

For the County of Monaghan ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Art Oge McMahon, Captain Hugh
McMahon, Captain Bryan McMahon, Captain Farrell
Ward, Doctor Henry Cassidy, and Alex. Mac Cabe.
Their applotment, £1052 4s. for three months.

For the County of A ntrim, including the town of Car-
rickfergus ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Sir Neill
O'Neill, Cormuck O'Neill, PvandaU McDonnell, Thady
O'Hara, Francis Stafford, and Borland White, Esqs.
Their applotment, £2257 8s. 9d. for three months.

For the County Down ; the High Sheriff pro temp.
Phelim Magenis, Murtagh Magenis, Rowland Savage,
John Savage, John McArtan, and Toole O'Neill. Their
applotment, £2011 14s. 3d. for three months.

For the County of Armagh ; The High Sheriff pro
temp, the Sovereign of Armagh pro temp. Colonel

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Owen O'Neill, Turlough O'Neill, Paul O'Neill, Hugh
Buy O'Neill, and Robert Martin, Esqs. Their applot-
ment, £1052 4s. for three months.

For the County of Londonderry and the City of
Londonderry and the Town and Barony of Coleraine ;
the Mayor and Sheriffs of Londonderry pro temp.
Cormuck O'Neill, Conn O'Neill, Art O'Hegan, and
John O'Hegan, Esqs. Their applotment, £1473 Is.
3d. for three months.

For the County and the Town of Galway ; The
Mayor, Recorder and Sheriff pro temp. Stephen Deane,
Peter Kirwan, John Bodkin, James Browne, Collector ;
John Kirwan, Thomas Revett, and George Stanton,
Esqs. Their applotment, £325 4s. 6d. for the three
months.

For the County of Galway ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Sir Ulick Bourke, Roger O'Shaughnessy, Richard
Bourke of Derryraghaghna, Nicholas French, Oliver
Martin, Dermot Daly, Laughlin Daly, James Donel-
lan, Richard Blake, and Miles Bourke of Clougheroge,
Esqs. Their applotment, £2410 9s. 6d. for three
months.

For the County of Roscommon ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Charles Kelly, Captain Theobald
Dillon, Bryan Fallon, Roger McDermott, Cormuck
McDermott, and the Portreeve of Roscommon pro
temp. Their applotment, £1501 15s. 3d. for three
months.

For the County of Sligo ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Colonel Oliver O'Gara, Henry Crofton, David

counties' assessment.

Bond, Charles O'Hara, John Crofton, James French,
John Brett, Esqs., and the Sovereign of Sligo pro temp.
Their applotment, £1186 2s. for three months.

For the County of Antrim ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Gerald Kean, Esq., Colonel Henry O'Neill, Cap-
tain John Reynolds, Bryan Geoghegan, Thady Koddy,
Lieutenant Jeffry O'Eourke. Their applotment, £688
14s. 3d. for three months.

For the County of Mayo ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Colonel Garret Moore, Colonel Henry Dillon,
Colonel John Browne, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter
Bourke, George Browne, Esq. Captain Thomas Bourke,
Captain John Bermingham, and John Fitzgerald.
Their applotment, £1555 14s. 3d. for the three
months.

With all powers and instructions for collecting same.
Date, 10th April, 1690 ; sixth of our reign.*

ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL AND FIELD
OFFICERS OF KING JAMES'S ARMY,

Out of the Muster Rolls, 2nd. June, 1690.

Duke of Tyrconnel, Captain-General.

Duke of Berwick, Lieutenant-General.

Richard Hamilton, Lieutenant-General.

Count Lauzun, General of the French.

Monsieur Lery alias Geraldine, Lieutenant-General.

Dominick Sheldon, Lieutenant-General of the Horse.

Patrick Sarsfield, Major-General.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Monsieur Boiseleau, Major-General.
Anthony Hamilton, Major-General.

' Wahup. '

Thomas Maxwell, Brigadier.

John Hamilton, Brigadier.

Will Dorrington, Brigadier.

Solomon Slater, Muster-Master-General.

Kobert Fitzgerald, Comptroller of the Musters.

Sir Richard Nangle, [Nagle] Secretary at War.

Sir Henry Bond, Receiver-General.

Louis Doe, Receiver-General.

Sir Michael Creagh, Paymaster-General.

Felix O'Neill, Advocate-General.

Dr. Archbold, Physician to the State.

Patrick Archbold, Chirurgeon-General.

Tli is classification of the Field Officers was taken by
Dr. King, (State of the Protestants, App. p. 67, etc.)
from the Muster Rolls drawn up subsequent to the
date of this Army List. It is followed in King, by a
similar detail of the Field Officers of each Regiment,
and is also given in Story's History of the Campaign •
(Pt. ii. p. 30.) Wherever these names or commissions
differ from what appear on the ' List,' the variance is
noted in the work ; while it is to be observed that
the Illustrations of Families are given respectively, at
the mention of that representative thereof, who ranks
highest on the Roll ; and there it is proposed to collect
particulars of such others of the name, as are recorded
in commission on other Regiments. The Index will
mark the especial places of Notices.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Regiments of Horse.

1. Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel's.

2. Lord Galmoy's.

3. Colonel Patrick Sarsfield's.

4. Lord Abercorn's.

5. Colonel Henry Luttrell's.

6. Colonel Hugh Sutherland's.

7. Colonel John Parker's.

8. Colonel Nicholas Purcell's.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

RICHARD, EARL OF TYRCONNEL'S.

Captains.

The Colonel.

Dominick Sheldon,
Lieut.-Colonel.

Francis Meara,
Major.

John Roch.

John Arthur.

Walter Bellew.

Nicholas Cusack.

John Talbot,
Belgard.

Lieutenants.
Thomas Beatagh.

Cornets.

Edmund Butler.

Edmund Nangle.

George Barnewall. Edmund Harney.
Edmund Keating. Thomas Bourke.

James Butler.
Charles King. Robert Nugent.
Nicholas Barnewall. Nicholas Taaffe.

Quarter-masters.
Peter Casinone.
John Bryan.

James Furlong.

Mich

Ger __.

Mor .

Tho

Ric _

The deficiencies, in the list of the above Quarter-masters, arise from the
mutilation of the original manuscript.

tyrconnel's horse.

RICHARD TALBOT, EARL OF TYRCONNEL.

The achievements of this noble family are em-
blazoned in the history of every civilized nation, and,
like most of the English Aristocracy, they derive their
origin from Normandy, claiming, as their ancestors in
far back time, the Talbots, Barons of Clueville in the
District of Caux. In 1066, Hugh and Richard
Talbot are named amongst the Knights who espoused
the cause of William the Conqueror, and as such they
appear in Bromton's List and in the ancient 'Chronicle
of Normandy.' The lines into which they branched
in England are fully set forth in the History of the
County of Dublin, p. 198, etc.

Richard and Robert Talbot, having accompanied
Henry the Second in the invasion of Ireland, the for-
mer had a grant of the Lordship of Malahide, in the
County of Dublin, which has continued in his descen-
dants to the present day. His namesake was Arch-
bishop of Dublin in 1262. In 1311, John Talbot
was summoned to attend the Parliament of Kilkenny ;
and in 1315, Richard Talbot, the lineal descendant in
the fourth degree of the first Richard, distinguished him-
self under the Lord de Bermingham on the occasion of
Edward Bruce's invasion of this country. In 1373 and
1375, Sir Thomas Talbot of Malahide was summoned
to Irish Parliaments ; and in 1378, Reginald Talbot
was Sheriff of the County of Dublin, at which time
branches of the family were established in the

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Counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, and
Wexford. In 1379, Richard Talbot of Malahide was
summoned to a great council at Baltinglas, and he
also was afterwards Sheriff of the county of Dublin.
In 1414, the renowned Sir John Talbot, Lord Fur-
nival, after those exploits in France which the inspi-
rations of Shakspere have even more immortalised, was
constituted Viceroy of Ireland. In 1443, his brother,
theretofore Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was appointed
Archbishop of Dublin ; and in 1447, his son, who
had succeeded to the title of Lord Furnival, was also
named Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

On the attainders of 1642 appear the names of
John Talbot of Castletown, County of Kildare, Clerk ;
Gerard Talbot of Naas, Gilbert and Gerald Talbot of
Carton, Matthew of Templeogue, George of Malahide,
Clerk ; John and William Talbot also of Malahide ;
Thomas of Poerston, County Dublin ; James of
Eobertstown, County Meath, clerk ; James of Athboy,
Merchant ; and Sir Robert Talbot, styled of Castle-
sallagh, County Wicklow, Baronet. The latter was, in
1665, under the provision of the Act of Explanation,
restored to his mansion seat, and 2,000 acres, if he
were seized of so much on the 21st Oct. 1642 ; if not,
then only to as much as he was seized of. He was
the elder brother of the Richard Talbot at present
under consideration, who was the fifth son of William
Talbot, a Barrister, by Alison Netterville (who died
in 1633). "They," writes Lord Clarendon (who was
TyrconneFs brother-in-law, and here alludes to the sons

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of said William Talbot, " were all of an Irish family,
but of ancient English extraction, which had always
inhabited within that circle that was called the Pale,
which, being originally an English Plantation, was in
so many years for the most part degenerated into the
manners of the Irish, and rose and mingled with them
in the late rebellion ; and of this family there were
two distinct branches, who had competent estates, and
lived for many descents in the rank of gentlemen of
quality ; and these brothers were all the sons or grand-
sons of one who was a Judge in Ireland, and esteemed a
learned man. The eldest was Sir Eobert Talbot, who
was by much the best. The second, Peter, was a
Jesuit, who had been very troublesome to the King
abroad, but afterwards, on the Restoration, rose into
Royal favour. The third, Gilbert, was called Colonel,
for some command he had against the King ; he also
had been with the King in Flanders, and was looked
upon as a man of courage, having fought a duel or
two with stout men. The fifth was ' Dick ' Talbot." *
This last individual, the future Earl of Tyrconnel,
born to no inheritance but his talent, obtained a com-
mission in the 4 Irish ' army after the insurrection of
1641, and served during the ensuing Civil War,
under the command of his own nephew, Sir Walter
Dongan. He afterwards went to Spain with his
troops, exiled by Cromwell, and thence to Flanders,
following the fortune of the exiled Stuarts. He there
distinguished himself by numerous acts of bravery,

* Clarendon's Life of Himself, vol. 2, p. 362.

44 kixg james's irish army list.

and had been a volunteer in the famous naval engage-
ment between Van Tromp and the Duke of York. By
his handsome figure, insinuating address and chival-
rous loyalty, he ingratiated himself with that Prince,
and, on the Restoration, was enabled to purchase
large estates in Ireland. When in 1670 the Irish
cavaliers, who had suffered in their assertion of the
Royal cause, sought to press upon the attention of
Charles the Second their losses and privations,
Colonel Richard Talbot was their chosen advocate.
Their petition, signed by Lords Westmeath, Mount-
Garrett, Kingsland, Dongan, and Trimlcston, and a
large body of gentlemen, on behalf of themselves and
the Roman Catholics of Ireland, though a well merited
appeal, was considered however an assault on vested
interests, and in truth amounted to almost a Repeal of
the Act of Settlement. Too powerful interests were
awake to maintain that measure, and the lapse of
years, the succession of families, and the transfer of
property have established its conveyances down to the
present day. In this his ardour to advance the claims
of his Catholic countrymen, Talbot incurred the jea-
lousy of the Duke of Ormonde, and actually applied
such opprobrious language to that nobleman, that he,
as Dr. Currie writes, " waiting on the King, inquired
whether he should put off his doublet to fight with
Dick Talbot/'

In the attack made by the Dutch in 1672 on the
English fleet in Solebay, this Colonel was taken
prisoner. In six years after, he was seized in the gal-

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lery of the Castle of Dublin, and committed to close
confinement ; his brother, the before mentioned Peter
Talbot, then the Eoman Catholic Archbishop of
Dublin, being at that time also imprisoned there,
under the suspicion of the 4 Popish Plot.' The Colonel
however effected his own escape to France, and while
there in 1679, after long previous courtship, he ob-
tained the hand of the beautiful widow of George
Count Hamilton. This her first husband was son of
the fourth Earl of Abercorn, and Colonel of a French
Regiment in France, where he was killed in 1676 ;
leaving issue by his young widow three daughters,
Elizabeth, afterwards married to Laurence Viscount
Ross ; Frances, to Henry Viscount Dillon ; and Mary,
to Nicholas Viscount Kingsland. At the Viceregal
Court these ladies were distinguished as the three Vis-
countesses, and were buried together in St. Patrick's
Cathedral, as was their mother many years after. Her
maiden name was Frances Jennings, the eldest daughter
of Richard Jennings of Sandridge in Herefordshire,
and sister of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough.

In 1684, Tyrconnel returned from his exile, and
King James, on his accession to the throne, promoted
him to the rank of Lieutenant-General, as " a man of
great abilities and clear courage, and one, who for many
years had a true attachment to His Majesty's person
and interest." He also raised him by patent of 1685
to the Peerage of Ireland, with the titles of Baron of
Talbotstown, Viscount Baltinglas and Earl of Tyrcon-

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nel,* to hold to him and his heirs male, and for want
of such issue to his nephew Sir William Talbot of
Cart own, Baronet, and his heirs male ; and, in case
of failure there, to another of his nephews, William
Talbot of Haggardstown. The preamble to this pa-
tent also lauds the Colonel for " his immaculate alle-
giance, and his infinitely great services performed to
the King, and to King Charles the Second, in
England, Ireland, and foreign parts, both by sea and
land, in which he suffered frequent imprisonments and
many great wounds." Then it was that, being jealous
of the support, which the Duke of Monmouth's
rebellion had received from his English subjects of the
Protestant faith, and fearing the sympathies of those
of Ireland in that cause, James at once determined on
disarming them ; the more especially as the army of
Ireland at that time consisted, in a very large propor-
tion, of men of the ' new interest,' as those of Cromwell's
introduction were termed ; and he gave ample powers
to this new peer to regulate the existing troops, and place
and displace whom he pleased ; at the same time
appointing his brother-in-law, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. " Talbot," admits Har-
ris, the historian of King William, " proceeded in new
modelling the army, and began with the officers in
the same method, that was designed immediately

* This title had been originally in the illustrious Irish Sept of
O'Donnell, and was subsequently enjoyed by Owen Fitz- William,
by a creation of 1663, to him and his heirs, which became
extinct by his death in 1669. — S. P.

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before the death of King Charles ; which was, to dis-
place all officers that had been in the Parliamentary
or in Oliver's army, and the sons of such. The Duke
of Ormonde had directions to proceed in this manner,
yet he made no progress in it, under pretence of gain-
ing time to find them out, but in reality because he
saw it was to make room for papists."*

A similar new modelling took place in the Corpo-
rations, when various Catholics of this name were
introduced into the new charters. James Talbot was
a burgess in that to Athenry ; James and William
Talbot in that to Eoscommon ; William Talbot in that
to Athy ; Major William Talbot in one to Banagher.
Walter, Anthony, William, Patrick, John, and Charles
Talbot were burgesses in another to Enniscorthy ;
Kichard Talbot in that to Swords ; while in the char-
ter to Wexford, Walter, Anthony, and William
Talbot were appointed aldermen, and Patrick Talbot
town-clerk of the borough.

Tyrconnel's annual salary at this time as Lieu-
tenant-General of the Army, was £1,410 ; that of the
Earl of Clarendon, as Viceroy, £6,593 6s. 8d. On
the same establishment of 1687-8, Sir William
Talbot, Baronet, ranks a pensioner for £500, and
Mr. William Talbot for other £50.

The influence, which Lord Clarendon might be sup-
posed at this period to have over his brother, could not
restrain those indiscretions of his that ultimately alien-

* Harris's Willuim III., p. 106-7.

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ated the kingdom from James. At the close of 1686,
he was obliged to resign the Viceroyalty, and Tyrcon-
nel was deputed in his place. In August, 1687, the
latter waited on King James, as before mentioned,* at
Chester ; and in the November of the next year, when
the Prince of Orange made his descent upon England,
Tyrconnel, who was especially intrusted to support the
cause of James in Ireland, promptly but unsuccessfully
sought to secure Deny, from which he had previously
drawn off the garrison. In a fortnight after, King
James made his will at Whitehall, and therein named
this Earl one of those to whom he confided the conduct
of his wishes and objects. On the following 14th of
March, when James, having eluded the vigilance of
Admiral Herbert, who was ordered to intercept him,f
after landing at Kinsale proceeded to Cork, Tyrconnel
a\ iiited upon him there, and gave him an account of
the state and condition of this kingdom ; represent-
ing that the diligence of the Catholic Nobility and
Gentry had raised above fifty regiments of Foot and
several troops of Horse and Dragoons," (defining thus,
as accurately as possible, the contents of the present
Army List); "that he had distributed amongst them
about 20,000 arms, but they were most so old and
unserviceable, that not above 1,000 of the fire-
arms were found afterwards to be of any use ; that
the old troops, consisting of one battalion of Guards,
together with Macarty's, Clancarty's, and Newton's

* Ante, p. 13.

f Lansdowue MSS. Brit. Museum, No. 849, f. 79.

tyrconnel's horse.

[Newcomen's] Regiments, were, pretty well armed,
as also seven companies of Mountjoy's, which were
with them ; the other six having staid in Derry with
Colonel Limdy and Gust. Hamilton, who were respec-
tively the Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of that
Regiment ; that he had three Regiments of Horse,
Tyrconnel's (his own), Russell's, and one of Dragoons ;
that the Catholics of the country had no arms, where-
as the Protestants had great plenty, and the best
horses in the Kingdom ; that for artillery he had but
eight small pieces in a condition to march, the rest
not mounted ; no stores in the magazines, little
powder and ball, all the officers gone for England,
and no money in cash."*

In this the Earl's own Regiment, John Talbot of
Belgard (of whom hereafter) was a Captain, while in
Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Henry, William and John
Talbot were Lieutenants ; George Talbot was a Major
in the King's Own Infantry, as was John Talbot
in Colonel John Hamilton's Foot, and Gawan
Talbot in the Earl of Westmeath's. In the Earl of
Clanricarde's, John Talbot was a Captain, and Luke
Talbot a Lieutenant. In Colonel Henry Dillon's,
Gilbert Talbot was a Lieutenant, and Mark Talbot,
(whom the Montgomery MSS. describe as 1 Tyrconnel's

* Clarke's Life of James the II. vol. 2. It appears that King
James was entertained on this occasion at Cross-Green House in
Cork; one of his pages was William Owgan, who in 1721 was
Sheriff of that City ; in 1742, its Mayor ; and died in 1776, at
the advanced age of 95. — Hibernian Magazines, ad ann.

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bastard') was Lieutenant-Colonel in the Earl of An-
trim's.

On the 24th March, the last day of the year,
(1688), James entered Dublin, the only Capital which
seemed yet willing to hail him as a King. On this
occasion Tyrconnel, bearing the sword of state in a
carriage, preceded the King, who followed amidst the
plaudits of the multitude, gallantly mounted and ac-
companied by the Earl of Granard and Lord Powis on
his right, and the Duke of Berwick and Lord Melfort
at his left.* A short time after, he proceeded to
Deny, " though the season was very bitter," writes
Colonel 0'Kelly,f " in order to preserve his Protestant
subjects there from the ill-treatment which he ap-
prehended they might receive from the Irish ; but he
was surprised, when on appearing before the City,
instead of receiving their submission," he was assailed
with avowed hostility. Eeturning to Dublin, he on
the 24th of April summoned his Parliament for May ;
on the first of which month, anxiously looking back
to Deny, he wrote to Lieutenant-Gene ral Hamilton,
then encamped before that City, " you shall have all
I can send you, cannon and mortars, to enable you
to reduce that rebellious town ; and to make the more
noise, Tyrconnel is preparing to go down to you, it
being, as you well observe, of the last consequence to
master it."J

At and previous to this Parliament, and for the

* Dub. Lit. Gazette, p. 174.
t Excidium Macarice, p. 33.
} MSS. T.C.D., E 2, 19.

TYKCONNEL'S IIOKSE.

whole time while he was in Dublin, King James held
his court in the Castle, and thence issued his procla-
mations. At that memorable Parliament the Earl of
Tyrconnel sat as a peer, while in the Commons Mark
Talbot was one of the representatives of Belfast ; John
Talbot (of Belgard) one for Newcastle ; James Talbot
of Mount-Talbot one for Athenry ; William Talbot
for the County of Louth ; Sir William Talbot, Baronet,
one for the County of Meath, and another William
Talbot was one of the members for the Borough of
Wexford. This last was of the Bally namoney (now
Castle Talbot) line, son of Walter Talbot who had
been High Sheriff of the County of Wexford in 1649.*
He was killed at Derry in King James's service.f
One of his sons, Gabriel, became a priest and superior
of a college at Oporto ; and another, James, entered
the Spanish service. J

Early in this session of the Parliament of Dublin,
a fortnight before which (11th April) King William
was crowned, Sir William Talbot came up with a
message from the Commons, imparting " their earnest
wish, that the Bill repealing the Act of Settlement
should be passed by the Lords with all the expedition
they could, because the heart and courage of the
whole nation were bound up in it."

Tyrconnel's patent for a Dukedom bears date the

* MS. in Berm. Tower.

t Graham's Hist. Derry, pp. 185, 102. See some curious
particulars connected with him, in Walkers Derry, p. 31.
t Burke's Landed Gentry.

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11th July following, and in August the Duke of
Schomberg landed at Carrickfergus. The former Duke
was one of those, who would have held back King James
from a hasty resolution of marching northwards at once,
to confront his enemy ; but illness, which confined
him at Chapelizod, prevented him from attending his
Majesty. In September, however, he joined his King
at Drogheda, declaring he would have 20,000 men
there by the next night, a promise which he fulfilled,
drawing his supplies chiefly from Munster. On this
occasion it was that he thought it advisable to oppose
those, who would have transferred the scene of war to
Connaught, urging that " there was not corn enough
in that Province to subsist the army for two months.*
On the memorable " July the First," when King James
came to the ground, " he found Tyrconnel with the
right wing of Horse and Dragoons drawn up before
Old Bridge ;f and on that day, fatal for the Stuart
Dynasty, his and Colonel Parker's Horse suffered most.
The former maintained the assault of King William's
most powerful regiment, the Dutch Blue Guards, at
the ford of Old Bridge, " the houses, breastworks, and
hedges around which they lined." u Had the French
been posted there," writes Story, (part 1, p. 80) 44 it
would be more to our enemy's advantage, but the reason
of this was that the Irish Guard would not lose the
post of honour." Nor did they yield until after repeated
charges, " driving the Dutch Guards and Schomberg's

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 378. f Idem, p. 39G.

tyrconnel's horse.

Regiment back into the river, with a loss of a great
part of their officers."* Of Tyrconnel's Regiment,
Nugent (Robert) and Casanone (Peter) were wound-
ed, Major Meara (Francis) and Sir Charles " Take" (?)
killed.f Yet did not Tyrconnel leave the field,
until the King in his retreat had passed the defile of
Duleek, when, joining Lausun, he followed the Royal
fugitive.^

" Tyrconnel," insinuates O'Connor, in his 1 Military
Memoirs, (p. 109) "was brave in danger, pusillani-
mous in disaster. In the rout of the Boyne, he viewed
the cause of James as hopeless, that of William as
triumphant. He had estates and dignities to preserve,
and only in accommodation could he see security
for them. If James remained, the contest would be
prolonged beyond the hope of accommodation. He
therefore sent his chaplain to him, to press his flight
to France, and to work on his fears of falling into the
hands of William." Colonel O'Kelly (Excid. Mac. p.
57) is yet more openly severe against Tyrconnel,
accusing him of " domineering and disregard of the
Irish f — " designing not to oppose King William ;" —
and that he actually " sent his wife, with all his own
wealth and the King's treasure, into France." When
the King left Dublin a fugitive, he avowedly gave
expectation that he but sought France to obtain
thence such aid as would establish his power in Ireland,

* O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 107.
t Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 400.
+ O'Kellys Excid. Mac. p. 35.

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and he committed the conduct of his cause in the
meantime to Tyrconnel.

In forty days after the battle of the Boyne, King
William appeared before Limerick ; at which time
Colonel O'Kelly, with the suspiciousness that too fre-
quently is the sole response to Irish patriotism, charges
Tyrconnel with favouring a surrender of the city to,
and a treaty with, that King ; an object which he
relies would have been accomplished, but for the
coming in of Sarsfield, and the enthusiam the pre-
sence of that darling of the army excited. Even King
William was shaken by the results of his popularity,
abandoned the siege, and returned to England ; where-
upon Tyrconnel repaired to France to urge the
promised supplies.* His departure from Ireland at
such a crisis was undoubtedly reprehensible, and
especially injurious to himself. " No sooner was his
back turned," observe the Royal Memoirs,f "than the
discontented part of the Army despatched the Bishop
of Cork, Colonels Simon and Henry Luttrell, and
Colonel Nicholas Purcell to St. Germains, with in-
structions to solicit his recall, addressing themselves to
his Majesty to this effect, — that my Lord Tyrconnel
was not qualified for such a superintendence as he had
hitherto exercised ; that his age and infirmities made
him require more sleep than was consistent with much
business ; that his want of experience in military
affairs rendered him exceeding slow in his resolves,

* Clarke's James II. vol.2, p. 420.
f Idem, vol. 2, p. 422, &c.

TYRCONNEl/S HORSE.

and incapable of laying projects which no depending

officer would do for him ; they relied that, should

he return with the same authority again, it would
dishearten the body of the nation. They complained
of the desponding message he sent to the King after
the battle of the Boyne, which occasioned his Majesty's
leaving the Kingdom, whereas, had he but stayed a
few hours longer in Dublin, he had seen such a
number of fine troops as would have tempted him not
to abandon them ; concluding with several per-
sonal reflections, particularly against the Duke of
Tyrconnel, and indeed against all that had any tie to
his interest."

Notwithstanding these calumnious representations,
Tyrconnel, in January, 1690, near the close of that
year (old style), returned still Viceroy of his country,
while the promised supplies, to a nation disunited and
hopeless, were in unconfiding doubt parsimoniously
dispensed. " The King resolved to support his own
authority in Lord Tyrconnel, and hoped to send back
the army-ambassadors in such a temper as would
make them live easily with him, which cost the King
a great deal of trouble and pains, and was lost labour
in the end. But it was the King's hard fate not only
to suffer by his rebellious subjects, but to be ill-served
by his allies, and tormented by divisions amongst
his own people ; as if his enemies gave him not dis-
quiet enough, but that his friends must also come in
to their aid, to exercise his patience and aggravate his

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sufferings by turns."* The French offerings to the
cause, as they came with Tyrconnel, consisted of a
scanty supply of provisions, clothes, arms, and am-
munition (by design, as Colonel O'Kelly would insinu-
ate). Story speaks of the contributions (part 2, p.
51-2) as "some soldiers' coats and caps, but such
sorry ones, that the Irish themselves could easily
see in what esteem the Monarch of France held them."

Tyrconnel's first act of administration, on his return,
was to order the Duke of Berwick, whose conduct
had much disappointed him, out of Ireland, f The
privations of the Irish Army the while increased, so
much so that they had it communicated to their King
" over the water," that in case the expected fleet did
not come promptly from France, there would need no
enemy to destroy them. The Duke of Tyrconnel had,
however, been making all the preparations he could in
the interim, and had distributed the small resources he
possessed, as long as they lasted, with as much impar-
tiality as possible ; at last, upon the 8th of May, 1691,
the French fleet appeared in the Shannon, and in
it was " St. Euth, with other French officers, as also
those gentlemen who had been in France to solicit the
Duke's removal ; which, though the King had not
yielded to, he however had so far given way to their
advice, as to abridge his power in reference to the
military affairs, the direction of which was vested so
wholly in St. Euth, that Tyrconnel, who before could

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 422.
f Idem, vol. 2, p. 435.

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have made a Lieutenant-General, had not now power
to make a Colonel, [thus accounting for some of the
changes which were subsequently made in the Army
List]. This so lowered his credit in the army, that
little regard was had to his authority ; but he pru-
dently submitted, and left the whole management of
it to St. Ruth, uwho seemingly carried fair, but in the
bottom was prepossessed against him."* Tyrconnel,
when he found that the French commander brought
no money, earnestly applied to King James to procure
for the Irish government even a thousand pistoles,
and retrenched even the necessary expences of his
own family and establishment ; but the request could
not be granted. The deserted Irish were left utterly
to their own resources and exertions, and this at a
crisis when individual views were so differing and
distracted. " The King," plead the Eoyal Memoirs,
" was forced to work with such tools as he had, or
such as were put into his hands by others, which
required as much dexterity to hinder their hurting
one another, and by consequence himself, as to draw
any use from such ill-suited and jarring instruments."

In the last struggle for the defence of Lime-
rick, Tyrconnel evinced his honour and allegiance.
" Though bent with age, and weighed down with cor-
pulency, he assumed no inconsiderable degree of
activity in repairing the fortifications of that town,
establishing magazines, and enforcing discipline ; and
made the officers and soldiers (first showing the

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 450.

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example himself) take an oath of fidelity to James,
embracing a resolution to defend his Majesty's rights
to the last, and never to surrender without his con-
sent. He at the same time despatched an express to
St. Germains, [such communications were then of
difficult transmission], begging speedy succour or
leave to make terms. He was powerfully aided by
Sarsfield [to whom he had brought a patent creating
him Earl of Lucan], whose intentions (says O'Conor)
were always right and zealous for the king's service ;
but their efforts were unhappily counteracted by
treachery and discord, on which the English general
relied more than on the number and valour of his
own troops."*

While this veteran patriot was "struggling with
the calamitous circumstances of his country, he was
seized with a fit of apoplexy on St. Laurence's day,
soon after he had done his devotion ; and, though he
came to his senses and speech again, yet he only lan-
guished two or three days, and then died, just when
he was on the point of effecting a unity at least
amongst themselves, the want of which was the
greatest evil they laboured under, "f He died in the
middle of August, about a month before De Ginkell
commenced the siege, and was buried in St. Mun-
chins Cathedral within the city. There is not a
stone to tell where he lies. Harris says, in his Life
of King William, that this great Irishman died " some

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, &c. p. 162-3.
j Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 162.

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say of poison, administered to him in a cup of ratafia,
because lie would not comply with the prevailing fac-
tion then in the town ; while others attributed his
death to fever, and some to grief for the ruin of his
measures." " He was a man," writes Colonel O'Kelly,
"of stately presence, bold and resolute, of greater
courage than conduct, naturally proud and passion-
ate, of moderate parts but of unbounded ambition.
In his private friendships he was observed to be
inconstant (and some did not shame to accuse him of
it), even to them by whose assistance he gained his
point, when he once obtained his own ends." He
" headed the peace party," says O'Conor, " supported
by the Hamiltons, Talbots, Nugents, Burkes, Rices,
Butlers, Sheldons, all of English descent, who pre-
ferred William as king of Great Britain and Ireland
to James as king of Ireland only ; and, in despair
of reinstating the latter in his ancestral throne,
sought to preserve their own possessions by accommo-
dation."* Again says O'Conor, " the English praised
Tyrconnel as a lover of peace, yet confiscated all his
estates ; which, if he had lived a month longer, would
have been preserved by the Treaty of Limerick. "f

Sir Bernard Burke in his Extinct Peerage (page
698) expressively writes in relation to Tyrconnel ;
" Of him much ill has been written, and more
believed ; but his history, like that of his unfortunate
country, has been written by the pen of party,
steeped in gall, and copied servilely from the pages

* rTConors Military Memoirs, p. 114. f Idem, p. 167.

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of prejudice by the lame historians of modern times,
more anxious for authority than authenticity. Two
qualities he possessed in an eminent degree, wit and
valour ; and, if to gifts so brilliant and so Irish he joined
devotion to his country and fidelity to the unfortunate
and fated family, with whose exile he began life
and on whose ruin he finished it, it cannot be denied
that in his character the elements of evil were mixed
with great and striking good. Under happier cir-
cumstances the good might have predominated, and
he, whose deeds are held by his own family in such
high estimate, might have shed a wider lustre on his
race." All these views of Tyrconnel's character may
be closed with the emphatic words which Mason, in
his excellent History of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
breathes over his grave, " Whatever were his faults,
he had the rare merit of sincere attachment to an
unfortunate master."

He died without issue male, when William Talbot
of Haggardstown, his nephew, to whom the earldom
was limited in remainder by the creation patent of
1685, assumed that title ; but, having been attainted
by the description of William Talbot of Dundalk, he,
too, pined in poverty at St. Germains. His son
attained the rank of a Lieutenant-General in the
armies of France, but died without issue, and in him
the earldom in this name became extinct.* Tyrcon-

* It was afterwards revived in the Herefordshire family of
( Carpenter, by a creation of 1761; while Sir John Brownlow,
Baron of Charleville, was previously (1718) created Viscount
Tyrconnel.

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nel himself left issue two daughters, who married
foreign noblemen. He had also two sisters, Frances,
married first to James Cusack of Cushinstown, bar-
rister, by whom she had three sons ; Captain Thomas
Cusack, killed in France ; Captain William, killed in
Portugal ; and Nicholas Cusack, the captain in this
his uncle's regiment ; with one daughter, Helen Cu-
sack, married to Robert Arthur of Hacketstown,
County of Dublin, Lieutenant of Horse. On the
death of Cusack, this lady married to her second hus-
band the Honorable Thomas Newcomen, Privy Coun-
cillor, Brigadier of his Majesty's forces, and Colonel
of a Foot Regiment in Ireland, and by him she had
also issue five daughters : 1st, Katherine, married to
Simon Luttrell, Lieutenant-colonel of the Regiment
of Foot commanded by Sir Thomas Newcomen ; 2nd,
Alice, married to Major William Nugent, son of the
Earl of Westmeath ; 3rd, Frances, married to Sir Ro-
bert Gore, Knight, Captain of a Foot Company, eldest
son of Sir Francis Gore, Knight ; 4th, Margaret, the
wife of Sir Maurice Eustace of Castlemartin, Baronet,
Captain in the Infantry ; and 5th, Mary, the wife of
Charles White of Leixlip, one of the Privy Council.
Frances, Lady Newcomen, died 17th February, 1687,
and was buried at Clonsillagh, near Luttrellstown.
[Funeral Entries in Berm. Tur.~\ Tyrconnel's second
sister, Lucinda, married Edward Cusack of Lismullen,
by whom she had a son, Patrick Cusack, a Dominican
friar, who became Bishop of Meath, and was King
James's High Almoner and Grand Chaplain, while he
remained in this country.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

It may here be noticed that, on the 14th of
December, 1691, George Talbot, described as of the
City of Dublin, who had been previously outlawed,
obtained a warrant for a nolle prosequi on his indict-
ment, grounded on his petition, which stated him an
Englishman and a Protestant ; that he was in 1681
made Captain of a Company of Foot in Ireland by
the Duke of Ormonde, and so continued until the
2nd July, 1690, when he was the first who, after the
battle of the Boyne, surrendered himself in Dublin,
and gave up at the Castle there, his own and other
fire-arms ; that he had given protection to Protes-
tants during the reign of James ; that, since his sur-
render, he had behaved himself peaceably and loyally,
and had taken the oath of fidelity before the Com-
missioners ; the truth of all which allegations the
Attorney-General certified. About the same time,
Richard Talbot of Malahide memorialed for a pardon
and restitution of his estates, he having been also
outlawed. His petition alleged that, while he admit-
ted he had held the office of Auditor-General to King-
James, he had filled no other office or trust, civil or
military, in his time; and relied that when King
William, after the battle of the Boyne, was advan-
cing on Dublin, he had surrendered himself in the
camp at Finglas, on the 9th July, 1690, and had
ever since behaved himself " civilly and inoffensively
towards that monarch's government ;" the truth and
sufficiency of which purgation the Solicitor-General
also certified, and the prayer was granted.

TYHCONNEL'S HORSE.

The widow of Tyrconnel and her daughters lived for
some time in the Court at St. Germains, with the Ex-
King, supported by a small pension which Louis XIV.
allowed them ; but having established her right to a
portion of jointure in 1703, as hereafter noticed,
and her daughters being married on the Continent,
she resolved on going over to Ireland. The state of
her health, however, induced her first to try the effi-
cacy of the baths at Aix-la-Chapelle, and in Murray's
Despatches of the Duke of Marlborough, is preserved
one of his Grace, from the Camp at Tirlemont, to the
authorities of that town, written with the object of
procuring attention and welcome for the Duchess,
then journeying thither. He also wrote to herself,
5th September, 1705 : —

" The first notice I received of your intention to
go to Aix, I immediately despatched a trumpet to the
French army, who brought me this morning the en-
closed pass. I have likewise ordered eight dragoons to
attend on you on your coming to the Bosch. These
will wait on you to Maestricht, where the Governor
will give you another escort on to Aix. I heartily
wish you a good journey, and all the success you can
desire with the waters. If I should not be able to
have the satisfaction of seeing you at the waters, I hope
to have that of meeting you in Holland, before I em-
bark ; being with much truth,
Madam,

Your Grace's most obedient humble servant,

M."

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

In 1708, she was in Brussels, and only then, it
would seem, on the eve of departure. On the 24th of
May in that year, Marlborough wrote to his own
Duchess : — " When I took leave of Lady Tyrconnel,
she told me that her jointure in Ireland was in such
disorder, that there was an absolute necessity for her
going thither for two or three months, for the better
settling of it. As the climate of Ireland will not per-
mit her being there in the winter, she should begin
her journey about ten days hence ; she said that she
did not intend to go to London, but hoped she might
have the pleasure of seeing you at St. Alban's. I
have offered her all that might be in my power to make
her journey to Holland and England easy, as also
that if she cared to stay at St. Alban's, either at her
going or return, you would offer it her with a good
heart. You will find her face a good deal changed,
but, in the discourse I have had with her, she seems to
be very reasonable and kind."* On her return to
Dublin, she fixed her residence at Arbour Hill, a
healthy and picturesque situation near the Phoenix
Park ; and there, after founding a Nunnery for poor
Clares in the adjacent locality of King-street, this
lady, who once adorned Courts and passed through
the libertine manners of Charles the Second's days un-
blemished, closed her life in March, 1730-1, at the
advanced age of 92. " Her death," says Walpole,
" was occasioned by her falling out of bed on the floor

* Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England, vol. 4, p. 156.

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in a winter's night, and being too feeble to rise or to
call, she was found in the morning so perished with
cold, that she died in a few hours." She is described
as then appearing low in stature, and extremely ema-
ciated ; without the slightest trace of ever having
been a beauty. She was buried, with her daughters
by George Count Hamilton, the 4 three Viscountesses'
before mentioned, ante page 45, in a vault of St.
Patrick's Cathedral ; while a mural slab, in St.
Andrew's Scotch College at Paris, is her commemora-
tion in a land where she had passed many of her days
of joy and sorrow. It records her as having been a
great benefactress to that establishment, and as
having provided an endowment for the celebration of
a daily mass for ever there, for the repose of her soul,
and those of her two husbands.

The Talbots outlawed in 1691 were Kichard Earl of
Tyrconnel, so attainted by seven inquisitions, and
by one other as Kichard, son of William Talbot,
called Lord Tyrconnel ; Richard Talbot of Boolis,
County Meath ; Richard Talbot of Malahide, County
Dublin ; John Talbot of Dardistown, County Meath,
John Talbot of Belgard, County Dublin ; John,
Patrick, and Anthony Talbot of Wexford ; Wil-
liam Talbot of Kilcarty, County Meath, Baronet ;
other William Talbots described as of Wexford, of
Wicklow, of Fassaroe, County Wicklow, of Haggards-
town and of Dundalk, County Louth, and of StrafFan,
County Kildare. James Talbot of Templeogue,
County Dublin ; James Talbot of Mount Talbot,

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County Roscommon ; Brine, or Bruno Talbot of
Dublin, (who was James's Chancellor of the Exche-
quer,* but he early made his submission to King Wil-
liam). Francis Talbot of Powerscourt, County
Wicklow ; Marcus Talbot of Dublin and of the
County Derry. (This last was, as before mentioned,
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Earl of Antrim's Infantry,
member of Parliament for Belfast in 1689, and sig-
nalised himself by a gallant sally on the occasion of the
first siege of Limerick, but was taken prisoner at Augh-
rim). Charlotte Talbot, a daughter of Tyrconnel, was
also attainted, as Was Frances his widow. The latter,
however, preferred her suit, at the Court of Chichester
House, Dublin, in 1700, for her jointure off the lands
of Cabragh, County Dublin, forfeited by her late
husband, and the claim was allowed. Lucy Talbot
sought and was allowed, as Administratrix of William
Talbot, the benefit of a leasehold of County Roscom-
mon lands. — Jane Talbot claimed and was allowed an
annuity, left by the will of Colonel Gilbert Talbot in
1674, and charged on houses in Limerick forfeited
by Sir William Talbot. — Mary Talbot, a minor,
sought, by her guardian, James Donnellan, and was
allowed, a large charge on houses in Dublin, forfeited
by James Talbot. — Helen and Margaret Talbot,
daughters of George Talbot, deceased, also minors, by
Patrick Talbot, their guardian, claimed the reversion
of an estate tail in County of Roscommon lands, for-

* Story's Impartial History, part 1, p. 65.

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feited by George Talbot, such reversion accruing,
if their brother James Talbot should die without issue ;
and their claim was allowed, subject to that contin-
gency ; while said James himself claimed and was al-
lowed that estate tail, and Sarah Talbot was allowed
a jointure off said lands. — Lastly, Henry Talbot, a
minor, by George Holmes, his guardian, claimed a
remainder in Templeogue, and other lands in the
Counties of Dublin and Kildare, forfeited by James
Talbot ; but his claim was dismist.*

In the cause of Prince Charles-Edward and his in-
vasion of 1745, a Captain James Talbot and Major
Talbot were engaged at Prestonpans, and Brigadier
General 4 de Tyrconnel ' was taken prisoner by the
English at sea in 1746. f

LIEUT.-COLONEL DOMINICK SHELDON.

The Sheldons are an existing family of respecta-
bility at Brailes-House in the County of Warwick,
having been theretofore established at Beoly in that
of Worcester. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly accompanied
Charles the Second in his flight to Boscobel, aiding
his concealment in the Oak, to the foot of which he
and three others attended their Royal master ; J and of

* Registries of Claims in Custom House Records.

t Gent. Mag., v. 14, p. 416 ; and v. 16, pp 29, 145, 208

i Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 1226.

F 2

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this line, it would seem most probable, was Lieutenant
Colonel Dominick. It is true that a Lieutenant Wil-
liam Sheldon passed patent in 1666 as a ' soldier ' for
858 acres plantation measure in the County Tipper-
ary, but it cannot be presumed that an immediate re-
lative of his would be an adherent of James. The sur-
name was even previously known in Ireland in the
County Limerick, where a Miss Sheldon of that place
intermarried in the seventeenth century with Mr.
Leonard Drew, of a Devonshire family, a branch of
which is yet represented in Youghal. *

The Peerage Books afford strong confirmation of
this officer having been of the Brailes-House line,
when they record that Arthur Dillon of the noble line
of Costello at the close of the seventeenth century
married Christiana, the daughter of Ralph Sheldon,
whom Lodge describes as ' niece of the Colonel,' while
O'Callaghan (Brigades, p. 100) says she was maid of
Honor to the Queen of James the Second. Inquiries
on the lineage have been directed to Brailes-House,
Viscount Dillon, and others, in vain. It does, however,
seem almost certain that the Colonel was brother to
the Ralph Sheldon, whom Sir Bernard Burke in his
' Landed Gentry,' (f. 1226) describes as " of Steeple
Barton, afterwards of Weston and Beoly," and as
having "died in 1720." In Clarke's Life of James
II. (vol. ii. p. 252) this Ralph Sheldon is said to
have aided that monarch's escape from Whitehall to
Feversham.

* Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 106.

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This Dominick Sheldon, who had been a Captain to
the Duke of Ormonde, (see post, at 1 Col. Francis Car-
rol,') is on the establishment of 1687-8* set down for
a pension of £200 per annum. Colonel O'Kelly repre-
sents him as having been " an Englishman by birth,
of the Roman Catholic religion, brought into Ireland
on the accession of James the Second, by Tyrconnel,
and by him made Captain of a company of men at
arms. He afterwards promoted him to be his Lieu-
tenant, with the command of his Regiment in his
absence ; and, by his uncontrollable power with James,
he (Tyrconnel) procured for this favourite a commis-
sion to be one of the General Officers, though still a
Lieutenant-Colonel, and got his commission dated
before that of Sarsfield, whom he designed to sup-
press."! Early in this campaign, " the Irish army,
under Major General Richard Hamilton and 'Major '
Dominick Sheldon, having taken the fort of Hillsbo-
rough and plundered Lisburn, Belfast and Antrim, laid
siege to Coleraine ; but there they met with such a
warm reception from Major Gustavus Hamilton, who
commanded in the town, and spared no charge or
pains to make it tenable, that they were forced to

* In the MSS. of Trinity College, Dublin, is (E 1. 1) the " List
of Payments made for civil and military affairs, with pensions in
Ireland for one year, beginning 1st January, 1687." It appears
to be the original book, a vellum manuscript, signed by the
Council in England. It is dated 3rd February, 1687-8, at
Whitehall.

t O'Callaghan's Macarice Excidium, pp. 150-1.

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draw off with considerable loss, whereby their designs
against Derry were retarded."* When afterwards his
King retired from investing the latter place, 1 Major '
Dominick Sheldon was one of the officers whom he
left before it to continue the siege. He afterwards
commanded the Cavalry at the Boyne, and had two
horses shot under him.f " A gallant charge under
General Sheldon at Sheep-house might have given a
different termination to the fight at the Boyne, but
for the prompt heroism of Levison's and Sir Albert
Conyngham's Dragoons, who, getting in the rere of
their antagonists, jumped from their saddles, lined the
hedges on both sides of the road, and, on the return
of the enemy from their successful charge, fired on
them with deadly effect, while Ginkle taking them in
the rear completed their discomfiture. "J When, on
the 30th of August, 1690, King William abandoned
his siege of Limerick, Sarsfield recommended that he
should be closely and vigorously pursued, and offered
to conduct the pursuit in person ; but, according to
Colonel O'Kelly, Tyrconnel gave private orders to
Sheldon, his Lieutenant-Colonel, to march the greater
part of the Horse into Connaught. He was however
ordered back by d'Usson and De Tesse, when he
promptly obeyed ; but, after continuing in Limerick
three days, he and his force were again commanded to
march into the country, as for convenience of forage ;

* Lodge's Peerage, v. 5, p. 175.
t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 400.
J Fitzgerald's Limerick, v. 2, p. 326.

tyrcoxnel's horse.

lvhereas, says Colonel O'Kelly, " they had sufficient
quantity of oats within Limerick to feed all their
horses for two months to come, and the enemy could
not keep the field for half that time."

Lieutenant-Colonel Sheldon, with Colonels Max-
well and John Hamilton, constituted the Directory
which Tyrconnel, when going over to France to urge
the supplies, deputed to advise the Duke of Berwick
in the charge of government cast upon him. At the
last siege of Limerick, in September, 1691, " when by
Clifford's neglect the enemy was permitted to make a
bridge of boats here near Annaghbeg, and thus passed
over their Horse and Dragoons . between the Irish
Horse and the town, Colonel Sheldon could only,
by advancing the picket, stop the enemy at a pass,
till himself would be able to gain the mountains with
his horse and foot, and so make their way to Six-mile-
bridge, a manoeuvre which was with great difficulty
performed at last ; but not being able to subsist there,
they were ordered back towards Clare, upon which
the enemy passed a great body of horse and dragoons
over their new bridge, and came before Limerick at
Thomond Gate."* Colonel O'Kelly, with his usual
inclination to find fault with any of Tyrconners
party, unjustifiably upbraids Sheldon for the "want of
courage or conduct" which this retreat, according to
him, evinced. Pending the treaty for surrendering
the town, Colonel Sheldon dined at the English camp,

* Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 463-4.

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and, after the capitulation, Sarsfield entrusted to him
the care of embarking the Irish refugees, " whose de-
parture marks one of the most mournful epochs in
our sad history."* Upon his landing them in France,
King James wrote him a letter of acknowledgment
from St. Germains, adding how well satisfied he was
" with the behaviour and conduct of the officers, and
the valour and fidelity of the soldiers ; and how sensi-
ble he should ever be of their services, which he
would not fail to reward when it should please God to
put him in a capacity of doing so."f Edward Sheldon

and Sheldon, Esqrs. were subsequently of the

Board of Green Cloth at the Court of St. Germains. J
It is somewhat contradictory in Colonel O'Kelly's
estimate of Sheldon that, while he censures as above
that officer's retreat from before Limerick, as discou-
raging his party from defending the City,§ he yet insi-
nuates, immediately previous to the sarcasm, that
" Sheldon and Lord Galmoy, true Tyrconnelists,
wrote (it is believed) more comfortably into France
than was suggested by Tyrconnel, and that they en-
gaged to hold out to the last extremity in hope of a
powerful relief from thence, of men, money, and all
other necessaries to prosecute the war, which (he adds)
if timely sent had certainly preserved Ireland."^

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 192.

t See this letter in full in O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 63.
X Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 411.
§ Excidium Macarim, p. 149.
f Idem, p. 147.

tyrconnel's horse.

This Lieutenant-Colonel was outlawed in 1691 on two
inquisitions, being in one styled of Dublin, in the
other of Pennyburn-mill, County Deny. In France,
whither he passed over, he ranked Colonel of a
Brigade Eegiment of Horse, styled par excellence
i the King's Regiment;' of which Edmond Prendergast
was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, (having theretofore
held that rank in Colonel Hugh Sutherland's Horse),
and Edmond Butler, his Cornet in Tyrconnel's, was
appointed Major in the Brigade. In 1702, Sheldon
so distinguished himself against the Baron de Mercy,
that he was raised from the rank of Colonel to be a
Lieutenant-G-eneral, and all the supernumerary offi-
cers of his Regiment were put upon full pay. At the
conflicts of the Mincio and Po in 1702 against Prince
Eugene, "great glory was acquired by Sheldon's
Horse, to which a number of reduced officers were
attached as volunteers. These gallant gentlemen,
exiled from their native land, reduced to French
half-pay scarce sufficient for subsistence, preferred the
activity of a camp to the indolence and obscurity of

a French provincial town King Louis, to mark

his satisfaction at the distinguished manner in which
they had acted, raised their pay to an equality with
that of officers of Infantry of the same rank."* " In
1703, when the Imperialists under Visconti were
posted on the Christallo, whose precipitous banks that
General thought secured him against surprise or at-

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 240-1.

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tack, Vendome the French commander, his opponent,
selected the best of his Eegiments of cavalry, and
amongst these Sheldon's Horse, to surround and
attack Visconti. The Imperialists, taken by surprise
while their horses were at grass, were overwhelmed
and driven into the Sassoni, a river in their rere,
where most of those who were not cut down were
drowned. Sheldon's Horse had a principal share in
this brilliant affair, in which their commander was
himself wounded."* In 1703 his brigade was not less
distinguished in the Army of the Rhine, and at the
battle of Spire, where he was again wounded. The
name of his Regiment was afterwards changed to
'Nugent's,' again in 1733 to Fitz- James's, and was dis-
banded in 1763.

MAJOR FRANCIS MEARA.

The O'Mearas were a distinguished territorial sept
in the Barony of Upper Ormond, County Tipperary,
and the name of their principal residence, Tuaim-ui-
Meara, is still retained in that of Toomavara, within
that district, yet the only individuals of the name,
who appear in the outlawries of 1642, are Dermot
Meara, described as " of Dublin," and Catherine his
wife.

In the commencement of the seventeenth century

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 256.

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flourished Dermod O'Meara, a physician and a poet,
who, Ware says in his " Writers," was educated at
Oxford. He wrote a history of the House of Ormond
in verse, as also some prose medical treatises. His
son, Edmund O'Meara, also a Doctor of Oxford and a
member of the College of Physicians of London, resided
for some time at Bristol, and died in 1680, leaving
three sons, William, a physician also ; the above Major
Francis, his second son ; and the third, a Jesuit.*
This Francis was one of the burgesses in King
James's Charter of 1687 to Wicklow, and was sheriff
of that county in the following year. He was killed
at the battle of the Boyne.f A funeral entry in
Bermingham Tower, Office of Arms, records the death
of Teigue O'Meara of Lishenuske, County Tipperary,
(son and heir of William O'Meara of do., son and heir
of Donnell O'Meara of do. ), who had married Honora,
daughter of Eobert Grace of Courtstown, County
Kilkenny ; by whom he had issue three sons, Daniel,
William, and Patrick, and two daughters. Said
Teigue died at Killballykelty, County Waterford,
30th April, 1636, and was interred at Clonmel.
Another member of this sept, Thomas Meara, was a
Lieutenant in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Regiment of
Foot ; and a Thady O'Meara, having been seized of
various lands in the county of his sept, and being an
adherent of James, was attainted ; when Daniel
O'Meara claimed a fee-tail therein ; while in a patent

* Ware's Writers, p. 190.

+ Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 400.

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of lands in the same county to John Otway, a saving
was contained of the rights of Theodore " Maragh" to
certain townlands specified therein.

At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Captain O'Meara
was of the wounded in Clare's Brigade. He was liv-
ing in 1793, when he resided with his son, General
Felix O'Meara, Commandant of Dunkirk. This lat-
ter individual went into the French service in 1755,
being then but eighteen years of age, and was imme-
diately received into Rothe's Eegiment. In the same
year hostilities commenced in Europe, by Admiral
Boscawen's taking the Alcide and Le Lys, French
ships of war ; and preparations were made for land
actions on both sides. The Irish regiments embodied
in France were sent to garrison Calais, Dunkirk,
Boulogne, and Ardres, on that frontier of France
nearest to England, as it was the policy of the
French king to oppose the Irish troops to those of
England. Here O'Meara, sharing in all the services
of his regiment, gradually rose, as vacancies occurred.
In 1778, when this brigade was incorporated with
French regiments, O'Meara, then a Captain, had the
same rank given him in that of Auvergne, which was
the second in military estimate of all the Infantry of
that country. Peace had existed between the two
kingdoms for some years previously ; but hostilities
again breaking out in the latter year, (which led to
the American war), Captain O'Meara for a time took
part with Royalty. In the succeeding years, however,
of intestine commotion in France, he, being then

tyrconnel's house.

Lieutenant-Colonel, resigned his commission to the
Crown, and, embracing the Republican movement,
received a fresh commission from the National party.
He fought under General Duniourier, afterwards un-
der General Dampierre, and was subsequently raised
to the rank of Lieutenant-General, with the defence
of Dunkirk confided to him.* There he subse-
quently married a young lady with a fortune of
80,000 livr^s. Three younger brothers of his were
also officers in the French service.f

CAPTAIN JOHN ROCH.

David de la Roche, son of Alexander de Rupe, alias
de la Roche, was the founder of this ancient Norman
family in Ireland. He married Elizabeth, daughter
and co-heiress of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester,
by the Princess Joan his wife, daughter of King
Edward the First. J From that marriage descended
a race that acquired the lordship and territory of
Fermoy, in the County of Cork, a district hence
known as the Roches' Country. During the reign of
that English monarch, several Royal letters were
addressed to members of this family, requiring their
aid and personal service in the Scottish wars ; • sum-
monses were afterwards directed to them to attend

* Gent.'s Mag., 1703, p. 449.

f Anth. Hib., v. 2, 239.

j Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 1132.

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the earliest Irish Parliaments ; and about the year
1320, George de la Roche, who had been theretofore
twice cited as a Baron to Parliaments held in Dublin,
was fined 200 marks for non-attendance. In 1344
the King summoned Lord Roche, by the style of
"Capitaneus des Rocheyns," to attend him in the
wars in France. This nobleman was, according to
Lodge, John, Lord Roche, who intermarried with
Eleanor, daughter of the second Lord Kerry, by
whom he had the first Countess of Kildare, mother of
the first Countess of Carrick, mother of the first Earl
of Ormond.* In 1377, John Roche of Fermoy had
summons by writ to Parliament. f It may be here
remarked, that in this and the two ensuing centuries,
the Lords Roche of Fermoy are, in the Annals, Eccle-
siastical Records, and official documents, universally
recognised in their character of Irish chieftains, as
well as of Anglo-Irish peers, by the style and title of
" Capitanei suae nationis ;" and their inheritance is
designated the Roches' Country, not only in the an-
cient maps of Ireland, but in the Acts of Henry the
Eighth, Elizabeth, and even down to the time of
Cromwell. David Roche, Lord Roche, surnamed the
Great, sat in Parliament as Yiscount Roche of Fer-
moy in the reigns of Edward the Fourth and Henry
the Seventh. J He was one of the Peers whom the
latter Sovereign invited to the entertainment at

* Lodge's Peerage, 1st edition, vol. 2, p. 103.
•)■ Burke's Extinct Peerage, f. 711.
{ Idem, f. G92.

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Greenwich, where he caused Lambert Simnel to attend
as a menial.* Before and after this year, the mayor-
alty of Cork was repeatedly filled by a Eoche. An
original letter of 1556, from the Clergy, &c. of Kin-
sale to Queen Mary, recommending Patrick Eoche
for the then vacant See of Cork and Cloyne, is pre-
served in the Cottonian Collection of the British
Museum. In Perrot's memorable Parliament of
1585, Yiscount Fermoy attended on summons, while
Philip Eoche sat there as member for Kinsale.
Soon after the attainders consequent upon the Des-
mond rebellion, John, son of Dorninick Eoche of
Limerick, emigrated to Eochelle ; as did Maurice and
John Eoche, two sons of John Eoche of Ellenfinch-
town, in December, 1601, with Juan de Aquila, for
Spain,f where it is believed the name still exists.
Very extensive estates of John Eoche Fitz-Thomas,
in the County Waterford, were granted in 1605 to
Sir Eichard Boyle. About the year 1630, the Eeve-
rend Mr. Eoche, President of the College of Douay,
and subsequently Eoman Catholic Bishop of Eoss in
Ireland, founded an establishment for Irish priests at
Antwerp, where they were supported, " partly by the
alms given at masses, and partly by the benevolence
of the people ;" but Harris, in his account of such
Irish establishments, attributes this foundation to a
Mr. Laurence Sedgrave.

The family were ever warm adherents of the

* Bermingham's Remarks on Baronages, p. 54.
t Pacata Hibernia, p. 426.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Stuarts. David, Viscount Fernioy, lost in the Koyal
cause in the war of 1641 estates worth £50,000 per
annum. He was himself banished, with a Eeginient of
which he had the command, to France, where he
died. Amongst those attainted in 1643, were Maurice,
Lord Viscount Fermoy, Patrick Eoche of Poolenelong,
Richard of G-liny, David of Ballynacloghy, James of
Keniere, John of Ballinvallagh, William and Adam
of Bhyncorran, Thomas of Aghlenane, Ulick of Ballin-
dangan, Edmund of Ballinlegan, Theobald and Wil-
liam of Killeigh, Eedmond of Garravadrolane, Miles
and Edward of Castletown, Theobald Fitz-John Eoche
of do., Ulick Fitz-John of do., and William Fitz-
Thomas Eoche of Clostage, all in the County of Cork.
Amongst the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, in
1646, sat Maurice Eoche, Viscount Fermoy, with the
Peers ; and David Eoche of Glanaure, John Eoche of
Castletown, and Redmond Eoche of Cahirdowgan in
the Commons. When Ireton took Limerick in 1651,
Alderman Jordan Eoche, Edmund Eoche, Esq., and
David Eoche were three of the twenty-four excluded
from mercy ; and Cromwell's Act " for settling Ire-
land," passed in the following year, excepted Maurice
Eoche, Viscount Fermoy, from pardon for life and estate.
After witnessing and sharing many of the visitations
of the civil war, George and John Eoche withdrew in
exile to Flanders, where they found their Prince,
for whom they had suffered so much, also a fugitive
and a wanderer. It is recorded of them that, with their
kinsman Viscount Fermoy, they shared their military

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pay with Charles,* a " service which," adds Sir Ber-
nard, "the monarch overlooked at the Restoration."
The reproach was supererogation in the annals of
that race. Even the Declaration of Royal Gratitude,
spread out in the Act of Settlement, names of this
family only Captain Miles " Roache," of the County
of Cork, " for services beyond the seas."

In King James's Charter of 1687 to Cork, Patrick
and John Roch were appointed Aldermen, and Ed-
mund Roche a free Burgess. In that of the same
year to Limerick, Dominick Roche, Esq., and Thomas
Roch, merchant, were named Aldermen. The former
was by King James, on his arrival in Ireland, cre-
ated Baron Tarbert and Viscount Cahiravahilla.f In
the new Charter to Kinsale, Edward, Patrick, and
Edmund Roche, and John Roche Fitz-Edmund were
Burgesses. In those of 1688 to Cloghnekilty,
John Roche was a Burgess, as was James Roch in
that to Mallow. In the Charter to Wexford, An-
thony, James, and John Roche were Burgesses ; in
that to Middleton, Philip Roche was one of the two
Bailiffs. In those of 1689, Edward Roche was a
Burgess in one to Fethard ; Edward Roche and
James Roche were Burgesses in that to Charleville.
In the pension list of 1687-8 appear entries of £150
per annum for " Lord Roche's children," and of £100
per annum " for the now Lord Roche."

* Burke's Landed Gentry, Sup. p. 280.
f Ferrar's Limerick.

82 king james's jrish army list.

In the Parliament of Dublin sat David Roche,
Viscount Fermoy (as on out-lawry reversed) amongst
the Peers. He was afterwards drowned at Ply-
mouth in the great storm of 1703, and was succeeded
in the title by Ulick Roche,* who dying without
issue, was succeeded by John Roche of Ballendangan,
"who," writes Smith in 1745,f "is now in the ser-
vice of the King of Sardinia, and has no issue. He
was during the late war in the service of that King,
in the rank of a General Officer, and is a great favourite
of the Prince. He was sent at different times to prevent
the French and Spaniards from crossing the Alps into
Italy, distinguished himself in a brave defence of
Augusta ; and, when compelled to surrender Casal,
the French and Spanish Generals paid him all military
honors, and entertained him nobly in their camp.
After being a prisoner for some time, he returned to
the Sardinian service."

Besides the above Captain John Roche, there ap-
pear of the name on this List, Mathew Roche, a
Lieutenant in Lord Galinoy's Horse ; Maurice Roche a
Captain, and Nicholas Roche an Ensign in Colonel
Thomas Butler's Infantry ; James Roche a Captain
in Lord Kilmallock's ; James Roche a Lieutenant in
Major-General Boiseleau's, in which David Roche also
was an Ensign. In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Edmund
Roche was a Lieutenant, and another David Roche
an Ensign. In Sir Michael Creagh's, Philip Roche
was a Captain, and another Philip a Lieutenant. In

* NicholTs Peerage.

| History of Cork, v. 1, p. 345.

tyrconnel's horse.

Golonel Owen MacCartie's, Philip and John Roche
were Captains, Ulick a Lieutenant, and David and
James Eoche Ensigns ; in Colonel Gordon O'Neill's,
James Eoche was an Ensign ; and lastly, in Colonel
John Barrett's, Ulick Eoche was a Lieutenant, and
David and James Eoche were Ensigns.

The outlawries of 1691 present the following
Eoches of that period : Philip Eoche of Dublin, of
Brickfields, County of Cork, and of Poulelong, in the
same County ; James Eoche of Ballymontagh, Coun-
ty of Kilkenny, and of Feartagh, County of Cork ;
David Eoche of Aghane, County of Wexford, and of
Curraheen, County of Waterford ; David Eoche of
Limerick, merchant ; Michael Eoche of Poulenelong,
County of Cork ; Eichard and Maurice Eoche of
Kinsale, County of Cork ; Maurice " Eoach" of Cork ;
John Eoch of Ballydanton, County of Cork, of Skib-
bereen, County of Cork, of Bally ado w, County of
Wexford, and of Hussabeg, County of Clare ; Joshua
Eoch of Knocknamana, County of Cork ; Theobald
Eoach of Ballydallon, County of Cork ; Patrick
Eoach of Dundauran, County of Cork ; Patrick
Eoache of Kerrane, County of Wexford ; Patrick of
Fount ainstown, County of Cork ; Dominick and An-
drew of Cork ; Edward of Bally ado w, County of
Wexford, and of Curraheen, County of Waterford ;
Eedmond Eoche of Killehaly, County of Waterford ;
and Stephen Eoach of Curwarragher, County of Cork.
This latter, on his attainder, retired to Kilrush,
County of Clare ; and afterwards to Pallis, in the
neighbourhood of his brother-in-law, William Apjohn.

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They had married two sisters, Anastasia and Cathe-
rine Lysaght, daughters and co-heiresses of William
Lysaght.*

At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Cathe-
rine Roche, alias Lavallier, widow of Edward Eoche,
claimed against the then proprietor of Trabolgan,
Francis, son of said Edward, her jointure thereoff ;
but her petition was dismist ; as was that of Clara
Eoche for a jointure off the County of Cork lands,
forfeited by Philip Eoche.

It may be mentioned that amongst the Southwell
MSS. some years since offered for sale by Thomas
Thorpe of Covent Garden, London, were curious Col-
lege Accounts of Lord Eoche, from June, 1711, to
December, 1712. His tuition in dancing, fencing
and riding, quadrupled in amount the charges for the
mathematics, French, &c. Four dozen of gloves for
him cost forty-eight shillings, a pair of leather
breeches a guinea and sixpence, and there was due to
the perriwig-maker twelve pounds, Lord Eoche being-
then a mere boy.f The education of this young lord
seems to have resulted from a petition of Lady Eoche,
forwarded in October, 1703, on her failure of relief at
the Court of Claims, by Mr. Canton Haly on her
behalf, to Mr. Secretary Southwell ; wherein she en-
treated " certain monies to send Lord Eoche's chil-
dren on sight for England, who are in a most forlorn

* Old Family MSS.

t Southwell MSS. Catal., p. 192.

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condition ; which will be one everlasting deed of cha-
rity, and an eternal obligation upon the family."*

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS CUSACK.

The origin and early notices of this surname are so
fully given in Sir Bernard Burke's 1 Landed Gentry,'
that a reference to its pages must satisfy those seek-
ing such information more completely than could any
extended details here. It may yet be observed that
in 1309, Walter de Cusack had special summons to
the parliament of Kilkenny ; that in the same cen-
tury Sir John Cusack, Knight, Lord of Beaupeyr and
Gerardstown in the County of Meath, had also sum-
mons to Parliament ; that he married Joan, eldest
daughter and co-heiress of Sir Simon de Geneville,
Baron of Culmullen in the same County, by whom
he left Sir Simon his eldest son, who was in 1375
himself summoned to Parliament as Baron of Culmul-
len. f That in 1535, Thomas Cusack of Cushings-
town was appointed a justice of the Common Pleas ;
in 1542, made Master of the Polls ; and in 1546,
Lord Chancellor. In the succeeding years, other
Cusacks filled the highest judicial posts in Ireland.

Throughout all the trials and persecutions of the
Irish Catholics in the seventeenth century, this family
espoused their cause ; and in the Civil War of 1641,

* Southwell MSS. Cat., p. 244.
t Burke's Extinct Peerage, p. 706.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

six were attainted for their adherence to that reli-
gion and their loyalty to the Stuarts, viz. Christopher
Cusack of Mullevad, and of Ardreagh ; George of
Trimlestown ; Patrick of Gerardstown, and James of
Cloneniaghana, all in the County of Meath ; also
Adam Cusack of Monanquill and Henry of Cornesal-
lagh, County of Wicklow. In the Supreme Council
of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny sat James
Cusack, who was therefore especially excepted from
pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652,
" for settling Ireland." The Declaration of Royal
Gratitude, displayed in the Act of Settlement,
only mentions " Mr. Thomas Cusack of Carrick,
County of Kildare." In 1671, Adam Cusack was
Chief Justice of Connaught ; in the following year he
was appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas. King
James's New Charters of 1688 have, in that to
Navan, the names of Nicholas and Christopher Cusack,
Esquires, and of Christopher and Robert Cusack,
Gentlemen, amongst the Burgesses. In that to Trim,
the above Nicholas Cusack was appointed Portreeve;
while James Cusack of Flemingstown, and Francis
and Christopher Cusack, were Burgesses. In the
charter of 1689 to Swords, another Christopher
Cusack was a Burgess, as was Luke Cusack in that
to Kilkenny.

Besides the above Captain Nicholas, there appear in
this Army List, John and Adam Cusack, of the Lis-
mullen line, Ensigns in the Royal Regiment of In-
fantry ; Bartholomew of the Rathaldron line and
Christopher of Corballis, Captains in Lord Slane's ;

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and Robert Cusack of Staffordstown, a Lieutenant in
Colonel Clifford's Dragoons ; while in Burke's
"Landed Gentry" a James Cusack of Clonard is
noticed, as an officer in King James's service at the
battle of the Boyne. In the Parliament of 1689, at
Dublin, Captain Nicholas Cusack, who was nephew of
Tyrconnel, sat as one of the Representatives of Trim ;
while the Borough of Navan was then represented by
the above Christopher of Corballis, and by Christopher
Cusack of Rathaldron ; as was Kells by said Bartholo-
mew Cusack. When, in 1690, King James assumed
to exercise ecclesiastical patronage in Ireland, he
presented Dr. Patrick Cusack to the Rectory of St.
Canice of Duleek, with the Vicarage of St. Mary of
Drogheda ; and Dr. Robert Cusack to the Rectories
and Vicarages of Robertstown and Kilmainham-wood.

At the Capitulation of Limerick, Nicholas Cusack,
then a Colonel, was an executing party of the Civil
Articles.

The outlawries of 1691 record as attainted Nicholas
Cusack of Cushinstown, James of Fieldstown, Chris-
topher and Bartholomew of Corballis, Patrick of
Philpotstown, Robert of Castletown, Robert, Adam,
and Michael of Gerardstown, Lucas of Brownstown,
all in the County of Meath ; Philip Cusack of Kil-
kenny ; Rowland of Killone, County of Cork ; Nicho-
las of Lough-bryne, County of Down, with Adam
and Christopher of Castletown- Abbey, County of
Meath. At the Court of Chichester House, Robert
Cusack claimed and was allowed a remainder in tail
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Dublin, Kildare, &c. of which Nicholas Cusack, the
forfeiting proprietor, had been seized in right of his
wife.

No evidence has been communicated of the fortunes
of Colonel Nicholas, or of the others of his name who
passed over to the Continent; but it is stated by Sir
Bernard Burke, * that of the Gerardstown line
Gerald-Alexander Cusack, Knight of St. Louis, was
a Lieutenant-Colonel in Roth's Brigade. He signal-
ized himself at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745, and
received for his services there a pension of 600 francs ;
he was again distinguished at the battle of Lauffield,
and, after fifty three years' service, died in 1753, S. P.

A Charles Cusack entered the Spanish service in

Lee's Regiment, became Captain-General and Knight
of St. James in Spain, and died Governor of Malatia,

S. P. Lastly, Richard-Edmund Cusack, Marshal

of France, and Knight of the Orders of the King of
France, served at Malplaquet, Minden, &c. and re-
ceived in 1755 the public thanks of that monarch for
his services at Maestricht.

CAPTAIN JOHN TALBOT OF BELGARD.

He had been one of the Chiefs of the Pale who at-
tended the great meeting at Swords in 1641, and in
the Declaration of Royal Gratitude, embodied in the

* Burke's Landed Gentry, sup., f. 87.

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Act of Settlement, he, being there described as of
Belgard, a Lieutenant, was included, "for reason
known unto us in an especial manner meriting our
grace and favour." For these services he further
obtained a restoration of about half his estates, which
had been seized by the Usurping Powers : of these
however he deemed it prudent to take out a fresh
patent in 1670, which expressly included Belgard.
He was one of the Representatives of the borough of
Newcastle in the Parliament of 1689, and, having
been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Wicklow, and Commissary-General over this and four
other Counties, he raised and equipped a Regiment of
Cavalry at his own expense, fought at its head at the
battle of the Boyne, and at Aughrim ; and, having
been included in the Articles of Limerick, this fine
old soldier thereby effected the preservation of his
estate. At his advanced age he declined to emigrate,
and, retiring to Belgard, passed the remainder of his
days in the ease and comfort of a competent fortune,
with the consciousness of having served his King and
country to the utmost of his abilities. He married a
daughter of Sir Henry Talbot of Mount-Talbot and
Templeogue, and, having no male heir, he sought, for
his only daughter Catherine, a suitable alliance in the
noble family of Dillon, which took place in 1696 by
her marriage with Thomas Dillon of Brackloon,
grandson of Theobald the first Lord Viscount Dillon
of Costello-Gallen.*

* D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 708.

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LIEUTENANT THOMAS BEATAGH.

In the Fourteenth century, and long after, this name,
which in truth seems to have been of Danish origin,
and anterior to the English invasion, is traced in the
history and records of Meath. In 1382, Henry
Beatagh was appointed one of the two guardians of
the Peace in the Barony of Kells therein. At
the close of the sixteenth century, William L Betagh '
of Moynalty was married to Anne, daughter of the
sixth Lord Killeen. In 1610, Edmund Betagh, son
and heir of Christopher of Moynalty deceased, had
livery of his estate according to the law of wardships.
The outlawries of 1642 included his name as Edmund
Betagh Senior, with Edmund Betagh Junior, and
James Betagh, all of Moynalty, Robert Muyle ■ Bea-
tagh,' and Patrick Beatagh of Newtown, all in the
County of Meath. The minutes of Courts-Martial
held in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, in 1651-2-3,
record those held on 20th March, and 23rd April,
1652, on Captain Francis Betagh and other Betaghs.

Of the grants confirmed on the adventurers in
1666, one to Thomas Taylor, of lands in the County of
Meath, contains a saving for Henry Betagh, Christo-
pher, Richard, Lucas, James, Mary, Anne, Ellenor,
Margaret, and Jane Betagh, all children of Patrick
Betagh, of such rights as their said father had in cer-
tain lands therein specified, and which had been
decreed to them in 1663. A similar saving of their

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rights was reserved in another patent of Meath lands
to Nicholas Moore, as also in similar patents to James
Stopford, Edward Stubbers, and Henry Morton, all
concerning lands in the same County.

The new Charter, granted by King James to the
borough of Kells, contains the names of four Betaghs,
burgesses, viz. Francis, Thomas, William, and
Henry ; and Thomas Betagh was appointed Town-
clerk.

The outlawries of 1691 describe ' Thomas Beatagh
of Moynalty,' who seems identical with this Lieu-
tenant. Francis Beatagh is also an outlaw, de-
scribed as of the same place. Both of these,
Thomas and Francis, are in a later inquisition de-
scribed as of Gravelstown, County of Meath. William
Betagh Senior and William Betagh Junior, styled of
Lisalkey, County of Down, were also attainted at
this time.

The case of Mr. Francis Betagh of Moynalty, as
iniquitously affected by the Acts of Settlement, is
especially recorded in Mr. O'Callaghan's 'Irish Bri-
gades,' where it is stated that his grandson, the
Chevalier de Betagh, was a Captain in Fitz- James's
liegiment of Horse, previous to the battle of Fontenoy,
and was living with the title of Count in 1775.* It
appears from the notes in Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy,
vol. 1, that some members of the Moynalty Beataghs
settled at Mannin in the County of Mayo, where a
daughter of Captain Gerald Dillon, becoming the

* O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1 p. 94.

92 king james's irish army list.

wife of James Betagh, was the object of one of Carolan's
poetical effusions.

LIEUTENANT CHARLES KING.

It would seem that this officer was a relative of
George King, theretofore proprietor of the town and
manor of Clontarf, whose house and town Sir Charles
Coote burned and wasted with his wonted cruelty.
The outrage, which, as Borlase writes, was " excel-
lently well executed," was attempted to be justified
by an allegation that Mr. King had been one of the
gentlemen of the Pale who had previously assembled
at Swords, and who had further abetted the pillaging
of a ship. This King was immediately after attainted,
a reward of £400 offered for his head, and his estates,
comprising the manor and island of Clontarf, with
Hollybrook, were granted to John Blackwell, a favour-
ite of Oliver Cromwell, who assigned to John Vernon,
the ancestor of the present proprietor.* Lodge
relates that Captain James Brabazon, son of Sir
Anthony Brabazon, was killed in 1676 by a Charles
King.f

The attainders of 1642 have but one of this sur-
name, George King, described as of Galtrim, County
of Meath. Those of 1691 exhibit only John King of

* D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dub. p. 89.

f Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 5, p. 274.

tyrconnel's horse.

Boyle, and Henry otherwise Martin King of Galway.
A Thomas King was Prebendary of Swords in
1703 ; and in 1776, a Charles King was one of the
Representatives of that Borough.

CORNET EDMUND BUTLER.

The notices applicable to this great historic name
are collected at the ensuing Horse Regiment of Vis-
count Galmoy ; it may, however, be here observed,
that this officer appears to have been the same Ed-
mund Butler, who, when Dominick Sheldon, the
Lieutenant-Colonel of Tyrconnel's Horse, formed a
Brigade in the service of France, appointed him, his
old companion in arms, a major.* The gallant ser-
vices of that force on the Continent are hereinbefore
briefly alluded to, under the names of 'Berwick' and
'Sheldon.'

CORNET EDMUND HARNEY.

He appears to have been of the County of Wicklow,
and, although his own outlawry is not mentioned on
the roll of attainders, there do appear there Matthew
and Thomas Harney, both described of Wicklow.

The name of i Herny ' (John, and Margaret his

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 197.

king james's irish army list.

wife) is of record in the Chancery rolls of Ireland in
1325 ; and in 1381, Thomas Henry was an officer of
the customs in Waterford and Cork.

QUARTER MASTER PETER CASINONE.

This individual is expressly described as he appears
on this List, in Tyrconnell's Regiment, in the report
of the wounded at the Boyne, given in Berwick's
Memoir ; though, according to Walker's Diary, &c.
(p. 60), 1 Quarter Master Casinone ' was hilled at the
previous siege of Derry.

QUARTER MASTER JOHN BRYAN.

Sir Thomas Loftus, who died in 1636, left with other
issue a daughter Jane, who had married John Bryan
of Whites well, alias Bawnmore, and had issue by
him four sons, the youngest of whom, John Bryan,*
seems identical with this Quarter Master. Alderman
James Bryan, of Jenkinstown, was one of the Repre-
sentatives for the City of Kilkenny in the Parliament
of 1689 ; and a Walter Bryan, described as of Akipp,
in the Queen's County, was attainted in 1701.

* Arclidall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 7, p. 355.

galmoy's HORSE.

REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

PIERS, LORD VISCOUNT GALMOY'S.

Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter-masters,

Richard Oxburgh. Ambrose Carroll. John Kelly.

Captains.
The Colonel.

Laurence Dempsey,^

1st Lieut. -Col. I

YMathew Cooke.
[Charles Carroll, (
2nd Lieut. -Col.] '

Robert Arthur, James Mathews.
Major.

Henry Fleming, George Gernon.
brother to Lord
Slane.

Lord Baron Trim- Patrick Kearney,
leston.

Michael Bourke,

Edward Butler.

James Bryan.

Piers Butler.

[Denis O'Kelly.]

Anthony Dulhunty. George Cooke.

Morgan Ryan.

Jeffry Burke. Piers Butler,

Roger O'Connor. Robert Molloy.

Laurence Fitzgerald. Lewis Welsh.
Edmund Butler. James Purcell.
Mathew Roche. John Smith.

Thomas Dwyer.
Oliver Welsh.

Geffry Burke.
James Butler.
James Shee.
Charles O'Connor.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

PIEES BUTLER, LORD VISCOUNT GALMOY.

Of this great historic family, whose annals in the bio-
graphy of but one individual have extended over three
large folio volumes, the notices for this work must be
necessarily circumscribed within the limits fore-
marked in the Prospectus.

The influence and conduct of the great Ormonde
prevented the attainder of any one of his name in
1642, with the exception of John Butler, an obscure
miller of Westpalstown, County Dublin. Some indi-
viduals of the name however attended the memorable
assembly of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny
in 1646. Of the Temporal Peers on that occasion
were Richard Butler, Viscount Mountgarret ; Piers
Butler, Viscount Ikerrin ; and Edward Butler, Vis-
count Galmoy. Of the Commons were Edmond But-
ler of Idough, Piers of Banshagh, James of Swyneene,
John of Foulsterstown, Piers of Barrowmount, Piers
of Cahir and Walter Butler of Paulstown. The afore-
said Lord Mountgarret was not overlooked in Crom-
well's Act for settling Ireland ; he, with James Butler,
Earl of Ormonde, was especially excepted from par-
don for life and estate.

The Act of Settlement of 1662, in its clause of
Royal Gratitude for services rendered the exiled Roy-
alists beyond the seas, includes the names of Viscount
Mountgarret, Viscount Ikerrin, Viscount Galmoy and
Lord Dunboyne ; with Ensign Walter Butler of

galmoy's horse.

Shanbally, Ensign Pierce (Duff) Butler of Tipperary,
Ensign Theobald Butler of Barnane in said County,
Lieut.-Colonel William Butler of Ballyfooky, Captain
Stephen Butler, Captain Walter Butler, Captain
Theobald and Ensign Thomas Butler. The same Act
contained also savings from its confiscations, of the
estates of Colonel Eichard Butler, of Thomas Butler

of Kilconnel, of Butler, son of Theobald, son of

James Butler of Derryluscan, County of Tipperary,
and of Richard Butler of Bally nakill in same County ;
of Lord Dunboyne's and Lord Mountgarret's, and also a
saving for James (then) Duke of Ormonde and his
Duchess, of their lands. The latter were further con-
firmed in "their parts of the regicides' estates, ex-
cepted out of the Duke of York's confirmation."

In May, 1686, the above Viscount Galmoy was
added to the Privy Council.* On the establish-
ment of 1687-8, Viscount Ikerrin is mentioned as
having an allowance of £235 4s., as Captain of the
Grenadiers, with an addition of £100 charged on
the pension list ; while the Lord Baron of Dunboyne is
set down on the latter list for another £100. In
King James's New Charters of 1687 et seq. Theobald
Butler was appointed of the Common Council of
Dublin. In that to Clonmel, James Butler, mer-
chant, was named Mayor ; James Butler, Junior, an
Alderman ; Theobald Butler a free burgess ; another
Theobald, Recorder ; and Theobald Fitz- James Butler

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 400.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Town Clerk. — In that to Cashel, James Butler and
James Fitz-Richard Butler were Burgesses. — In Bal-
linakill's, John Butler was one of the Burgesses. — In
Kilkenny's, Lord Viscount Mountgarret and Thomas
Butler were Aldermen. — In New Ross, Thomas But-
ler was appointed one of the Bailiffs, and Walter and
Richard were Burgesses. — In Callan, John and
Walter Butler were Burgesses ; In Gowran, this Vis-
count Galmoy was at the head of the Burgess Roll,
William Butler being another thereon. Lord Gal-
moy also headed the Burgess Roll for Thomastown,
with William Butler for a Burgess. He was likewise
first on the Charter to Old Leighlin, where Richard
Butler was another Burgess. In that to Wexford,
Walter Butler was an Alderman. In Derry, Robert
Butler was one of the Burgesses, as was James Butler
in that to Fethard, Walter Butler in that to Ennis-
corthy, and Edward and Thomas Butler in that to
Knocktopher.

On the present Muster Roll : — In this Regiment,
besides the Colonel, Edward and Piers Butler were
Captains, Edmund Butler a Lieutenant, and Piers
and James Butler Quarter-masters. — In Tyrconnel's
Horse, Edmund and James were, as before mentioned,
Cornets. — In Sarsfield's, Edward and Piers were Lieu-
tenants.— In Colonel Nicholas Purcell's, James Butler
of Dunboyne was a Captain, Theobald a Lieutenant,
and another James a Cornet. — In Lord Dongan's
Dragoons, Piers Butler was a Cornet. In the Earl of
Tyrone's Infantry, Edward Butler was a Captain. —

galmoy's horse.

Robert was a Captain in Colonel Cormuek O'Neill's.
— In Sir Neill O'Neill's, William was a Captain, as
was Walter in the Earl of Clancarty's. — In Lord
Kilniallock's, Richard was a Captain, James a Lieu-
tenant, and Toby Butler an Ensign. — In Major
General Boiseleau's, Thomas Butler was a Lieutenant.
— In Colonel John Grace's, Edmund was a Captain,
another Edmund a Lieutenant, and John Butler was
an Ensign. — In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Edmund
was a Lieutenant, and Thomas and Edward were En-
signs.— In Sir Michael Creagh's, Edmund was a Cap-
tain, as was another Edmund in Colonel Owen Mac
Carty's. — Colonel Thomas Butler had a Regiment en-
tirely of his own 'raising,' in which James and Rich-
ard Butler were Captains ; so had Colonel Edward
Butler, in which two Edmunds Butler and one John
were commissioned. — In Colonel John Barrett's, John
Butler was a Captain, and he may probably be identi-
fied with the 'Colonel' John Butler, who commanded
a troop of Grenadiers at Aughrim, was there taken
prisoner, and so committed to the Tower in 1695.*
Previous to the forming of this Muster Roll, a George
Butler was Captain in Colonel Fairfax's, a then exist-
ing Regiment ; and of him the Earl of Clarendon, in
January, 1685, wrote, that he had "served abroad
when the late King had forces in Flanders, and had
as good a character as any young man can have ;"

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 393.

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100 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

but he was killed in the following year, by Captain
Twisleton of Sir Thomas Newcomen's Kegiment.*

At the close of the year 1688, Lord Galmoy came
to Belturbet, and made an unsuccessful attempt to
besiege the Castle of Crom ; he was repulsed by the
Enniskilleners, who had thrown succours into it.f
This Peer was one of the Privy Council, who a short
time previously caused proclamations to issue from the
Council Chamber of Dublin against meetings of dis-
affected persons, "in a riotous and warlike manner
assembled f who, according to informations received
by the Lord Deputy, "have taken upon them to fortify
themselves by possessing of places of strength, and
dividing themselves into Troops and Companies, pro-
viding themselves of arms and ammunition ; " and the
Lord Deputy and Council thereby ordered all persons
so assembled to disperse, or that directions shall be
given to proceed against any defaulters as for high
treason. In further relation to this family, it may
be here noted that a Kegiment, commanded by
Colonel Richard Butler, was one of those sent by
King James to France in exchange for the French
auxiliaries.

In the Poll of the memorable Parliament of Dublin
(1689), appear of this name in the Upper House the
above Piers, Viscount Galmoy, Viscount Mountgar-
rett, Viscount Ikerrin, Lords Dunboyne and Cahir ;
while in the Commons sat Walter Butler as one of

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, pp.207, 336.
t Hamilton's Enniskilleners, p. 10, &c.

galmoy's horse.

101

the representatives of the Borough of Callan, Richard
for that of Gowran, Walter of Munfine for the
County of Wexford, Biehard for the County of Wick-
low, Theobald of Strathnagallen for Enniscorthy,
James of Grangebeg for the County of Tipperary, and
Biehard for the Borough of New Ross.

On the 4th of July, in the year of this Parliament,
Lord Viscount Mountgarret led the forlorn hope of Horse
against Derry, when he was taken prisoner. " The
besieged took three colours of Colonel Butler into the
town, and have them."* It may be added that, after
the Revolution, in October, 1692, this Peer laid claim
to his seat in Parliament, and took the oath of allegi-
ance, but, being required to take that of supremacy,
he refused so to do, declaring it was not agreeable
to his conscience, whereupon he was excludedf .

Crossley, in his " Peerage of Ireland," published in
1725, has an absurd story, that this Lord Viscount
Galmoy was obliged to do public penance in St. Wer-
burgh's Church, Dublin, " for some insolent or ill action
committed by him in that Church, but that he after-
wards left Ireland with King James." As the latter
part of this story is erroneous, the whole may be con-
sidered apocryphal. Lord Galmoy, so far from going
off with King James, remained with his Regiment to
the last, was taken prisoner at Aughrim, and, having
been exchanged, was one of the contracting parties on
the Irish side to the Treaty of Limerick, 3rd October,
1691.

* Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 188.
t Graham's Derriana, p. 37.

102 king james's irish army list.

In the outlawries of 1691, et seq. Viscount Gal-
moy was attainted on six inquisitions in Dublin,
Westmeath, Kilkenny, Wexford, Tyrone and King's
County. — Richard Viscount Mountgarret on four, in
Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Londonderry. — Two
on Lord Dunboyne, in Clare and Meath. — One on
John Butler, son of Lord Galmoy. — On James Butler
in the latter County. — On Tobias and Theobald in
Dublin. — In Wexford on Walter, senior and junior,
and Edmund of Munfyne, Richard of New Ross, Ed-
ward of Leckan, and James of Ballyborough. — In
Kilkenny on Walter of Callan, Edmund of Bally-
ragget, Edward of Flemingstown, William of Bram-
blestown, Edward Fitz-Edward of Fiertagh, Richard of
Low Grange, Peter of Kilkenny, Edward Fitz-Rich-
ard of Kilkenny, Piers of Coolmanan, and on Thomas
and Richard of Garryricken. — In Tipperary, on
James Butler of Grangebeg. — In Carlow, on Richard
of Rahalin and Edward of Dunganstown. — In Water-
ford, on Edward and John of Ballynaclogh ; on Tobias
of Knockanebuy, James of Kilcorr, and William of
Munvehogg. — In the Queen's County, on Richard
and Edward of Kilderrick, and on William of Car-
ran ; and lastly, in the County of Roscommon, on
James Butler of Coneragh. Lord Galmoy 's forfeitures
alone comprised nearly 10,000 acres plantation mea-
sure in the County of Kilkenny, and about half that
quantity in the Barony of Bantry, County of Wex-
ford. Theobald Butler, seventh Baron of Cahir, was

galmoy's horse.

103

also outlawed, but his attainder was reversed in 1693,
and his Lordship restored to his estates.*

While King James was in Dublin, on the 10th of
May, previous to the battle of the Boyne, he gave
licence to the Lady Butler and her sisterhood of the
order of St. Benedict, to found a Nunnery in that
City for themselves and their successors, under the
name and style of " the Abbess and Convent of our
Royal Monastery of St. Benedict, called Gratia Dei."

At the battle of Landen, fought 29th July, 1693,
the Duke of Ormonde (who, according to Clarendon,f
after King James had gone to bed at Andover, 26th
November, 1688, turned over to William) was
wounded and taken prisoner fighting on the English
side. J At the Court of Claims in 1700, George
Butler claimed an estate tail in Ballyraggett, County
of Kilkenny, forfeited by Edmund Butler ; he also
sought and was allowed a remainder in tail in Cranagh,
County of Kilkenny, forfeited by Edward Butler ; as
did James Butler a similar remainder in Tipperary
lands, late the estate of James Butler, but his petition
was dismist. Another James Butler, a merchant,
claimed the absolute fee of various lands in the
County of Carlow, forfeited by Viscount Galmoy.
John Butler, as surviving devisee and Executor of
Colonel Walter Butler of Garryricken, claimed and
was allowed a mortgage affecting Tipperary lands of

* Burke's Peerage, p. 434.

t Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon.

\ Rawdon Papers, p. 377.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Lord Dunboyne ; and Walter Butler petitioned for
and was allowed mortgages affecting Lord Galmoy's
estates in the County of Kilkenny ; while Theobald
Butler, 'Counsellor at Law' was a claimant on lands
forfeited by 'the late Lord Clare.'

The name of this last claimant is entitled to especial
notice, deeply and influentially as he was projected in
the affairs of the period. He was the advising Counsel
in all the negotiations for the Capitulation of
Limerick, and an executing party to the Civil Arti-
cles. Accordingly, when, in violation of these Arti-
cles, the "Act against the further growth of Popery"
was devised, he, with Sir Stephen Rice and Coun-
sellor Malone, appeared at the Bar of the Irish House
of Commons, to protest against its provisions, as a
direct attempt to infringe on one or other of these
Articles, which he held in his hand, presented to the
House, and commented upon with thrilling but inef-
fective eloquence.* He was buried in St. James's
Churchyard, Dublin, the great Catholic burial-place
at that time and long subsequently ; where, in the
centre of that graveyard, a tall monument was
erected, with a large mural slab inserted, and in-
scribed with his commemoration.

Sir Piers Butler, the fourth Viscount Ikerrin, was
knighted and constituted a member of King James's
Council, for which distinctions and his services to
that monarch he was attainted, but afterwards ob-

* Dr. Curry gives full notes of his arguments, Hist. Rev. vii.
pp. 237, 386 to 397.

galmoy's horse.

105

tained a reversal thereof, and in October, 1698, took
his seat in the House of Peers.

The Abbe Geoghegan, in his Histoire de VIrelande,
acknowledges that the accounts which he gave of this
campaign were amongst other sources derived from a
journal left by the late Edmund Butler of Kilcop,
who was Marshal-General of the Cavalry of Ireland,
and was the more worthy of credence as he had him-
self seen what he wrote of. He died, adds the Abbe,
in 1725, at Saint Germain-en-Laye, Field Marshal of
the Cavalry in the French service. On the first
formation of the Irish Brigades in France, this Ed-
mund Butler was a Major in what was styled the
' King's Eegiment while the above Lord Galmoy
was Colonel of the ' Queen's Own.' Eene de Carne,
a Frenchman, was his Lieutenant-Colonel, and James
Tobin his Major. This latter Eegiment comprised
two squadrons, four companies, six Lieutenants, and
six Cornets. For the services of this Brigade on the
Continent in 1701, and the succeeding years, see
notices ante, page 24, &c, at Berwick's, with which this
co-operated. In the movements of the Italian cam-
paigns of 1703 and 1706, Galmoy's Eegiment was
likewise distinguished.* In 1715, it was drafted
into Dillon's.

At the battle of Laumeld in 1747, Piers Butler, a
Lieutenant in Lally's Brigade, was badly wounded ;
while another Piers Butler, in Bulkeley's, was taken
prisoner, f

* See O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 234, &c.
t Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377.

106

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL LAURENCE
DEMPSEY.

The O'Dempseys were Chiefs of Clan-Maoilughra
(Glenmalira) a territory extending over part of the
King's and Queen's Counties ; and, on the Chancery
Rolls after the English invasion, are recorded sundry
licenses and mandates to the Lords-Lieutenant of Ire-
land, to treat and parley with the sept of ' O'Dymsy.'
When Edward the Second meditated his invasion
of Scotland in 1314, he directed a special letter mis-
sive to ' Fyn O'Dymsy,' for his aid. Necessarily

passing over remoter annals of this powerful Irish
sept, it appears that in 1615, James the First
directed a surrender to be received from Terence
O'Dempsey of premises in the King's and Queen's
Counties, with the object of regranting same to him
in tail male, remainder in tail male to Dermot Mac
Hugh O'Dempsey, reversion still in the Crown. The
Clan continued Lords of this their recognised terri-
tory until the attainders of 1641 and 1688 shook
them from their inheritance. Those denounced on
the former occasion were Lewis Dempsey of Baskets-
town, Robert of Ballybeg, James of Tully (Clerk),
Dominick also of Tully, Edmund ' Dempsie' of Kil-
dare, and Henry Dempsy of Ballybrittas, all in the
County of Kildare.

In the Assembly of Confederate Catholics at Kil-
kenny, in 1646, Edmund O'Dempsey, Bishop of

galmoy's horse.

107

Leighlin, was of the Spiritual Peers ; while of the
Temporal was Lewis O'Dempsey, Viscount 4 Clanma-
lier ;' and Barnabas Dempsey of Clonehork was of the
Commons. Cromwell's Act of 1652 excepted the
above Viscount Lewis, as also Lysagh O'Dempsey of
the King's County, from pardon for life and estate ;
and the Declaration of Eoyal Gratitude, promulgated
in the Act of Settlement (1662), includes only an
1 Ensign Phelim Dempsey.' In the List of Pensions
on the Irish establishment, 1687-8, appear the names
of Mrs. Anne Dempsey for £150, and of Mr. James
Dempsey for £50 per annum.

Besides Colonel Laurence Dempsey, Thomas Demp-
sey is in this Army List a Lieutenant in Sarsfield's
Horse ; while two other Colonels of the name were in
the service, though not in this List, Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Dempsey (of whom hereafter), and Colonel
James ; of which latter the Earl of Clarendon writes
to Rochester, in January, 1685 : — "The Providence
is cast away upon the coast of Carlingford, and but
one man of all the Company saved. In her were
Colonel Dempsey's horses and servants, and all his
goods, which, I doubt, will almost undo the poor
man."* And again writes the same Earl : — " I have
known him for many years, and always for a man of
honour, and a good officer ; and I do not in the least
doubt his integrity and sincerity."! In the ensuing

* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 214.
f Idem, v. 2, p. 130.

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king james's irish army list.

April, this Colonel himself arrived in Ireland.* His
name will be found included in the subsequent extract
of 1688 outlawries.

King James's Charters of 1687 have Charles
Dempsey a burgess in that to Kildare, and James
Dempsey, the Colonel, in that to A thy. In his Par-
liament of 1689 sat Maximilian O'Dempsey, then
Viscount Clanmalier, the Great-grandson of Sir
Terence O'Dempsey, who was knighted in May, 1599,
by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland; he was in 1631 created Baron
of Philipstown and Viscount Clanmalier, and died in
the following year. His son and heir, Anthony,f was
the father of Lewis, above mentioned, who also died
in 1683, when Maximilian, the Peer of King James's
parliament succeeded. This Sovereign constituted
him Lord Lieutenant of the Queen's County.

On Sunday, the 22nd June, 1690, (eight days
previous to the battle of the Boyne), King James
gained what was construed an omen of success, in a
skirmish with a detachment of his Royal rival's forces,
which had been despatched to reconnoitre what lines
of march would be most advisable for King William's
advance ; and, " it being observed," say the Royal
Memoirs, " that every night the latter sent a party
to a pass called the Half-way Bridge, to press a guard
of Horse and Dragoons which King James had there
between Dunclalk and Newry, this King ordered out

* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 341.
f Crossley's Peerage, p. 115.

galmoy's horse.

109

a party of Horse and Foot, under the command of
Colonel Dempsey and Lieutenant-Colonel Fitz-geralcl,
to lie in ambuscade, and if possible to surprise them ;
which was performed with such success, that the
enemy's force of 200 Foot and 60 Dragoons fell into it
at break of day, and were most of them cut off ; the
four captains that commanded and most of the sub-
alterns being either killed or taken prisoners, with
the loss of a few common men. On the King's side,
only Colonel Dempsey himself was wounded ; but he
died in two or three days after." His namesake,
Viscount Maximilian, died in the same year with the
Colonel, S. P., as did his widow (who had been one of
the co-heiresses of John Bermingham of Dunfiert)
within a few years after. — Lieutenant Colonel Francis
distinguished himself in the defence of Limerick,
where, in the last days of the siege (22nd Sept.
1691), he, together with Lieutenant-Colonel Edward
Hurley and Major Matthew French, was taken
prisoner, as was also Colonel James Skelton, who
died soon after of his wounds.* The outlawries of
1691 exhibit the names of Laurence Dempsey of
Drynanstown, County of Kildare, and Colonel James
' Dempsy ' of Moone, in said County ; the latter for-
feited a moiety of the manor of Moone therein, and
upwards of 300 acres in the Barony of Moydow,
County of Longford. He also lost on his attainder
certain interests in Meath, off which his widow, Ho-
nora Dempsey, and his daughter Mary sought respec-

* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 225.

110 king james's irish army list.

tively jointure and portion at the Court of Claims, but
both their petitions were disniist. Dr. Mac Derniott,
in his notes on the Four Masters (Geraghty's Edition,
p. 248), suggests that Terence O'Dempsey of this
family settled in Cheshire, and died in 1769, leaving
issue still extant in or about Liverpool. — William
Dempsey, 4 a Koman Catholic,' one of the state prison-
ers in the service of Prince Charles-Edward, was
executed at York in 1746.*

CAPTAIN LORD BARON TRIMLESTON.

One of the Knights who accompanied the Conqueror
into England was Le Sieur de Barneville,

Barneville et Berners,

Cheyne et dialers,
as old Bromton quaintly links the Roll of that warlike
importation. The family was early distinguished in
the Crusades, and extended itself over large pos-
sessions in England. At the commencement of the
thirteenth century, Ulfran de Barneville obtained
estates in 'the Yale of Dublin,' which his posterity
held until the reign of James the First, when they
were granted principally to Adam Loftus. In the
previous annals of the Pale, this family was much
projected ; members of the name were frequently sum-
moned to Parliaments and Great Councils, and were

* Gent. Mag. v. 16, p. G14.

galmoy's horse.

Ill

selected for the highest judicial situations. In 1435,
Christopher Barnewall of Crickstown was appointed
Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, (his
mother was daughter of the celebrated Lord Furni-
val). In 1461, Nicholas Barnewall was appointed
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; he was the lineal
ancestor of the present Sir Reginald Aylmer Barnewall,
and brother to Robert Barnewall, who in the follow-
ing year was constituted a Lord of Parliament by
the above title, Baron of Trimleston, to hold said
dignity in tail male. In 1487, Christopher, the
second Lord, was one of the Irish magnates who,
deceived by the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, as-
sisted at his coronation in Christ Church, Dublin ; but
soon after, on unreserved submission, he received his
pardon. In 1504, this Lord, under the command of
the Earl of Kildare, then Lord Deputy of Ireland,
defeated the Lord of Thoniond, Ulick Burke, O'Carrol,
and others of their party at the great battle of Knock-
tow, near G-alway.* In 1534, John, the third Baron
of Trimlestown, was raised to the woolsack ; and three
years after was selected to open a parley with O'Neill,
on which occasion he succeeded in making peace.

In 1563, and for years after, Sir Christopher
Barnewall of Turvey was the popular leader of the
Irish Parliament ; he died at Turvey in 1575,
"the lamp and light as well of his house as of
that part of Ireland wherein he dwelt ; zealously
bent to the reformation of his country ; measuring,"

* D'Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 181.

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adds the record, " all his affairs with the safety
of conscience, as true as steel, close and secret,
fast to his friend, stout in a good quarrel, a great
householder, sparing without pinching, spending with-
out wasting, of nature mild, rather choosing to plea-
sure where he might harm, than willing to harm where
he might pleasure."* Within the old church of Lusk,
near the family mansion of Turvey, stood a noble
monument commemorative of him and his Lady, who
afterwards married Sir Lucas Dillon of Moymet,
County of Meath. The tomb was erected in a section
of the religious house, which, since the Reformation,
was appropriated for the service of the Established
Church. Sir Christopher is represented on the
monument in a rich suit of armour, his head bare,
and his hands joined over his breast in a devotion-
al posture, his feet resting on the body of a grey-
hound. His Lady lies beside him, her cap round,
her ruffles high, her gown thickly plaited round the
waist, puffed on the shoulders, and richly embroidered;
her petticoat is designed as of cloth of gold, and from
her girdle hangs a chain of superior workmanship,
to which is appended a scapular two inches square ;
at her feet, which can scarcely be distinguished, is
placed a lapdog. Her hands, like those of her hus-
band, are crossed devoutly on her bosom, and the
head of each reposes on an embroidered pillow : the
sides are sculptured with armorials of the Dillons and

* Annals of the Four Masters.

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113

Barne walls.* The whole of this fine piece of sculp-
ture was smothered up since the Reformation, by the
steps and platform into a pulpit, which rested on the
face of the monument, and were so when the work
cited below was drawn up. A new church has been
since erected, and the monument now stands relieved
of the disfiguring woodwork, outside the walls of the
new edifice, but perhaps not less exposed to mutilation
and decay.

In the Parliament convened by Sir John Perrot,
which the native chiefs were first invited to attend,
Lord Trimleston sat as a Baron, while John Barnewall
was one of the Representatives for Drogheda, Robert
Barnewall for Ardee, and Richard Barnewall for the
County of Meath. In 1605, Sir Patrick Barnewall,
the active agent of the Recusants, was, on account of
his zeal in their service, sent over to London, and
committed to the Tower. f At the hill of Crofty,
where the Civil war of 1641 first broke out, on the
summons of Lord Gormanston, who had taken an
active part in the politics of the day, Lord Trimleston,
five other Peers of the Pale, Sir Patrick Barnewall,
and Patrick Barnewall of Kilbrue, with one thousand
others of its leading gentry, were, according to
a preconcerted arrangement, there met by Roger
Moore and others, the leaders of the Ulster move-
ment, attended by a detachment of their forces ; when
an interesting parley took place, which may be seen
as below referred to.J It was then that, affecting a

* D1 Alton's Co. Dub. p. 415. f Idem, p. 306.

I D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 457.

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show of confidence in these Palesmen, the Lords Just-
ices and Council directed a commission for the
government of the County of Dublin, to Nicholas
Barnewall, who was of the Turvey line, and repre-
sented that County in the Parliament of 1639.

On the attainders of 1642, are the names of Mat-
thew Barnewall of Bremore, County of Dublin ; Sir
Richard Barnewall and Christopher Barnewall of
Creekstown, County of Meath ; William of Stephens-
town ; George of Seneschalstown, County of Wicklow ;
Richard and Francis of Lispobel, County of Dublin ;
Andrew Barnewall of Lusk, Andrew of Kilbrue,
Richard of Trimlestown, Simon of Cooledarry, Rich-
ard and Robert of Rossetown, James of Rathregan,
George of Sprucklestown, County of Meath, and
Gerald of Robertstown, ditto. Amongst the Con-
federates of Kilkenny in 1646 were George Barne-
wall of Creekstown, Henry Barnewall of Castle-
rickard, James and Sir Richard Barnewall of Creeks-
town. This last was denounced by Cromwell's Act
of 1652, and transplanted into Connaught ; but the
Act of Settlement provided for the restoration of his
estates, as also for those of Lord Trimleston, who had
been likewise denounced by Cromwell. These two
Barnewalls were included in the Royal Thanks' clause
of that statute.

In King James's Charters, John Barnewall was
named Recorder of Dublin, Matthew Barnewall one
of its Aldermen, and Nicholas a Burgess. Richard
was a Burgess in that to Carysfort ; while in that

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to Swords, Lord Eingsland headed the Roll, and
Robert, Richard, James, and Nicholas Barnewall
were named Burgesses. Lord Trimleston was at
the head of the Municipal Roll of Trim, on which
Francis and Nicholas Barnewall were subsequently
named Burgesses. In that to Kells, Francis Barne-
wall was a Burgess, and James in that to Mary-
borough. These two Lords, Trimleston and Kings-
land, sat amongst the Peers in the Parliament of
1689 ; while in the Commons, Francis Barnewall of
Woodpark, County of Meath, was one of the Repre-
sentatives of the Borough of Swords ; as was Sir
Patrick Barnewall one for the County of Meath. In
the Pension List of 1687-8, the name of Lord Trim-
leston appears for a pension of £100 per annum,
which may explain the occurrence of this represent-
ative of so ancient a family being but a Captain in
the Regiment. In the Royal Infantry, William
Fitz-William Barnewall was a Lieutenant, while Ro-
bert Barnewall was an Ensign. In Fitz-James's,
James Barnewall was a Lieutenant ; in the Earl of
Westmeath's, Miles was an Ensign ; and in Tyrcon-
nel's, as shown before, George and Nicholas Barnewall
were Lieutenants. At the siege of Derry, a Captain
and an Ensign Barnewall were killed.*

The attainders of 1691 include Matthew, Lord
Trimleston, by three Inquisitions, one in Meath and
two in Kildare ; Patrick and Richard Barnewall of
Newcastle, County of Meath ; Matthew of Archers-

* Walker's Derry, p. Gl.

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town and Cruiserath ; Henry of Kilmainham,
Dominick and Sylvester of Arrolstown, Christopher
of Portlester and Moylough, Bartholomew and Patrick
of Crickstown, Simon and Patrick of Kilbrue, Nicholas
of Begstown, James of Dunbro', George Barnewall
(son of the Countess Dowager of Fingal) of Westown ;
John of Dublin, Knight ; Bobert Barnewall of Dublin,
Alderman ; Nicholas Barnewall of Dublin, merchant ;
and George of Kathesker, County of Louth.

At the Court of Claims, Bridget Barnewall claimed
a rent-charge on Trimlestown ; Thomasina Barnewall,
alias Preston, claimed an estate in fee in King's
County lands, forfeited by Sir John Barnewall ; Eliza
Barnewall, dower off all the lands forfeited by Matthew
Barnewall ; Cicely Barnewall, alias Hussey, widow,
jointure off forfeitures of Dominick Barnewall. On the
latter forfeitures, John Barnewall claimed interests on
behalf of himself and five children of his second
brother ; his claims were, however, dismist ; while
John Barnewall, " called Lord Trimleston," claimed
and was allowed a remainder in tail on Trimlestown,
forfeited by Matthias, Lord Trimlestown, subject to a
claim of Mary Barnewall for a portion.

On the formation of the Irish Brigade in France,
Alexander Barnewall was constituted Lieutenant-
Colonel in Lord Clare's 4 Queen's Dismounted Dra-
goons,' * while, about the same time, Lord Trimleston
had three sons in foreign service, Thomas in France,
James in Spain, and Anthony, who went into

* (/Conor1 s Military Memoirs, p. 198.

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Germany at the age of seventeen, in General Hamil-
ton's Regiment of Cuirassiers. He was engaged in
every battle against the Turks until cut down at the
battle of Critzka in 1739.

In 1745, amongst the adherents of the Stuart
dynasty, who were crossing the sea for the expedition
into Scotland, Lieutenant George Barnewall, of
Berwick's Regiment, was taken prisoner off Montrose,
on board the ' Louis the Fifteenth,' by the 4 Milford ;'
as was another Lieutenant Barnewall on board the
Charite, in 1746. Lieutenants William, Edward,
and Basil Barnewall were also captured at sea, being
enrolled in the same service. At the battle of Lauf-
field, in 1747, Captain Bryan Barnewall, being then
in Clare's Regiment, was killed ; while in Berwick's,
Captains Edward and Thomas Barnewall were badly
wounded.* In 1795, Lord Trimleston, father of the
present Peer, obtained an absolute reversal of the out-
lawry which affected the title in his line.

[ CAPTAIN DENIS O'KELLY. ]

This young officer was, as particularly noted in Mr.
O'Callaghan's ably edited Excidium Macarice, the
son and heir of Colonel Charles O'Kelly of Screen,
County of Gal way, the author of that work. That
father was the eldest son of John O'Kelly, born in
1621, educated at St. Omer ; and when, in twenty

* Gent. Mag., ad arm., p. 377.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST,

years after, the great Civil war broke out, he was
called over to Ireland to support the Koyal cause, he,
by his services on that momentous occasion, so
deeply incurred the odium and hostility of the usurp-
ing power, that in prudence he expatriated himself
to Spain,bringing with him thither two thousand of his
countrymen. In that country he for a time served
the interest of Charles the Second, whom he after-
wards followed to France, where a Eegiment was
formed chiefly of his own officers and Irish soldiers,
and which he was commissioned to command. Thence
he returned to Spain, on Charles being obliged to seek
protection there ; and remained in the latter country
until the Restoration, when he came to live in
England. In 1674, on the death of his father, (said
John O'Kelly) he succeeded to the family estate of
Screen. In the new Charter of 1687, granted to
Athlone by James the Second, this Charles O'Kelly
was nominated one of the Burgesses ; and, in the
Parliament of 1689, he sat as one of the members for
the County of Roscommon. In the summer of that
year, he was commissioned to raise a Regiment of In-
fantry for King James, to be commanded by himself,
with his brother John, (who was at the same time one
of the Representatives of the Borough of Roscommon)
as his Lieutenant-Colonel. His Regiment does not
appear in this Army List, nor was it long kept up ;
but Colonel Charles's eldest son, the above Denis, was
transferred to Lord Galmoy's Horse, as above. When
affairs in Ulster were beginning to wear an untoward

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119

aspect, Colonel Charles, though then sixty-eight years
of age, was selected by Brigadier Sarsfield to oppose
the enemy in Connaught, with such force of the
country militia as he could collect. With this object,
he advanced to Boyle, but was there overthrown with
considerable loss by Colonel Thomas Lloyd, popularly
styled " the little Cromwell." Story says* that the
Colonel was here taken prisoner, " with forty more
officers and a body of about 8,000 cattle." From
that period certainly no mention is made of him or
any of his family, until the battle of Aughrim, where
the horse of this Captain Denis was shot under him.
After the surrender of Galway, when the attention of
King William's Brigadier was directed to the Isle of
Boffin, then held with a garrison for King James by
Colonel Timothy Reyrdon (O'Eierdon) as its go-
vernor, and its capitulation was necessitated, one of
the articles prescribed that Lieutenant- Colonel John
Kelly, and all the inhabitants of said island, shall
possess and enjoy their estates, as held under the Act
of Settlement ; and the said Lieutenant-Colonel, and
Captain Eichard Martin, were given as sureties for
the due ratification thereof. After its surrender he
retired to his family residence, where he devoted his
remaining years to literature and religion, his first
patriotic labour having been the Excidium Macarice,
often cited herein. The family estates of this branch
of the O'Kellys were secured by the Treaty of Lime-
rick ; and consequently, on the death of the Colonel,

* Impartial History, part 1, p. 25.

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which took place in 1695, Captain Denis succeeded
to it. Under a suspicion of being concerned in a plot
to restore the House of Stuart, he was committed to
the Tower in 1722 ; but, by an order of Council, was
admitted to bail in the following year ; and, appear-
ing upon his recognizance within a few months after,
was fully discharged. He had married in 1702 Lady
Mary Belle w, daughter of Lord Bellew and niece to
Lord Strafford, by whom he had a son, Thomas
O'Kelly, born in 1704 ; and daughters. This son
died in 1704. His father survived to 1740, when
with him the male line of Colonel O'Kelly became
extinct. Denis Henry Kelly of Castle Kelly is the
lineal male descendant of John O'Kelly, before men-
tioned as having been the brother of Colonel Charles.

Amongst the O'Kellys attainted in 1642 were
William O'Kelly of Adamstown, and Shaun O'Kelly
of Ballaghmoon, County of Kildare ; John Kelly of
Trimbleston, Richard of Pasloeston, Matthew and
James of Lusk, Bartholomew Kelly and James Kelly
the younger of Lusk, Thomas O'Kelly of Ballyowen,
in the County of Dublin, and William Kelly of
Allenstown, County of Meath. — Of the Confederate
Catholics at Kilkenny, were Daniel O'Kelly of Colan-
geere and John O'Kelly styled of Corbeg.

The Act of Settlement provided that Colonel John
Kelly of Serine should be restored to his estate ; and
the clause declaratory of Eoyal gratitude for services
beyond the seas, includes the names of Ensign Kelly
and Captain Charles Kelly of Serine.

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In 1686, John O'Kelly of Clonlyon, the before-
mentioned brother of Colonel Charles (ancestor of the
Castle Kelly line, as well as of that which settled in
France, known as Counts O'Kelly Farrell), was She-
riff of Galway, as was EdAvard Kelly of Dublin in
the following year. This Edward was a Burgess
in the new Charter to Dublin ; Kobert in that to
Carlow ; Colonel Charles, Laurence, and Edmund
O'Kelly were Burgesses in that to Athlone ; while
Thomas O'Kelly was Bailiff therein ; John was a
Burgess in that to Tuam, Denis in that to Athenry,
Daniel in Boyle, Hugh in Castlebar ; and in that to
Roscommon, Charles, John, Edmund, and Hugh Kelly
were Burgesses ; the Milesian 6 0 • being omitted
in many instances.

On the present Army List, besides Captain Denis
Kelly in this Eegiment, John Kelly was Quarter-
Master to Lord Galmoy's own troop therein ; Bryan
Kelly was Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Luttrell's
Horse ; Thomas Kelly a Cornet in Lord Dongan's
Dragoons ; Constant Kelly a Quarter-Master in the
Regiment of Sir Neill O'Neill. In the Earl of
Clanricarde's Infantry, Teigue O'Kelly was Lieute-
nant, and Bryan and William Kelly Ensigns. In
Lord Galway's Foot, William Kelly was a Lieutenant.
In Lord Slane's, Richard Kelly was a Captain ; Mau-
rice Kelly was a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's.
In Lord Boffin's, Hugh Kelly was an Ensign. In
Colonel O'Gara's, Daniel and John Kelly were Cap-
tains, and another Daniel Kelly an Ensign. In Sir

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Michael Creagh's, George Kelly was an Ensign ; as
was Hugh Kelly in Colonel He ward Oxburgh's. A
Lieutenant Kelly was killed at the siege of Derry ;*
and in the list of general and field officers taken at
the battle of Aughrim, a Major Kelly is particularly
noticed, f

The attainders of 1691 comprise John Kelly of
Athlone, Laurence of Dunavally, Charles and John
of Athlone, Edward of Athlone, merchant ; Thomas of
Clonbrush ; Hubert of Waterstown, County of Car-
low ; Constantine of Old Leighlin, County of Carlow ;
Nicholas of Gowran, County of Kilkenny ; Garrett
of Cadamstown, County of Kildare, and of Ross,
County of Wexford ; Patrick O'Kelly of the County
of Down ; Hugh Kelly of Drumballyryny, ditto ;
Thaddeus O'Kelly of Bolies, ditto ; William Kelly of
Coolenbrack, Queen's County ; Terence and Thomas
of Ballyrahin, ditto ; John and Dominick Kelly of
Gort ; Loughlin Kelly of Ardgool, County of Mayo,
clerk ; Bryan Kelly of the County of Galway ; Oli-
ver of Fidane, ditto ; Philip Kelly of Waterford ;
Laurence Kelly of the County of Roscommon ; Far-
gus Kelly of ditto ; and James Kelly of the County
of Galway.

At the Court of Claims, in 1700, Timothy Kelly
claimed a fee in County of Roscommon lands, forfeited
by Hugh Kelly, — dismist ; John Kelly petitioned
for a leasehold interest in the County of Galway, for-

* Walker's Derry, p. 60.

f Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 137.

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feited by the Earl of Clanricarde, — dismist ; William
Kelly and Clare his wife sought to recover a jointure
off lands in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon,
•forfeited by Laurence Kelly, — dismist ; while in the
latter lands Francis and Margaret ' Kelley,' minors,
claimed by their guardians certain remainders, — dis-
allowed. Mary Kelly claimed and was allowed her
jointure off Roscommon lands forfeited by Fargus
Kelly. Denis Kelly claimed a leasehold in County
of Roscommon lands, — disallowed. Edmund Kelly, as
son, heir, and administrator of Colonel Edmund Kelly,
claimed and was allowed a freehold in County of
Galway lands forfeited by Lord Yiscount Galmoy.
John Kelly, Junior, by John Kelly his father, sought
a remainder for years in Roscommon lands forfeited
by Loughlin Kelly ; while John, son of Daniel Kelly,
claimed and was allowed the fee of said lands. Hugh
Kelly of Cultraghbeg claimed the fee thereof, forfeited
by Hugh Kelly of Ballyforan ; but his petition was
dismissed. Bryan Kelly claimed, as surviving bro-
ther of Hugh Kelly, who was heir of Loughlen Kelly,
an equity of redemption affecting Galway lands for-
feited by John, son and heir of Edmund Kelly.
Hugh Kelly, a minor, claimed and was allowed a
remainder in tail in Galway lands forfeited by Hugh
Kelly of Ballyforan ; while Bryan Kelly, as eldest
son of said Hugh, claimed and was allowed an estate
tail in said lands, which comprised Ballyforan, &c;
and Mary Kelly, alias Donnelan, claimed jointure off
Galway lands forfeited by Edmund Kelly, — dismist.

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So much has been published concerning this ancient
Irish sept in Burke's Landed Gentry, and in the 1 Hy
Maine' of the Irish Archaeological Society, that it
would not be justifiable to transfer their details to*
these pages. It may be remarked, however, that the
Chancery Records yet further illustrate the annals,
possessions, and lineage of this family, even from the
year (1314) when Edward the Second directed his
special missive to Gilbert O'Kelly, ' Duci Hiberni-
corum de O'Many.'* Of their continental reputation
it may be noticed as a fragment, that, in 1699, Wil-
liam O'Kelly, ' born in the parish of Aughrim,'obtained
from the Emperor Leopold the chairs of Philosophy,
History, and Heraldry, with many other honours.f —
In 1747, Lieutenant William Kelly, of Lally's Regi-
ment, was one of the wounded at the battle of Lauf-
field.

LIEUTENANT MATTHEW COOKE.

This officer is described in the Inquisition taken on
his attainder as of Painstown, County of Carlow.
George Cooke, a Quarter-master in the same com-
pany of this Regiment, was, it may be presumed, a
relative of Matthew. The only individual of the
name outlawed in 1642, was Thomas Cooke, de-
scribed as ' of Beldoyle.' Other Cookes, projected to
notice about this time, were John Cooke, a Justice

* Rymer's Focdera.

f Ware's Writers, p. 287.

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of the Bench during the Commonwealth ; and Colonel
George Cooke, whose relict and children the Act of
Settlement confirmed in their estate. It also saved

the right of Cook, an infant, 1 grandchild to

Sir John Cook,' in lands of Feartry, County of Wick-
low. In King James's Charter to Carlo w, William
Cook was a Burgess, as was Peter Cook in that to
Fethard. Amongst those attainted in 1691 were
Marcus Cooke of Cradany, the above Matthew of
Painstown, County of Carlow, and John Cooke of
Bally haurigan, County of Kerry. On these lands of
Painstown, with which Lieutenant Matthew was so
connected, William Cooke was a claimant for the fee
under a conveyance of 1684, witnessed by the said
Matthew, and of which the late proprietor was Dud-
ley Bagnall. His claim was allowed, as was also
that of Thomas Cooke for the fee of forfeited lands in
the County of Cork.

LIEUTENANT GEORGE GERNON.

The name of Gernon appears of Irish record and
history from a very early period. When Edward
Bruce invaded Ireland in 1315, Roger Gernon and
John Gernon his brother were of the King's lieges
who vigorously opposed his incursion. Early in the
reign of Edward the Third, the said Roger and J ohn,
styled of Killingcoole, were summoned to attend John
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his expedition to Scotland ; the latter (John) Ger-
non was in eight years after (1344) appointed a
Justice of the Bench, while in 1374 Roger Gernon was
constituted a Baron of Parliament by writ.*

The George Gernon here under consideration was,
as described in his outlawry, of Dunany in the
County of Louth, a locality more anciently included
in Gernonstown ; and was also seized of estates in
the County of Eoscommon, the fee of which was
claimed before the Court at Chichester House in
1703, by Edward Gernon, who appears to have been
his son. George Gernon was one of the Catholics
admitted to the freedom of Drogheda under the new
Charter of 1685. In that to Drogheda Hugh and
Bartholomew Gernon were Aldermen, and in that to
Ardee James Gernon was named Provost, Hugh Ger-
non a Burgess, and Thomas Gernon Town-clerk.
Martin Gernon was one of the Burgesses in that to
Belfast. Hugh, the Burgess of Ardee, was one of its
Representatives in the Parliament of 1689.

But one other of the name appears on this Muster
Roll, a John Gernon, who also was a Lieutenant in
Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry.

The outlawries of 1691, besides that of Lieutenant
George, record the names of Nicholas Gernon, of Ju-
lianstown, County of Meath, who died at the close of
the year 1689 ;f Hugh Gernon of Ardee and Killing-
cool, Thomas Gernon of Dublin, George, as i son of

* Burke's Ext. Peer. p. 708.

t Inquisition, 3 Will. & Mary, in Cane. Hib.

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Roger ' Gernon of Dunany, Bartholomew of Drogheda,
Patrick and Edward also of Dunany, Richard of Sta-
bannon, Martin of Crookedstone, and Nicholas of
Clough, County of Antrim. The greater part of the
Gernon estates were granted in 1694 to Colonel
Henry Baker, who did such service for King William
at Derry. The claims at Chichester House were,
Patrick Gernon's for a remainder in tail in Killing-
coole and other Louth lands forfeited by Hugh
Gernon ; and his claim was allowed ; Edward Ger-
non's for a similar remainder in Dromisken and other
Louth lands forfeited by Nicholas Gernon ; but his
claim was not allowed. The above Martin Gernon
of Crookedstone claimed various interests affecting
the lands of Sir Neill O'Neill in Antrim ; — petition
dismist.

LIEUTENANT PATRICK KEARNEY.

O'Dugan, in his Topography of Ireland, locates the
sept of O'Kearney in that part of Meath (Westmeath)
called Teffia. A clan of the name is placed near
Kinsale in the County of Cork on Ortelius's map,
and they also appear to have been territorial in the
Baronies of Tulla and Bunratty, County of Clare.
The elder family of this name, those of Teffia, took
the cognomen of Sionnach (Fox), by which English
appellation one of the family got the title of Baron
of Kilcoursey in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In

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1095, Carbrie 'O'Kerny' was Bishop of Ferns." .In
1198, Giolla Criost 1 O'Cearney' was elected Abbot of
Derry-Columb-kille, ' by the Chiefs and Clergy of the
North of Ireland ;' he was afterwards appointed
Bishop of Connor, to which See James O'Kerny was
appointed Bishop in 1324. In 1571, a John Kerny

is remembered as one who, in connection with

Walsh, then Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin, first introduced Irish types, and was himself
author of the earliest catechism printed in that lan-
guage. About the year 1601 he died.

This Lieutenant Patrick appears, from an ancient
pedigree in the Trinity College Collection (F. iii. 27),
to have been of a Tipperary branch of this family ;
thus : Daniel Kearney of Ballyknock in that County,
in the middle of the sixteenth century, married Alice,
daughter of William Butler ; his grandson Patrick
Kearney married Ellen, daughter of Teigue c Cur-
rane' of Mohernan in the same County, and died in
1G41 at the advanced age of eighty. His son, Brien
Kearney, whom Patrick survived, left two sons,
Donogh and Edmund : the eldest, Donogh, married
Alice, daughter of Patrick Comerford of Modeshill,
in the same County, and had by her three sons,
Patrick, (the above Lieutenant, as it is surmised),
Michael, and Nicholas, and a daughter.

The attainders of 1642 present but William Ker-
ney of Wicklow, while amongst the Confederate
Catholics of Kilkenny was only James O'Kearney of
Ballyluskey. In 1685, Sir Richard 'Carney' was

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Ulster King of Arms. In the New Charters of King
James that immediately succeeded, John Kearney
was Town Clerk in that to Dublin, as also in that to
Carlow. Thomas Kearney was appointed Sovereign
in that to Kilmallock, in which a Patrick Kearney
was a Burgess. Denis Kearney was a Burgess in that
to Fetkard, while a Patrick Kearney was Eecorder and
Town Clerk. Philip Kearney was Town Clerk in
that to Blessington, Denis Kearney in that to Tho-
mastown ; and in the Charter to Cashel Patrick
Kearney was named an Alderman, while Edmund,
John, Paul senior, and Paul junior were Burgesses
therein. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) Dennis
Kearney was one of the Kepresentatives of the Bo-
rough of Cashel.

A few months before the battle of the Boyne, King
James appointed Patrick Kearney to the office of
1 Comptroller of the Pipe and second Engrosser of the
Great Poll of the Pipe of the Exchequer of Ireland.*'
In this Army List, a Michael Kearney was a Lieute-
nant in Colonel Purcell's Horse, and he would seem
to be the second son of Donogh by Alice Comerford,
and brother to Lieutenant Patrick. It is mentioned
in King James's Memoirs that, before Schomberg had
landed in Ireland, a Sir Charles 'Carney' was by
order of that King stationed at Coleraine with one or
two Regiments, and another higher up upon the Ban
water, to secure that river ; that, on Schomberg's
landing, he was ordered to retire, "for fear of being

* Rolls Office Index, James II. f. 72.

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cut off by the enemy ;" and that ultimately he com-
manded the reserve at the Boyne.* The attainders
of 1691 include Murtagh 'Kearny' of Athlone, John
Kearney of Dublin, Denis of Cashel, John of Parks-
town, County of Kilkenny ; Nicholas 4 Karney' of
Athfane, County of Waterford ; Moriarty Kearney of
Clonmacnoise, King's County, clerk ; John of Por-
tumna, County of Galway ; James of the Barony of
Muskerry, and John and Richard Kearney of Cork.
At the Court of Claims, Anstace Kearney, as widow
of Edmund Kearney, sought dower off County of
Cork lands forfeited by James Kearney ; but her
petition was dismist. Richard Kearney, as " only
son or executor" of Daniel Kearney, claimed and was
allowed a freehold remainder in estates in Tipperary
forfeited by Sir John Everard of Fethard ; while
Mary Kearney, alias Comerford, and James Kearney,
administrators of Bryan Kearney, claimed and
were allowed leaseholds in said lands. At the
battle of Laufheld in 1747, Richard 4 Kearny' was
wounded fighting in Bulkeley's Irish Brigade, as was
also Lieutenant 'Kearny' in Lally's Regiment on the
same day.f

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, pp. 372 & 397.
f Gent. Mag., ad ann., p. 377.

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REGIMENTS OE HORSE.

PATRICK SARSFIELD'S (EARL OF LUCAN).

Captains.
The Colonel.

Lieutenants.
John Gavdon.

Cornets.
George Slaughter.

Almericus, Lord James St. John.
Kinsale, Lieut.
Colonel.

Roger McKettigan,
Major.

Quarter-Masters.
James Plunket.
Thomas Taaffe.

Rene de Came,
Daniel O'Neill.
John Bourke.
Thomas Burke,
Francis Nagle.

Thomas Leicester. Christopher FitzGerald. Thomas Lilly.

Rene Mazandier. James Purcell. William Synnott.

George Mayo. Edmund Morris.

Thomas Dempsey. Patrick Dillon. William Meagher.

Richard Tyrrell. Sylvester Devenish.

Richard Tyrrell. Edward Dowdall.

Murtogh O'Brien. Edward Butler.

John Macnamara. Piers Butler. Thomas Bourke.

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COLONEL PATRICK SARSFIELD.

Thomas de 1 Sarsefeld,' ' premier porte-banniere du Roi
Henri ii. A. D., 1172,' is said to be the first who
brought this surname into Ireland.* In 1302, King
Edward the First invited Thomas and Stephen de
' Saresfeld ' to aid him in the Scottish wars. In the
time of Edward the Third, Henry, son of David
Saresfeld, resided in the County of Cork. During the
same reign, a branch of the family settled in Meath,
one of whom, after some generations, stiled, ' of
Lucan,' sent two archers to the Hosting of Tara. In
1566, Sir "William Sarsfield of Lucan was knighted
by Sir Henry Sydney, for his services against Shane
O'Neill, and he was seneschal of the Royal manor of
Newcastle in 1591. In 1609, SirDominick Sarsfield,
being Premier Baronet of Ireland, and Chief Jus-
tice of Munster, was one of the three commissioners
whom King James assigned to demarcate the munici-
pal boundaries of Cork. In 1609, he was appointed
second justice of the Irish Court of King's Bench ;
in 1610, was promoted to the Chief Justiceship of the
Common Pleas, and in 1612, had a grant from that
Monarch of the Castle of Carriglemlary, with thirteen
plowlands, licence to export corn and victuals raised
on the premises free of all customs, with all tithes,
fisheries, courts of pie-poudre, and the usual tolls,
liberty to empark with free warren ; said Sir Domi-

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 119.

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nick being therefor bound to plant ninety families
on the lands. All these premises are stated to have
come to the Crown by the attainder of Philip Fitz-
Edmond Roche. In 1627, this Eoyal favourite was
unadvisedly created Lord Viscount of Kinsale, a title
for centuries maintained, with unbroken succession, in
the ancient and noble family of De Courcey ; where-
upon John Lord Courcey, existing Baron of Kinsale,
and Gerald his son, petitioned the King and Lords of
the Council in England, against Sarsfield's assumption
of the dignity. This petition was referred to the
Judges, who transferred the question to the Earl
Marshal of England, from whose Report it appeared
that the De Courceys had from time immemorial been
stiled Barons of Kinsale and Ringrone ; and he held
that to have two titles standing, one of the Barony in
de Courcey, and another of the Viscounty in Sarsfield,
would be an ill-confounding of titles of honour, and
that therefore Sir Dorninick, though he may retain
his rank, should take his title from some other place
in Ireland, or be called Viscount Sarsfield ; whereupon
he took that of Kilmallock. In the outlawries of
1642 appears the name of Peter Sarsfield of Tully
County of Kildare. His son Patrick* had two sons,
William of Lucan, who married Marie, sister of the
Duke of Monmouth ; and Patrick, the Colonel at pre-
sent under consideration. This latter uwas highly
accomplished, and in personal appearance of a tall
and manly figure ; he had been an Ensign in France

* Burke's Landed Gentry.

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in Monmouth's Regiment, and a Lieutenant of the
Guards in England."* When James came over to
Ireland, he ranked as a Brigadier-general, and by his
own influence had embodied this noble body of
Horse ; soon after which, by the death of his elder
brother William, s.p.m., he succeeded to the family
estates, then considered of the value of £2,000 per
annum. He was a Burgess in King James's Charter
to Middleton, while Dominick and James were Alder-
men in that to Cork, and John a Burgess in that to
Limerick.

In the Parliament of 1689, sat Dominick Sarsfield,
Viscount Kilmallock, of the Peers. He had a Regi-
ment of Infantry in this service, as shown hereafter ;
while, in others of this List, James Sarsfield was an
Ensign in Colonel Thomas Butler's, as was Joseph
Sarsfield in Colonel Charles O'Brien's, in which
Ignatius Sarsfield was a captain. This Ignatius was
the son of Patrick Sarsfield of Limerick, theretofore
Governor of Clare ; his descendants, of kindred col-
lateral to Colonel Patrick, bore the title of Counts of
Sarsfield in the French army.

Early in the Irish campaign, after Mountcashel's
defeat before Enniskillen, Sarsfield, then " a young
Captain beloved by the soldiery," was stationed with
some troops at Sligo, for the defence of Connaught
from the Ulster adherents of William ; a position
which he held until directed to remove, to maintain
Athlone against the meditated attack of Lieutenant-

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs.

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General James Douglas. The announcement of his
approach affected the object for the moment, General
Douglas retiring to rejoin his King. It is said of
Sarsfield that, even after King William had passed
the Boyne, he u implored James, before he left the hill
of Dunore, to strike another blow for empire." At
the first siege of Limerick, while Major-General
Boiseleau had the command of the Garrison, the Duke
of Berwick and Colonel Sarsfield were next under
him. The latter, pending the siege, (on the 12th
August) surprised, at Kelly-na-Mona, a convoy that
was conducting to the besiegers provisions and am-
munition. This gallant achievement is fully detailed
by Story, the Chaplain of King William. He spiked
their cannon and exploded their ammunition ; and the
same day re-entered Limerick amidst the triumphant
shouts of his fellow-soldiers, thenceforth more than ever
their idol. Encouraged by his daring exploit, those
who were wavering before abandoned all thoughts ot
capitulation.* On the 30th August, King William
directing his last assault upon the City, left 1200
regular troops killed in the trenches, and in five days
after embarked himself from Waterford to England.

When the Duke of Tyrconnel went to France, Sars-
field was one of those whom he put in commission to
direct the inexperienced Duke of Berwick ; to whom,
as before mentioned, he had entrusted the command
of the army. Soon afterwards the Duke and he
attacked the Castle of Birr, the family residence of

* Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 416.

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Sir Lawrence Parsons, ancestor of the present Earl
of Eosse ; "the principal design, however, of this
movement was to break down the bridge of Banagher,
bnt the attempt was fonnd too hazardous at that time,
not only as the enemy was very strong on the other
side, but as it was defended by a Castle and another
work which commanded it on two sides,"* and the
project was consequently abandoned. Sarsfield is
represented by Colonel O'Kelly, in the 'Excidium
Macarice] as suspecting Berwick about this time of
treacherous correspondence with his Uncle Colonel
Churchill, in King William's service.

Tyrconnel, when he returned from France, brought
with him a patent from King James, creating this
officer Earl of Lucan, Viscount of Tully, and Baron
of Eosberry; titles which King William's Chaplain,
Story, seems willing to concede to him, even after the
conclusion of the campaign. ' Lord Lucan,' he says,
' for so we may venture to call Lieutenant-General
Sarsfield, since the Articles of Limerick do it.' King
James then also constituted Sarsfield a Colonel of his
Life Guards, and Commander-in-chief of the Forces
in Ireland ; the last appointment proved however soon
but titular, as in May, 1691, the Marquess de St.
Euth landed, a foreigner placed over his head by the
French King. Yet no jealousy of Sarsfield at this
step induced him to abate his zeal for the cause he
had espoused ; and when, on Tyrconnel's death,
D'Usson, the senior officer, assumed the command of

* Harris's Life of William III.

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of Limerick, " Sarsfield attended to all the details,
superintended the repair of the fortifications, the
providing of ammunition and stores, watched the
motions and defeated the designs of the peace party.
His vigilance and activity admitted of no relaxation ;
his ardour inspired the troops with confidence."* At
the Battle of Aughrim he had been placed by St.
Ruth at the left wing of the Irish army, with positive
instructions not to stir from that position until he
received St. Ruth's orders, an injunction which held
him inactive until the death of that Commander
closed the contest, the more effectually as Sarsfield,
though second in command, was wholly ignorant of
the plans of his commander ; the officers of the Irish
army waited for orders, but none was there to give
them.f

Sarsfield, after long opposing the capitulation of
Limerick, excited much astonishment by ultimately
joining those who advocated it. Colonel O'Kelly
could not see any justification for this change of
opinion, and is the more inclined to impeach it, as,
pending the arrangement of the terms for surren-
der, this General dined with the Duke of Wurtem-
burgh in the English camp. O'Conor, in his 4 Military
Memoirs,' (p. 174) defends Sarsfield's motives in a
manner that would leave without stain the memory
of this truly illustrious Irishman. At a very ad-
vanced state of the siege, u his constancy gave way,

* O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 167.

t OVCallaghan's Excidium Macwice, p. 461.

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he apprehended probably that some of the gates or
works would be betrayed to the enemy, that the whole
garrison would be involved in the horrors of a town
taken by storm, and that no terms could in that case
be made for the religion or the nation. Overpowered
by such considerations, he ultimately acquiesced in
the wishes of the majority." The Treaty that he
sought proposed indemnity for the past, free liberty
of worship, security of titles and estates, admission to
all employments civil and military, and equal rights
with the Protestants in all the Corporations. Such
was the Treaty he sought; such he construed the
Articles of Limerick, to which he was an executing
party. He had however been himself previously at-
tainted on several Inquisitions taken in Dublin, Kil-
dare, Cork and Kerry ; Lady Honoria Sarsfield, his
wife, was also outlawed, as were Daniel and David
Sarsfield of Sarsfield's Court.

At the Court of Claims, Francis Sarsfield claimed
and was allowed a fee in lands at Saggard, County of
Dublin, forfeited by Patrick Sarsfield ; and in all his
other estates in the County of Kildare, &c. — Dominick,
James, and Patrick Sarsfield, minors, claimed, by their
father Dominick Sarsfield, an estate tail in Cork lands
of which he was the late occupant ; — disallowed. Pa-
trick Sarsfield, in behalf of his son John, a minor,
claimed an estate tail in Cork lands forfeited by the
said Patrick ; allowed, after the decease of John's
father and mother. Said Patrick Sarsfield also claim-
ed an estate tail in Lucan, Rathbride, &c. ; — dismist.

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The only existing male representative of this illus-
trious name now in Ireland appears to be Donii-
nick Konayne Sarsfield of Dough-Cloy ne, County of
Cork ; the lineal descendant of Dominick, the above
minor, claimant. William Sarsfield, the aforesaid
brother of the Earl of Lucan, left by the Duke of
Monmouth's sister a daughter Charlotte, who, after
the attainder and forfeiture of her uncle, obtained a
grant of some of his estates. She married Agmon-
disham Yesey, son of the Archbishop of Tuam, and
had by him two daughters ; Henrietta, who married
Caesar Colclough of Tintern Abbey, County of Wex-
ford ; and Anne, who married John Bingham of
Castlebar, ancestor of the present Earl of Lucan.

On the surrender of Limerick, Sarsfield sedulously
urged the removal of many of his old comrades to
France, with a sanguine hope of such aid from King
Louis as would secure their triumphant return.*
" The Irish Officers," says Harris, " went on board
with the best of their forces on the 22nd of Dec.
1691, and with them Sarsfield embarked to seek a
fortune in a strange country, when he might have re-
mained an ornament to his own ; but he was actu-
ated by a strong bias to what, in his opinion, was the
true religion, and by the false principle of honor and
loyalty to a Prince, who had made it the whole busi-
ness of his reign to overturn an established constitu-
tion." He landed in due course at Brest, with 4,500
of the expatriated Irish, while a remainder of 19,059

* O'Conor's Military Mem., p. 189.

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men and officers arrived in France about the same
time, in three other divisions,* all of whom King
James reviewed and regimented.f On Sarsfield's
arrival in France, that King appointed him to the
command of the second troop of Irish Horse Guards,
that of the first having been committed to the Duke
of Berwick. During the short interval that he out-
lived the Stuart Dynasty, he addressed various letters,
(offered for sale in the Southwell Collections some few
years since) signed by himself as Earl of Lucan, to De
Ginkle, Earl of Athlone ; in which he set forth the
displeasure of Louis the Fourteenth, by reason that
" the articles of the Capitulation of Limerick had not
been punctually performed," and requiring that the
delay to so doing should be removed with all imagina-
ble despatch. These communications passed in the
year 1692. In the following year, he fell on the field
of battle. "This year," (1693) says O'Conor, "is
memorable in the annals of the Irish Brigade, for the
death of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan. He had
been instrumental in bringing over a great part of the
Irish army to the service of France, and had the com-
mand of the troops destined for the invasion of Eng-
land. After the destruction of the French fleet off
La Hogue, the Irish troops marched to Alsace ; and
Sarsfield, at the close of 1692, was ordered to join
the French army in Flanders under the Duke of Lux-
embourg ; in 1693, he was killed in the battle of

* O'Conor's Military Mem, p. 193.
t 0'Calla.ghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 64.

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Landen, at the head of a French division. He fell
leading on the charge of strangers ; his contempora-
ries long deplored the loss of this gallant officer, and
his memory is still cherished with enthusiastic admi-
ration in his native country As a partisan, and

for desultory warfare, Sarsfield possessed admirable
qualifications. Brave, patient, vigilant, rapid, indefa-
tigable, ardent, adventurous, and enterprising ; the
foremost in the encounter, the last to retreat ; he har-
rassed his enemy by sudden, unexpected, and gener-
ally irresistible attacks ; inspiring his troops with the
same ardour and contempt of danger with which his
own soul was animated. His valour prolonged the
contest in Ireland, and if he had but possessed a cor-
responding degree of military skill, might materially

have altered the issue of the contest."* " Patrick

Sarsfield," writes a more recent biographer, " may be
quoted as a type of loyalty and patriotic devotion. In
the annals of Irish History he stands as a parallel to
Pierre du Terrail, Chevalier de Bayard, in those of
France, and may be equally accounted 4 sans peur et
sans reproche.' In his public actions firm and consis-
tent, in his private character amiable and unblem-
ished ; attached, by religious conviction and heredi-
tary reverence for the ' right divine ' of Kings, to the
falling House of Stuart, he drew a sharp sword in the
cause of the Monarch he had been brought up to be-
lieve his lawful sovereign, and voluntarily followed

* O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 222.

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him into exile when he could wield it no longer."*
Arminius was never more popular among the Ger-
mans than was Sarsfield among the Irish.

He had married the Lady Honoria de Burgh,
daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, by whom he had
one son, James Edward Francis, of whom see ante, p.
27. He fought under his illustrious stepfather, the
Marshal Duke of Berwick, in Spain, and was honor-
ably provided for by King Philip the Fifth. The
Earl of Lucan left also one daughter, who intermar-
ried with the well-known Baron Theodore de New-
burgh, King of Corsica. Sarsfield's widow married
the Duke of Berwick in 1695, by whom she had
issue as before mentioned. Soon after the death of
Lord Lucan, in October, 1693, King James appointed
Donough McCarthy, Earl of Clancarthy, his succes-
sor in the command of the second troop of Guards.f
A Captain Peter Drake, of Drake-Rath, County of
Meath, who left Ireland on the fall of James the
Second's cause, says in a diary kept by him, " From
Paris I went (in 1694) to St. Germains, where I met
with Mrs. Sarsfield, mother of Lord Lucan, and her
two daughters, Ladies Kilmallock and Mount Leins-
ter ; the eldest of whom, Lady Kilmallock, was my
godmother. These ladies, though supported by small
pensions," adds the Captain, " received me with great
generosity, and treated me with much good nature. J

,* Dublin University Magazine, November, 1823.
t O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 135.
X Cited, Idem, p. 334.

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Of the many Sarsfielcls distinguished in the armies
of the Continent, see O'Callaghan's History of the
Irish Brigades, (vol. 1, p. 321) ; but they were, from
the fact stated, not of Patrick's descendants.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALMERIC DE
COURCY, LORD KINSALE.

This noble family claims alliance with most of the
Royal Houses of Europe ; paternally through the
Dukes of Lorraine, and maternally through those of
Normandy. Robert de Courcy accompanied William
the Conqueror to England, distinguished himself at
the battle of Hastings, and partook largely of the
spoils of the conquest, in grants of estates in Somerset
and Oxford Shires. His lineal descendant, Sir John
de Courcy, having signalised himself in the wars of
Henry the Second in England and Gascony, was sent
into Ireland in 1177, as an assistant to William Fitz-
Adelm in the government of that country. He it was
who, having obtained from King Henry the Second,
while in Ireland, a grant of Ulster, with the naive
proviso that he should first subdue it by the force
of his arms, invaded that province with twenty-two
Knights, fifty Esquires, and about three hundred foot
soldiers ; where he did such ' service in the English in-
terest,' that the Annals of the North during his visita-
tion are but the chronicle of successful carnage. His

144 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

course was traced by ruined districts, depopulated vil-
lages, desecrated churches ; not, however, without found-
ing sundry other religious houses in atonement as at
Neddrum, the Black Abbey, Iniscourcy, Tobberglory,
&c. His achievements acquired for him the dignity
of Earl of Ulster, but afterwards incurring the dis-
pleasure of King John, he was only released from its
infliction on succeeding against a French Champion
in a wager of battle, concerning the very important
political question of the day, the Royal right to Nor-
mandy. John then also conferred upon him that
privilege, which has been since sometimes asserted
by his descendants, of wearing the head covered in
the presence of Majesty. Henry the Third rewarded
his son Miles more substantially with the Barony of
Kinsale. In 1302, Nicholas de Courcy was one of the
Magnates of Ireland who attended, on summons,
Richard de Burgo in the wars of Scotland.*

The Lieutenant-Colonel here under consideration
was Almericus de Courcy, the twenty-third in the suc-
cession of that ancient Baronage. He succeeded to
the title in 1669, being then only five years old, and
was sent early to Oxford ; where his education was
conducted under the eye of the famous John Fell,
Dean of Christ Church, and Bishop of Oxford ; whose
letters in 1677-8 represent his young Lordship as
" addicted to the tennis court, proof against all
Latin assaults, and prone to kicking, beating, and
domineering over his sisters ; fortified in the

* Burke's Peerage.

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conceit that a title of honor was support enough, with-
out the pedantry and trouble of book-learning."* One
of these sisters, Ellen, was married to Sir John
Magrath, of Attivolan, County of Tipperary, who was
created a Baron under singular circumstances here-
after alluded to at that name. This Lord's first posi-
tion in King James's service was as Captain of a
Troop of Horse ; he was afterwards raised to this
Lieutenant- Colonelcy in Sarsfield's Eegiment, and
enjoyed the continuance of a pension which had been
previously granted to the 22 nd Lord by Charles the
Second. He sat as a Peer in the Parliament of 1689 ;
while in the Commons, on that occasion, Miles de
Courcy was one of the Kepresentatives of Kinsale,
That Miles was a Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's
Infantry, as was also Garrett 1 Coursey ' and another
Garrett Coursy, a Lieutenant.

The Baron was attainted in 1691, but the outlawry
having been subsequently reversed, he, in October,
1692, took his seat in the House of Peers of Ire-
land, and sat a second time in 1719 ; at the close of
which year (Feb. 9th) he died, and was buried in West-
minster Abbey. He left no issue, whereupon his
cousin-german, Myles de ' Coursy,' the Captain in
Major-General Boiseleau's Foot, succeeded to the
title. f

* Catal. Southwell MSS., p. 391.
t Crossley's Peerage, p. 208.

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MAJOR ROGER 4 M'KETTIGAN.'

This Sept were anciently the territorial proprietors of
Clan-diarmada, a denomination still recognisable in
the parish of Clan-dermot, County of Derry, over
which County and that of Donegal the name is still
extant. It was borne by a late Roman Catholic
Bishop of Raphoe, Dr. Patrick 4 Mc Gettigan.'

CAPTAIN RENE DE CARNE.

He being one of the French Officers, as was Lieute-
nant Rene Mezandine, they and others of that nation
in the Roll are not within the scope of the present
Illustrations. Of Captain Rene de Carne, however,
it may be observed that, on the formation of the Irish
Brigade, called the Queen's Own, this Captain was ap-
pointed its Lieutenant-Colonel, as before mentioned,
ante p. 105.

CAPTAIN FRANCIS NAGLE.

This is one of the families that branched from
Gilbert de Angulo, who came into Ireland with
Strongbow, and altered the name into Nangle in the
County of Meath, and Nagle in Cork. A Manuscript
Book of Obits, &c. in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. 3,
27) gives links of the lineage of the Nagles of

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Monanimy, County of Cork, for nine generations in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The attainders
of 1642 include the names of Richard Nagle and
John Nagle of that place. The Declaration of Royal
gratitude from Charles the Second, for services beyond
the seas, makes special mention of Pierce Nagle, also
of Monanimy. In King James's New Charters to
the Corporations of Ireland, David Nagle was an
Alderman in that to Cork, wherein Peter Nagle was
a Burgess. In that to Mallow, Piers, David, and
Edward were Burgesses ; to Dungarvan, Peter and
Andrew were named Burgesses, and William Nagle,
Town Clerk. James was Town Clerk in those to
Trim and Belturbet. In that to Charleville, David,
Piers, Richard, John, and James Nagle were named
Burgesses ; while last in that to Youghal, Piers,
Andrew, and William Nagle were Burgesses ; Sir
Richard Nagle was an Alderman.

This latter individual, the most memorable of his
name at that period, (often called ' Nangle' in Lord
Clarendon's Letters) was " an active and skilful
lawyer of the Popish party,"* knighted on being
appointed King James's Attorney-General for Ireland.
Tyrconnel, who particularly admired his shrewdness,
brought him with him to England " in June, 1685,
after having disbanded a great part of the Officers of
the Irish Army. The Earl Powis, Lord Bellasis, and

* Leland's Ireland, v. 8, p. 515. King says he was originally
designed for the Roman Catholic priesthood. — State of the Pro-
testants, p. 73.

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other Lords were so exasperated on being informed of
Nagle's arrival, that they would have him expelled
from London immediately. As it was, some time
elapsed before he was admitted to kiss the King's
hand ; however, to complete in private what he
dared not attempt upon the public, it was agreed
among them that Nagle should set forth, by way of
a letter to a friend, the great injustice and oppression
of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, to open
a way to their repeal ; the time being now thought
favourable for that purpose, when the King, who,
while Duke of York, had always patronised the
scheme, avowed himself ready to countenance it with
all his power, and no Parliament was at present
sitting to control his proceedings. In the following
year, accordingly, Nagle wrote this letter (October,
1686) to Tyrconnel, with great virulence and ran-
cour, and not without a considerable share of sophis-
try and cunning. He laid the scene at Coventry,
and introduced it as the fruits of two sleepless hours
there, whence it took the name of ' the Coventry
Letter ;' whereas it was the labour of so many weeks
in London. In this letter he endeavours to show
some nullities and invalidities in the said Acts, and
confidently affirmed that it was not for murder or
rebellion, but for religion that the estates of the
Irish were sequestered, and mainly insisted on the
inconvenience that would accrue to the Popish inte-
rest by the continuance of these Acts. His invectives
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that he dared not to own his production ; but in
Ireland gave out that he would arrest any man in
an action of £10,000, who should presume to father
it on him. Yet afterwards, when Speaker of James's
Irish Parliament, he pleaded it as a merit, and the
Repeal of the Acts was urged, founded on his argu-
ments."* His presence at the Conference which
King James held at Chester, in 1687, was thus
necessitated ; and accordingly, in the Rolls Office of
Ireland is preserved a licence of absence to Sir
• Richard Nagle for one month, under the Lord
Deputy's warrant, dated 18th August, 1687, nine
days before the King came up to Chester.

On the assembling of the Parliament of Dublin in
1689, he was elected their Speaker.f He sat as one
of the Representatives of Cork, and was, as might be
expected, one of the most violent impugners of the
Act of Settlement. In the summer of that year, on
the retirement of Lord Melfort, he was, by the Duke
of Tyrconnel's interest, appointed Secretary of State,
as well as Secretary of War to His Majesty. After
the defeat at the Boyne, he was one of the Council
whom King James, on his arrival in Dublin, con-
vened to advise proceedings. " They were all unani-
mously of opinion that he should lose no time in
going to France, otherwise he would run a great risk
of being taken by the enemy, who they believed

* The original letter was sold in the Southwell MSS. — See
Thorpe's Catalogue, pp. 223-4.

t Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 407-

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would be there next morning w* When, after the
first siege of Limerick, Tyrconnel went over to St.
Germains, he was accompanied by Sir Richard Nagle,
the duty of Secretary of State being confided in his
absence to the newly created Lord Riverston ; he
returned with the Duke in January, 1690, and, on
the death of that great man, he feelingly laments
the event in a letter, August, 1691, to Lord
Merrion, as " a fatal stroke to this poor country, in
this nick of time, the enemy being within four miles
of the town," adding, " he is to be buried privately
to-morrow, about ten of the clock at night. As he
appeared always zealous for his country, so his loss is
at this time extremely pernicious to this poor nation. "f
In the too confident contemplation of his death, a
Royal Commission had been fore-drawn, providing that
the Government should, in such event, be administered
by this Sir Richard Nagle, Francis Plowden, Com-
missioner of the Revenue (who brought it over), and
Baron Gawsworth the Lord Chancellor, as Lords
Justices, with the usual forms. J Sir Richard was
attainted by no less than seven Inquisitions. Im-
mediately on his outlawry, an order of the Govern-
ment issued, " requiring such persons as might
have papers or books of his in their custody at the
Castle of Dublin, to deliver same to George Clarke,
the new Secretary of War."§

* Clarke's James II., p. 401.

t O'Callaghan's Excidium Macaricr,, p. 472.

} Idem, pp. 478-0.

§ Clarke's MSS. T.C.D., Letter cclii.

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In the mean time, Sir Richard preferred adhering
to the fallen fortunes of the Stuart, rather than to
compromise with the new government. At the petty
court of St. Gerinains he still filled the office of
4 Secretary of State for Ireland,' while his son James
married in that country Margaret, daughter of Colonel
Walter Butler, one of the Officers of this list here-
after alluded to. Colonel O'Kelly speaks of Sir
Richard Nagle as "a person of ability and parts,
generally believed an honest man while the Duke
of Berwick, in his able memoir says, " he was a
courteous man, of good sense, and well skilled in his
profession, but by no means versed in the affairs of
state." Besides the above Captain Francis Nagle,
there are enrolled in Colonel Gordon O'Neill's Infantry,
Arthur i Nagle,' a Lieutenant, as was David Nagle
in Sir John Barrett's. This David was one of the
Representatives of Mallow in the Parliament of 1689.
The Nagles attainted in 1691, were Sir Richard, as
before mentioned, John Nagle of Dublin, James and
David of Carrigeen, County of Cork, Andrew of
Youghal, Piers of Annakissy, Garret of Drummins-
town, Richard of Shanballymore, all in the County,
and Peter of the City, of Cork. Sir Richard's for-
feitures extended over nearly 5000 acres in the
Baronies of Fermoy and Duhallow in this County,
also much in Waterford. David Nagle claimed and
was allowed an estate for lives in Cork lands ; while
James Nagle, by Michael Kearney his guardian,

* Excidium Macarice, p. 106.

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claimed certain rights in the Cork lands forfeited by
Piers of Annakissy, and was allowed same after the
death of Piers. Joan Butler, alias Everard, also
claimed the benefit of an assignment of the equity of
redemption in premises forfeited by said Piers.

At the battle of Lauffield, in 1747, a Francis
Nagle, of, it would seem, the kindred of the above
Officer, being then a Lieutenant in Bulkeley's
Brigade, was taken prisoner.

CAPTAIN JOHN MAC NAMARA.

This Sept were Chiefs of the territory now known
as the Barony of Tulla, with part of that of Bunratty,
County of Clare ; and enjoyed the rank of hereditary
marshals of the O'Briens, Kings of Thomond. They
were very powerful, and had many castles. In 1402,
Quin Abbey was founded in this County for Fran-
ciscan friars by Shedagh Cam Mac Namara, Lord of
Clan-Cuilein ; who appointed it the burial place for
himself and his posterity.* In 1408, Henry the
Fourth granted to Margaret, daughter of the Mac Na-
mara,' of the Irish Nation, that she and all her issue
might be free, and use the English habit and law.
In 1496, the Castle of Feyback was taken by the
Lord Deputy from Eugene Mc Namara. In 1543,
the Privy Council of Ireland transmitted a recom-
mendation to the King, advising his Majesty that " an

* Annals of the Four Masters.

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Irish Captain, called Shedagh Mac Namara, bordering
on O'Brien's lands and possessing those of Clan-Cullen
in Thoniond, sought to be advanced to the honor of
Baron of Clan-Cullen, with his place in Parliament,
offering, if he obtained such distinction, to hold his
territory by Knight's service ; and, for that the said
Mac Namara is a man whose ancestors have in those
parts always borne a great sway, and one that for
himself is of honest conformity, and whose lands lie
wholly on the 4 furside ■ of the Shannon, we beseech
Your Majesty to regard him, but so as not to entitle
him or his heirs to any land or dominion on this side
of the Shannon."* On the occasion of Perrot's Con-
cilation Parliament of 1585, " there went thither
Turlogh, son of Teigue, son of Conor O'Brien, and
the Lord of the western part of Clan-Cullen, namely,
John Mac Namara, i. e., John the son of Teigue, as
one of the Knights of Parliament for the County of
Clare." So say the Four Masters, whose Annals
abound with notices of this ancient Sept. Daniel
Mac Namara of Doone and John Mac Namara of Mori-
orsky were of the Supreme Council that assembled in
1646 at Kilkenny.

This Captain John had livery of his estates in the
County of Clare, out of the Court of Wards in 1637,
and having been ousted in the civil war of 1641, he
was, by a clause in the Act of Settlement, restored to
his principal seat with 2,000 acres of land ; and the
same statute, in the Declaration which it contains of

* D' Alton's County Dublin, p. 162.

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Eoyal gratitude for services during the exile, names
this Mae Namara as one who, " for reasons known to
us, in an especial manner merited our grace and
favour." He would seem to be identical with John
Mac Namara of Cruttilagh or Cratloe, who was Sheriff
of Clare in 1686-7, and one of its representatives
in the Irish Parliament of 1689, having previously ob-
tained, in October, 1685, a patent from King James
for erecting the lands of Cratillow into a manor.

In King James's New Charters, Thomas Macna-
mara was a Burgess in that to Limerick ; as were
Florence and John in another to Ennis. Florence
Macnamara was one of the Deputy Lieutenants of
the County of Clare, and he was a Captain in Lord
Clare's Dragoons, in which Laurence and Daniel
Macnamara were Quarter-Masters. Hugh Macna-
mara commanded a troop of Grenadiers in the Earl
of Tyrone's Infantry ; Miles was a Quarter-Master in
Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's ; while in Colonel Charles
O'Brien's, Donogh and Thady Macnamara were
Captains, and a second Donogh a Lieutenant. Teigue
Macnamara, of the Ayle line of this Sept, raised an
independent troop for King James's service after the
battle of the Boyne,* with which he garrisoned the
Castle of Clare, and held it until the capitulation of
Limerick ; in the Articles for which he, being included?
saved his estate and removed to the old family man-
sion at Ayle.f

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 514.
f Burke's Landed Gentry, p 813.

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Captain John rose to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in
this service. He married to his first wife the Lady
Elizabeth O'Brien, eldest daughter of Murrough, the
first Earl of Inchiquin. She died in 1688,* when it
would appear he married a second time the relict of
Richard Southwell, Esq., father of Sir Thomas South-
well, afterwards Lord Southwell, f John was outlawed,
but was subsequently adjudged within the Articles of
Limerick. Others of the name then attainted were
Florence Macnamara of Dromore, Donogh of Mohir,
Thomas of Limerick, and John of Ralshine, County of
Limerick.

At the Court of Chichester House, John Macna-
mara, styled of ' Creevagh,' claimed and was allowed
a mortgage affecting estates of Lord Clare ; as did
John, the son, heir, and executor of his father James,
the benefit of a mortgage affecting said estates, and
his claim was also allowed. Teigue Macnamara
claimed, in right of his wife, an interest in lands in
the County of Clare, the forfeiting proprietor of which
was Redmond Magrath, — but his claim was disal-
lowed ; as was another claim of his to a freehold in
Clare lands, forfeited by Lord Clare, and which
Teigue claimed, in right of his father, John Macna-
mara, to whom they had been leased, and who died in
1690.

In 1745 Lieutenant Macnamara, of the Irish Bri-

* Archdalfs Lodge, v. 6, p. 18.

t Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., 241.

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gade, was killed in Flanders.* And in two years after
died in France, John Macnamara, a distinguished
Admiral in that service ; he was, according to Mac-
Geoghegan, of the grand military order of St. Louis,
and Governor of the Port of Rochford. His nephew
was commander of the 4 Frepinne,' in which he took a
number of valuable prizes.f

LIEUTENANT JOHN GAYDON.

An Inquisition, taken post mortem, 6th July, 1613,
at Naas, finds that John Gay don, alias Gay ton, died
in 1596, seized in fee of a castle, lands, tenements,
&c. in the town of Irishtown, formerly called Bally -
spedagh, in the County of Kildare ; and also of the
Castle, &c. of Straffan, &c. in said County, and of
the lands of Hatton and Ardrosse therein ; and
that his heir is Nicholas Gaydon, now aged thirty-
eight years, and married ; who is in occupation of
said premises, which he holds in common soccage of
the heir of a certain John Fannyn, son and heir of
John Fannyn, Knight. J The outlawries of 1642
record only of this name John ' Gaydon' of Irishtown ;
it may be presumed a son of the last mentioned
Nicholas, and identical with the Lieutenant at present
under consideration. The name seems now extinct
in Ireland.

* Gent. Mag. v. 15, p. 275. f Ferrar's Limerick, p. 349.
\ Inq. in Cane. Hib.

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LIEUTENANT JAMES ST. JOHN.

This name is of record in Ireland in the fourteenth
century, and in the seventeenth was one of tenure
at Mortellstown in the County of Tipperary ; of
which place it will be remembered was Thomas St.
John, who signed the Petition of 1661, ante, page
8 ; but nothing worth relating has been discovered
of this individual or of the name, except that, at the
Court of Chichester House in 1703, a James St. John
claimed and was allowed an estate for lives in Carlo w
lands forfeited by Dudley Bagnall. A Lieutenant
St. John is said to have submitted to the Government
of King William ; and it is not unlikely that this
officer was the person, as well by the absence of his
name from the Koll of Attainders, as by the presump-
tion that he was the above claimant. His name
appears to be also now extinct in Ireland.

LIEUTENANT THOMAS LEICESTER.

This name, in various modes of spelling, is traced
in Irish records from Edward the Third. In 1357,
John 4 de Lecestere,' was nominated Attorney-General
for Ireland. In 1402, William 1 Lyster' was appoint-
ed to the office of 4 Water-Bailly ' of Ulster, with a
Clerkship of the Escheats in said County ; he had also

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

a grant of lands in the County of Dublin, for the
term of his life.

At its dissolution, the Religious House of Kil-
carmick, in O'Mulloy's Country, (the King's County)
having vested in the Crown, was granted by James
the First, soon after his accession, to Robert Ley-
cester, Gent, with sundry lands in said country. He
subsequently passed patent more extensively for Cas-
tles, Abbeys, Chiefries, and Lands in the several
Counties of Wicklow, Westmeath, Limerick, Sligo,
Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, with licences for
fairs and markets, &c. The estates in the King's
County (some of which, as Killishell, were parcel of
the estates of the O'Connors of that County, attainted)
remained in his descendants until forfeited by the
above Lieutenant Thomas. His forfeitures in that
County alone comprised two thousand three hundred
acres ; his father, John Leicester, also forfeited con-
siderable interests therein. A Funeral Entry of 1684
in the Office of Arms of Dublin describes this latter indi-
vidual as " John Leicester of Kilcormick in the King's
County, son of Robert, son of Robert, son of John,
son of John. The first mentioned John died last day
of March, and was buried 10th of April at Ballyboy
in said County. He married Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Tyrrel of Simon's Court, County Westmeath,
second son of Richard Tyrrell of Kilbride ; by whom
he had issue one son, Thomas (the above Lieutenant),
and two daughters, Mary and Joane. This Funeral
Entry is, as required, testified by Edward Tyrrel,

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brother [in law] of the deceased. Lieutenant Tho-
mas was, therefore, it would appear, the great grand-
son of Kobert, the patentee of 1604, who, from an
examination of the lineage of the Leicesters of Toft
Hall in Cheshire, was probably one of the younger
sons of Sir George (who died in 1612), by Alice,
eldest daughter of Peter Leicester of Tabley. The
Inquisition, taken on his attainder, describes him as
late of Ballyboy in the King's County, and to have
been seised of about one thousand acres in that
County, including Corraghmore, Ballycollane, Gur-
teen, Dune, Killeshill, Kilduff, and the town and
lands of the Monastery of Kilcormick, with a mill,
market, and fair to the latter appertaining.

LIEUTENANT GEORGE MAYO.

This surname does not occur again in the List,
nor does it at all appear in the Eoll of Outlawries ;
where, however, some Meaghs and Meyaghs do. The
name of 'Mayo we' is in the Chancery Eolls, as in
Kerry, in the fourteenth century. That of ' May hew'
also occurs in Irish records of about the same period ;
and, in a Roll of Amerceaments of Fines laid upon
Sheriffs, Mayors, Seneschals, &c, of record in the
Chief Remembrancer's Office, is one of Geoffrey
'Mayhoo' in 1428.

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CORNET GEORGE IIAUGHTON.

Neither does this name appear again on the List,
nor in the attainders of the period. On the 21st of
December, 1690, Thomas 4 Haghton' was appointed
to the office of Second Sergeant at Arms, and on the
28th March following had a grant of the office of
Clerk of the Crown and Peace of the County of Dub-
lin.* certain George Haughton obtained, in the
time of Charles the Second, a fiat for a grant of the
manor, town and lands of Barne, in the County of
Longford ; but died in 1682, before obtaining pos-
session, leaving George Haughton, Junior, his son
and heir, then a minor of but five years of age.
It is just possible that, in the enthusiasm of the
period, he, though only thirteen years of age at the
time of this campaign, may have been the above
Cornet George. George junior was, during his
life, involved in litigation concerning the said
manor of Barne, and died in 1732, seised of two
other manors, that of Bormount in Wexford, and
Kilthorpe in Rutlandshire, England.f

QUARTER, MASTER THOMAS LILLY.

Neither is this name again on the List, nor in the
Outlawries.

* Rolls Office.

f Appeal Cases.

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QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM SYNNOTT.

This family is descended from an ancient and
honorable stock of Norman extraction. They were
possessed of lands in Ireland from the time of the
Invasion, and in the County where it first found
footing. In 1365, John ' Synath' was one of the
influential proprietors of this County (Wexford)
directed by the Crown, according to the custom of
the time, to elect its Sheriff. Sir John Synnot, after
the Desmond war, passed out of Ireland to foreign
parts.* In 1607, William Synnatt of Ballyfernock
had a grant of various lands within the district of
O'Murrough's Country (County of Wexford), "with
certain custom sheep, called summer sheep, and cer-
tain 'akates1 upon and in O'Murrough's Country,
where the said lands lie ; with all other customs,
duties, and hereditaments to same belonging, and
which came to King Edward the Sixth by the attain-
der of Donell 0'Murrough."f This grant was subse-
quently renewed to his son Walter Synnott. In

1649, David Synnot was Governor of Wexford when
that town was besieged by Cromwell ; and in its gal-
lant though unsuccessful defence he lost his life. In

1650, Oliver Synnot came over in commission from
the Duke of Lorraine, on the occasion of his Grace's

* Manuscripts T.C.D., E 3, 15.
f Pat. Roll in Cane. Hib.

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memorable proffer of aid to the Royal cause.* This
same Oliver, it would appear, was in the following-
year Commander of the Fort of Ardkyn in the Isle of
Arran.f No other Synnott appears in this Army
List, and, from the 4 Landed Gentry1 of Sir Bernard
Burke (f. 1347), this Quarter-Master William would
seem to have been of the Ballytramon line.

In King James's Charters, Dominick Synnot was
an Alderman in that to Waterford ; Richard a Bai-
liff in that to Wexford ; and, on the Establishment of
1687-8, James Synnot was placed for a pension of £50.

The outlawries of 1691 comprise the names of
John 1 Sinnott' of Middletown, County of Wexford ;
as also of James and Richard Synnott of Wexford,
Richard and Walter ' Sinnott' of Churchtown, Ross-
beare ; Stephen ' Sinnott' of Ballynant, Pierce ' Sin-
nott' of Housewood, and John Synnott of Kilcotty,
all in the County of Wexford ; with Francis Synnott
of Waterford, and Michael Synnott of Graigue, County
of Leitrim.

QUARTER-MASTER SYLVESTER DEVENISH.

The Norman surname of 4 Le Devenys,' is of the earli-
est introduction into Ireland. In 1302, Nicholas
'Deveneys' had military summons for the Scottish
war. In 1308, William 4de Devenys' was one of the

* O'Conor's Hist Address, part 2. p. 446.
t Hardiman's Gal way, p. 319.

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Justices of the Irish Bench ; and in the same year,
John 'Le Devenys' had livery of seisin of his lands
there, as holding in capite from the Crown. In 1356,
Maurice and Nicholas Devenys were of the influential
proprietors of Kilkenny, who in that year elected J ohn
Fitz-Oliver cle la Freyne into the Shrievalty of their
County. In 1488, Eichard Devenys did homage to
Sir Eichard Edgecombe at Kinsale.* In 1509, Peter
'Devenish' was a prebendary of Saggard, in St.
Patrick's Cathedral ; and, while in that office, witnessed
the surrender of the possessions of Glendalough to the
See of Dublin. f

An old Family Pedigree, however, derives this
Quarter-master from Sir John Devenish of Hellen-
leagh in England, a descendant of whom, Edmund
Devenish, came to Ireland in 1512, and married a
daughter of Sir Poland Penthony. Their eldest son
George, the first of the family born in Ireland, built
the large mansion in the town of Athlone, (hence
known to a very recent period as Court Devenish)
where he settled ; and, marrying Cecilia, daughter of
Thomas Fitzgerald, was the lineal ancestor of the
above Sylvester, as well as of George and Thomas
Devenish, who were attainted with him in 1691, all
being described as 4 of Athlone, County Westmeath.'
From said George, likewise sprung the existing
family of Devenish of Rush-hill and Mountpleasant,
in the County of Eoscommon. Edmund, who mar-

* Harris's Hibernica, part 2, p. 36.
f D'Alton's Archbishops of Dublin.

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ried Miss Penthony, had by her a second son, James,
who was seised of premises in the County of Dublin,
in 1637, and was the ancestor of Major-General John
James Devenish, in 1728 Governor of Courtray in
the Low Countries.

It is to be observed that a Major Devenish is noted
in the Rawdon Papers (p. 355) as having been killed
in this campaign, in William's service ; while a de-
spatch of the Duke of Marlborough in 1716, from the
camp before Dundermond, mentions that a Colonel
Devenish had proffered to bring over an Irish regi-
ment to the Allies from the service of the ' Enemy,' a
proposal which was afterwards entertained.*

REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

CLAUD HAMILTON, EARL OF ABERCORN'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter- Masters.

The Colonel.

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Thomas Corbet,
Major.

Gerald Aylmer. Nicholas Bellew. John Hurlin.
John Rice. Thomas Hiffernan.

Gerald Dillon. Thomas Bourke. Charles Redmond.

* Murray's Marlborough Despatches, v. 3, p. 117.

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COLONEL CLAUD HAMILTON, EARL OF
ABERCORN.

The Illustrious House of Hamilton claims descent
from Bernard, a noble of the blood Royal of Saxony,
second in command to Rollo, the renowned Duke of
Normandy, at the close of the ninth century. Hum-
phrey, the great grandson of this nobleman, lived in the
eleventh, founded and endowed the Abbey of Preaux
in Normandy, and was there buried. His son, Roger
de Beaumont, was one of the council who encouraged
William the Conqueror to invade England ; and
Roger's son, Robert, married the grand-daughter of
Henry the First, King of France, commanded the
right wing of the Conqueror's army at the great bat-
tle of Hastings, and was created Earl of Leicester in
1103. Robert, the third Earl of Leicester, grandson
of the first, died and was buried in Greece on his
return from the Holy Land in 1190. His sister,
having been married to the Earl of Pembroke, was
mother of ' Strongbow.' The eldest son of the last
named Robert died without issue ; his second son,
Roger, was Bishop of St. Andrews ; and his third son,
William, having been born at Hambledon in Leicester-
shire, took his surname 4 de Hamilton ' from that
place, and was the more especial stock of the widely
extended families of the name. About the year
1215, having gone into Scotland to visit his sister,
who was married to the Earl of Winton, he was
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whose favour he settled there, and intermarried with
the daughter and representative of the Earl of
Strathern. His son, Sir Gilbert, married Isabella,
niece to Sir Robert Bruce, and their son particularly
distinguished himself at Bannockburn, on whose field
he was knighted. It is of family tradition that Sir
Gilbert, the younger son of this knight, having spoken
in honorable terms of Robert Bruce at the Court of
King Edward in 1325, received a taunting insult
from John de Spencer, and a rencontre was the con-
sequence, in which the latter fell. Hamilton, there-
upon, a stranger as he was, apprehensive of court
influence and resentment against him, fled for Scot-
land ; when, being closely pursued into a forest, he
and his servant changed clothes with two wood-
cutters, and, taking their saw, were cutting through
an oak tree when their pursuers came up. Perceiving
his servant's attention too much fixed upon them, he
hastily reminded him of the part he was to act, by the
word 4 through; rebuked by which presence of mind,
the servant resumed his work, the pursuers passed
unsuspectingly, and Sir Gilbert adopted the call
1 through] with the oak tree and saw, as his motto and
crest. Such were the armorials of the Earl of Aber-
corn, and the many Hamiltons that succeeded of that
stock. Soon after Sir Gilbert's arrival in Scotland, he
obtained a grant of the Barony of Cadzow in Lanark-
shire, thenceforth called Hamilton.* In 1346, Sir
David ' Hambleton ' of Cadzow, accompanied King

* See Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 5, p. 88 et seq.

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David Bruce to the battle of Durham, where he was
taken prisoner with his Koyal master ; but having
been soon after ransomed, he was one of the 1 Mag-
nates Scotia?,' who assembled at Scone to acknowledge
John, Earl of Carrick, eldest son of King Eobert the
Second, to be undoubted heir to the throne. In 1445,
Sir John Hamilton, grandson of the before mentioned
Sir David of Cadzow, was joined with the Earl of
Angus in the command of the Royal Array, on the
memorable occasion when the Earl of Douglas was
totally routed. In 1474, Sir James Hamilton, Lord
Hamilton of Cadzow, the lineal descendant of William
who first assumed the name, was married to the Prin-
cess Mary, eldest daughter of James the Second, King
of Scotland. His daughter married the Earl of
Lennox and Darnley, and was thus the ancestress
of James the Second of this campaign.

Having so far written of this noble family in Scot-
land, its introduction into Ireland in the time of
James the First, and its rapid and honorable exten-
sion over that kingdom to the time of the Revolution,
are subjects of more native interest. In 1698, Hans
Hamilton, the lineal descendant of the Lords of Cad-
zow, died minister of Dunlop in Scotland. His eldest
son, James Hamilton, was the first of the family who
settled in Ireland in his father's life-time, having been
sent thither with James Fullarton, by James the Sixth,
afterwards the First of England, to encourage his ad-
herents and secure his interest in that country. The
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obtrude the real motives of their mission, they
assumed the character and office of school-masters,
and actually presided over that Grammar-school
where Primate Usher received his rudiments, and
from which he entered Trinity College under said
James Hamilton, then a Fellow of this University.
King James, on his accession to the Crown of Eng-
land, rewarded the services of this his agent by exten-
sive grants of lands in the County of Down, and con-
ferred on him successively the honour of Knighthood
and the titles of Viscount Claneboy and Earl of Clan-
brassil, which title became extinct on the failure of
his line in his grandson Viscount Claneboy. The
Earl also acquired considerable estates in the County
of Louth, by assignment from Sir Nicholas Bagnal,
and having invited his brothers from Scotland to par-
ticipate in the advantages which his rank, property
and influence gave him in Ireland, five of them accord-
ingly came over. Of these, Archibald, the second
son of Hans, became the ancestor of the Hamiltons of
Killileagh and Killough ; Gawen, the third son, was an-
cestor of Robert Hamilton of Kildare ; John Hamilton,
the fourth son, settling in Armagh, married Sarah,
daughter of Sir Robert Brabazon, and from their
union sprang the Hamiltons of Mount Hamilton,
County of Carlow, those of Sheep Hill, County of
Dublin, and of Rock-Hamilton, County of Down.
William Hamilton, the fifth son of Hans, was ancestor
of the lines of Bangor, Tyrella, Balbriggan, and Tolly-
more ; as was Patrick Hamilton of the Hamiltons of

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Granshaw, and Mount Clithero, some of whom
returned to Scotland, while others are yet established
in the Barony of Ardes.

In 1615, James Hamilton of Cadzow acquired the
manor of Drumkea, with the Islands in the County of
Fermanagh ; which he afterwards sold to John Arch-
dall, who took out a fresh patent thereof. Eobert
Hamilton likewise then acquired considerable estates
in that County, and Sir Claud Hamilton became
seized of upwards of 3,000 acres in the County of
Cavan, as were other members of this family of differ-
ent tracts therein. In 1618, James, the second Earl
of Abercorn, eldest son of the first, was created Lord
Hamilton, Baron of Strabane ; which honor was how-
ever, on his Lordship's petition, transferred to his next
brother, the Honorable Claud Hamilton, who had
married a daughter of the first Marquis of Huntly,
and died in 1638, leaving by her Sir James, his eldest
son, Lord Strabane, who was drowned in 1655 ; when
the title devolved upon Claud, the fourth Lord Stra-
bane, and fifth Earl of Abercorn, he having been the
son and heir of George Hamilton, (the brother of
James) by a sister of Richard Fagan of Feltrim,
hereafter mentioned, a Captain in the Boyal Eegiment
of Infantry; and this Earl Claud was the Colonel of
fehe present Regiment of Horse.

Other sons of James, the first Earl of Abercorn,
besides James tlie second Earl, and Claude the third,
were Sir William Hamilton, who died b.p., and George
of Dunalong, created a Baronet of Ireland in L660, for

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his services to the Royal cause. His issue will be
alluded to hereafter. The Acts of Settlement and
Explanation, in 1662-5, contained a saving for
arrears due to this Sir G-eorge, and also an appropri-
ation of one third of the estate of Sir Nicholas
Plunkett for him. In 1673, he was commissioned by
the Earl of Essex, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
on the King's order, to recruit a Regiment of Infantry
for the service of France, which was ultimately raised
and did active duty under Turenne on the Rhine, in
that year and the ensuing.*

The Colonel at present under consideration
attended King James from France to Ireland ; on
his arrival in Dublin, was sworn of the Privy Council,
and sat in the Parliament of 1689.f He was
engaged in Lord Mount-Cashel's unsuccessful expedi-
tion against the Enniskilleners, and was wounded on
that occasion. On the 28th of April, 1688, when
James Hamilton, who afterwards succeeded to the
Peerage, had brought arms and ammunition into
Derry, this Lord Claud, says Walker, in his work on
the siege, (p. 23) " came up to our walls, making us
many proposals and offering his King's pardon, protec-
tion, and favour, if we would surrender the town; but
these fine words had no place with the Garrison."
After the defeat at the Boyne, when the Duke of Ber-
wick sought to rally about 7,000 foot at Brazeel, near
Dublin, three of the troops, sent out by King James

* O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 87.
f Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 434.

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to cover his retreat, were of Abercorn's Horse. This
colonel himself subsequently embarked for France
with James, but lost his life on the voyage. He was
attainted in 1691, the earliest act of his treason
having been assigned to the 1st of March, 1688. The
Inquisition held on his outlawry at Strabane, finds
him to have been seized of an immense tract of
townlancls in the County of Tyrone, with sundry
chief rents and tenements. On his attainder, the
estates and title of Strabane became forfeited, but the
Earldom descended to his brother Charles, who, fur-
ther obtaining a reversal of Lord Claud's outlawry,
succeeded to the restored title of Strabane, and died
in 1701 without issue, when the honours and estates
devolved upon his kinsman,

JAMES HAMILTON:

Who had been in the military service and confidence
of James the Second, but, espousing the cause of Wil-
liam, took, as before suggested, a distinguished part
at the siege of Derry against his former master. * He
arrived in that city on the 20th of March, 1688, from
England, with arms and ammunition for the citizens,
and a Commission for Colonel Lundy to be Governor;
whereupon William and Mary were proclaimed the
sovereigns in that city. In June, 1690, previous to

* Burke's Peerage, pp. 1 & 2.

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the battle of the Boyne, this James Hamilton was re-
commended to the especial notice of Sir Robert South-
well, then King William's Irish Secretary, by a letter
from Colonel Fitz-patrick, in which he said, " the
bearer hereof, Colonel James Hamilton, married the
Earl of Monmouth's sister ; he has the best estate of
all the Hamiltons in the North of Ireland, is a very
rational and well affected gentleman, and as such I
recommend him to you. If there be any occasion to
employ such men, you will find him an honest sober
man."* On the death of Colonel Lord Claud in 1701,
this latter individual succeeded to the titles, and in
1706 took his seat in the Scottish Parliament. Ire-
land however was his usual place of residence, and of
that realm he was in December, 1701, created Baron
Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane. He had
married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert
Reading, Baronet, of Dublin, by whom he had nine
sons and four daughters, and died in November,
1734.f

There were various other Hamiltons concerned at
each side in this unfortunate Civil War. On James's
side were also,

BRIGADIER-GENERAL RICHARD
HAMILTON,

Of whose policy, the Commissioners, who were sent

* Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 179.
\ Burke's Peerage, p. 2.

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over to St. Germains to complain of Tyrconnel,
expressed great dissatisfaction,* they considering it
temporising. His name appears on the establishment
of 1687-8, as one of the Brigadiers on pay of £497
10s. He was a Roman Catholic, the fifth son of the
aforesaid Sir George Hamilton of Donalong, and had
served with considerable reputation in France ; but
was banished from that country on account of his un-
pardonably aspiring addresses to the Princess de
Conti, the daughter of the French King. He was the
officer whoni Tyrconnel entrusted with the command
of 2,500 men, to make head against the rebels in
Ulster, and whose partial success against them at
Dromore, and forcing them back to Coleraine, was the
first auspicious intelligence which King James
learned on his arrival in Dublin. He forced the pass
at Clareford, " his horse swimming across the water,
because the enemy had broke the bridge :"f and had
afterwards the important confidential command of the
army besieging Deny. On the loth June, 1689, he
caused the boom to be drawn across the Foyle, to pre-
vent the entry of expected vessels for the relief of
that city. It was by his advice King James took the
precaution of stationing Sir Neill O'Xeill, with his
Dragoons, at the ford of the Boyne near Slane,J and on
the day of the battle he led a Eegiment of Infantry to
the very margin of that river, to oppose the passage
of King William's forces. In the last charge, he was

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 423. f Mem, v. 2, p. 331.
\ Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 323.

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routed, wounded and taken prisoner. On the close of
the campaign he betook himself to France, where, in
1696, at Calais, the Royal Exile, possibly under some
expectation of an invasion for the assertion of his
restoration, confirmed him Lieutenant-General of his
forces, and in a few days after appointed him Master of
the Robes.* Leslie says that throughout his service
in Ulster he zealously protected the Protestants, and
kept his soldiers under strict discipline.!

Another officer of this name and service, but not
commissioned on this Roll, though afterwards ap-
pointed the Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Mount-
Cashel's Infantry, was ^

COLONEL ANTHONY COUNT HAMILTON.

He had distinguished himself in the command of the
Regiment which his father, Sir George Hamilton of
Dunalong, had, as before mentioned, raised in 1673,
and was honored with the rank of Major-General by
the French King. In 1676, he served under the
Duke of Luxemburg in Alsace. (See of him, post,
at Lord Mount-Cashel's Infantry.) He had a brother
the more remarkable and truly gallant

GEORGE COUNT HAMILTON ;

Or whom, although not strictly within the proposed

* Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 543.
t Leslie's Answer to King.

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scope of these Illustrations, it may be said that,
having been, some years previous to this Civil War,
banished on account of his persecuted creed from the
Court of Charles the Second, he commanded an Irish
Regiment under Louis the Fourteenth, and was
engaged in the campaigns of 1673-5 under Marshal
Turenne. In the latter year, when Turenne fell by
a cannon ball, the French army was saved from utter
destruction by this gallant Irishman, as very fully and
graphically detailed in O'Conor's ' Recollections of Swit-
zerland.1 In 1676, he was serving under the Prince
de Conde ; but on the march towards Sauverne, was
killed in the neighbourhood of Zebernstieg, with a
large part of the three Regiments which he commanded,
and but for whose gallant conduct the French would,
as on the former occasion, have been entirely cut
down.

So numerous nevertheless were the Hamiltons, who
espoused the cause of King William, even before his
coming over to Ireland, that, in King James's Parlia-
ment of May, 1689, no less than forty-six of the name
were attainted or otherwise proscribed. Colonel Gus-
tavus Hamilton, it may be mentioned, particularly
distinguished himself for William at the battle of the
Boyne ; and yet more signally by wading through the
Shannon, and storming the town of Athlone, at the
head of the English Grenadiers.

George Hamilton, fifth son of the Earl of Selkirk,
likewise distinguished himself at the Boyne under the
same Monarch, as well as at Aughrim in 1691, at

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Steenkirk in 1692, and at Landen in the following
year. By reason of all which and other military
achievements, he was in 1695 advanced to the Peerage
as Earl of Orkney, and had grants of a considerable
proportion of the private estates of King James in
Ireland. In 1704, he acquitted himself heroically at
the battle of Blenheim ; in 1706, was at the siege of
Menin; in 1708, commanded the van of the army at
the passing of the Scheldt, assisted at the siege of
Tournay, was at the battle of Malplaquet, and render-
ed numerous other services, which were rewarded with
a succession of honors to the time of his death in
1736.

In 1691, Henry Hamilton of Baillieborough,
(lineal ancestor of James Hans Hamilton, Esq. of
Sheep-Hill, one of the present Members of Parliament
for the County of Dublin,) was killed on the walls of
Limerick. The outlawries of this year exhibit the
names of the above Earl of Abercorn, Darby Hamil-
ton of Athlone ; John, Richard, and Anthony Hamil-
ton of Dublin ; Robert of Hamilton's-Bawn, County
of Armagh ; and Richard and John Hamilton of
Pennyburn-Mill, County of Londonderry. In 1693,
a petition was got up on behalf of the British Protes-
tants of Ireland, setting forth their services in estab-
lishing English Government, and suggesting that, as
intentions were avowed by certain outlawed exiles, of
bringing writs of error to reverse their attainders, the
petitioners therefore prayed securities from the Legis-
lature against any such attempts. This document

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was signed by James Hamilton, M.P. for the
Borough of Tullamore, another James Hamilton, one
of the Representatives of the County of Down, and
Hans Hamilton, M.P. for Killileagh.*

At the Court of Claims in 1700, the charges which
were sought to be established against this Earl of
Abercorn's estates were, by William Hamilton, who
claimed,, and was allowed, as " grandson and heir of
William, who was son and heir of William Hamilton,"
a fee farm by descent in the Tyrone lands forfeited by
the Earl. James Hamilton, senior, claimed and was
allowed sundry other interests therein, as was also
John Hamilton ; while Lady Elizabeth, Baroness Dow-
ager of Strabane, claimed dower thereoff ; and many
creditors and sub-lessees petitioned for the benefit of
their several interests. Colonel Gustavus Hamilton
also sought and was allowed the amount of sundry
bond-debts against this estate. On the same occasion,
Anne Hamilton, widow of Sir Eobert Hamilton,
Knight, and others, as Executors of James Hamilton
deceased, claimed and were allowed a judgment debt
charged on the estates of Valentine Russell attainted.

COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON

Is particularly mentioned hereafter, as the Colonel of
an Infantry Regiment.

* Rawdon Papers, pp. 372-3.

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In relation to the Balbriggan Haniiltons, (sprung
from William, the fifth son, as before mentioned, of
the Eeverend Hans Hamilton, the lineal descendant
of the Lords of Cadzow,) Alexander, who from the
year 1739 to 1760 represented the Borough of Kil-
lileagh in the Irish Parliament, became the purchaser
of Balbriggan, which passed on his decease to his
son, the Honorable George Hamilton, member of Par-
liament for Belfast, afterwards a Baron of the Ex-
chequer, and yet more distinguished for public spirit
in promoting the trade and welfare of his country.
He died at Oswestry in 1793, and was buried in the
family vault at Balrothery. Alexander had another
son, Hugh, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Dean
of Armagh, next advanced to the See of Clonfert, and
afterwards to that of Ossory. On the Baron's death,
the Balbriggan property descended to his son, the
Reverend George Hamilton, and from him to his son,
George Alexander Hamilton, heretofore a member of
Parliament for the City of Dublin, and now for its
University. He is the lineal descendant in the
twenty-fifth degree from Bernard, the nobleman of
Saxony noticed as the founder of the Family of
Hamilton ; and this long line of ancestry could not be
more proudly represented in honour, integrity, and
honesty of purpose than by George Alexander Hamil-
ton.

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MAJOR THOMAS CORBET.

This surname is traced on Irish record from the time
of Edward the Third, in which reign John ' Corbett '
was 'Constable' of the Castle of Limerick. It is not,
however, associated with the character of achieve-
ment that marks the chief families of this 4 List.' In
1655, Miles Corbet, one of the Regicides, of whom a
full account is given in 4 The History of the County
of Dublin] (p. 194) was appointed Chief Baron of
the Irish Exchequer, and was subsequently one of the
Commissioners of the Great Seal of Chancery. The
above Major Thomas, having risen in the campaign,
appears to have been the ' Lieutenant-Colonel Cor-
bet,' who, according to Story, " came to De Ginkle,
and proposed the bringing over of Tyrconnel's and
Galmoy's Regiments of Horse, and out of them to
make one good regiment to serve their Majesties in
Flanders," provided he should have the command.

Another Corbet was appointed Major of

Colonel Dudley B agnail's Infantry, as noted post.

CAPTAIN GERALD AYLMER.

This family, (which deduces its descent from Saxon
times, from Ailmer Earl of Cornwall, who lived in the
reign of King Ethelred,) settled in the County of
Kildare at the close of the thirteenth century. In

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1525, Sir Gerald Aylmer was advanced to the Chief
Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and in 1535, was
made Chief Baron ; in which latter year Eichard
Aylmer was appointed Chief Sergeant of the County
of Kildare. He was then residing at Lyons in that
County, which became thenceforth, as in truth it had
long previously been, the ancestral seat of the elder
stock. From him in the direct line descended George
Aylmer, hereafter alluded to as a Captain in Colonel
Eoger Mac Elligott's Infantry. Gerald, the third son
of Eichard, settled at Donadea, was knighted in 1605,
became a Baronet in 1621, and his line is still re-
presented in Sir Gerald George Aylmer of Donadea
Castle, Premier Baronet ; while another, that of Bal-
rath or Dollardstown, was founded by the Eight
Honourable Gerald Aylmer, Knight, second son of
Bartholomew Aylmer of Lyons. He was appointed
one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland
in 1532; promoted to the Exchequer in 1534; in
1535, further elevated to the Chief Justiceship of the
Common Pleas ; in which latter year, on the occasion
of the Battle of Bellahoa, where the forces of the Pale
defeated O'Neill, this Chief Justice was, with Talbot
of Malahide and the Mayors of Dublin and Drogheda,
respectively knighted on the field ; and, as Cox
observes, "well they merited the honor for their good
service in obtaining so great a victory, which broke
the power of the North and quieted the borders for
some years."* In 1553, he was appointed Lord Chief

* DAlton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 193.

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Justice of the Queen's Bench, His descendant, Mat-
thew Aylmer, a distinguished naval officer, was in
1692 appointed Rear Admiral of the Eecl Squadron,
and sent to the Mediterranean, where he acquired
great reputation by his management in arranging
treaties with the various states of Northern Africa.
He for some time represented Dover in Parliament,
and was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1718, by
the title of Lord Aylmer, Baron of Balrath, a dignity
which still exists. Of his line was the above Captain
G-erald.

On the dissolution of Monasteries, Nicholas Aylmer
acquired parcels of the possessions of the respective
religious houses of Monasterevan and Naas, County of
Kilclare, and of the Commandery of Knights Hospital-
lers of Killure, County of Waterford. Garret Aylmer
was one of the gentry who attended in 1641 the
meeting on Crofty Hill.

The Act of Settlement (1662) contained a saving
for Sir Andrew Aylmer of Donadea of his estate, while
the clause of Royal Thanks therein, for " services
beyond the seas," includes the name of Captain Gar-
ret Aylmer.

In Colonel Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry, George
Aylmer was, as before suggested, a Captain ; while

Peter Aylmer was a Lieutenant. At the siege of

Derry in 1689, Sir Garret Aylmer was taken prisoner,
nor was he released on exchange until May, 1691.*
The Aylmers attainted in the last year were

* Story's Impartial Histor}-, part 2, p. 76.

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Gerald or Garret Aylmer of Balrath, George Ayl-
mer of Caronstown, Christopher and Eichard of Senes-
chalstown, Garret of Lyons, George of Dublin, Gar-
ret of Pennyburn-mill, County of Deny, Knight, and
Lady Ellen Aylmer of Sallins. Sir Gerald Aylmer
was held entitled to the benefit of the Articles of
Limerick, as were also Peter Aylmer and Colonel

George (of whom post). In 1705, a 'Mr. Aylmer,'

having memorialled for leave to return to Ireland,
his petition was referred to Sir Eichard Cox, who at
the close of September in that year writes, " I don't
see any great difficulty in it ; he must by Act of Par-
liament pay 40 shillings per annum to a Free
School, and his licence costs about 30s. to the several
officers ; and it cannot be of any consequence, that a
few silly fellows may be suffered to eat potatoes and
spend their money in their native country." A few
days after he writes, " I won't burn my fingers about
Aylmer ; if there be any difficulty in it, let it alone."

At the Battle of Lauffield, in 1747, 'Elmer,' a
Lieutenant in Clare's Eegiment, was wounded.

CAPTAIN JOHN EICE.

This name is recognised in Ireland since the thirteenth
century. In 1294, John Eice was Lord Treasurer of
this Kingdom. In the fifteenth, the name appears
amongst the Corporate Officials of Limerick, of which
town, Walter Eice was Mayor in 1520. In the reign

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of Elizabeth, Stephen Rice came over as an under-
taker, and settled at Dingle in Kerry, which County
he represented in the Parliaments of King James the
First. He married Ellen Trant, and died in 1622, as
commemorated by an old gravestone in the churchyard
of Dingle, whereon it is stated that his age at the
time of his decease was 80 years, and that his 4 loyal
wife,' Ellena Trant, who died five years before him,
lies there also. — His eldest son and heir, James Rice,
stiled of Ballinruddell, first married Eleanor, daughter
of Robert White of Limerick, and secondly, Phillis
Fanning of Limerick, by which last wife he left issue
eight sons and three daughters. His eldest son, James,
who succeeded to the family estate, was attainted in

1642, and his confiscation was granted to

Mullins ; while James's son and heir, Edward Rice,
(who was one of the Confederate Catholics at Kilken-
ny in 1646), marrying Alice, daughter of Sir William
Sheircliffe, one of Cromwell's officers, acquired through
her the estate of Castle-Gregory, theretofore forfeited
by one of the Husseys. Stephen Rice, the fifth son of
said James, by Phillis Fanning, was in 1685 ap-
pointed a Privy Councillor, and in 1686 a Baron of
the Irish Exchequer, though 4 a papist,' his taking
the oath of supremacy having been dispensed with.*
In the following year he was made Chief Baron, and
knighted, was of Tyrconnel's suite in the interview
with King James at Chester, and was the chief agent
in representing to His Majesty such an aspect of Irish

* Clarendon's State Letters, v. 2, p. 420.

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feeling as he thought he was justified in offering.
On Tyrconnel's departure for France, Sir Stephen
Eice was left by him, joined in commission with Sir
Richard Nagle, for the government of Ireland ; and it
is said that the unexecuted patents for making him,
Sir Patrick Trant, and Robert Grace, Peers of Ire-
land, were found at Dublin Castle on King William's
arrival there.* Sir Stephen was attainted in 1691,
but adjudged within the articles of Limerick. His
exertions, in opposing the passing of the unfortunate
Bill " to prevent the farther growth of Popery," are
alluded to ante, at Lord Galmoy, p. 104. After the
Revolution he remained in Ireland in possession of a
large property, died in 1714, and was buried in St.
James's churchyard, Dublin, with many of his fellow
labourers in the Stuart cause, and more especially
beside Sir Toby Butler. By his will, he left his
estates chiefly to his eldest son, Edward Rice ; but,
as Sir Stephen died ' a Papist,' these estates would
have passed in gavel had not Edward conformed,
which he did, and died himself in 1720,f having
erected a costly monument over his father's grave.
The other sons of Sir Stephen, by his wife Mary
Fitzgerald, were James and Thomas. J His lady
survived him, and was executrix of his will.

In King James's new Charters, Francis Rice, mer-
chant, was a Burgess in that to Dublin ; while in that

* Memoirs of the Grace Family, p. 42.

f Howard's Popery Cases, p. 71, &c.

% Arclidall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 2, p. 54.

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to Limerick, John Rice Fitz- William, John Eice Fitz-
Edward, and the above Sir Stephen Rice were Bur-
gesses, the latter being also named an Alderman in
the Charter to Waterford. Peter Rice was a Burgess
in that to Ennis, as was Robert in that to Kinsale.

In the Parliament of 1689, Edward was one of

the Representatives of the Borough of Askeaton, as
was Edward Fitz-James Rice, of Ballinleggin, County
of Limerick, (who had been previously Sheriff of
Limerick) one of those for the Borough of Dingle-i-
conch.

Of the few contemporaneous documents that have
been sent in to aid those Illustrations, one concerns
the above Captain. It is an order from the Colonel
of this Regiment to Alderman John Leonard of Lim-
erick, directing him to pay to this Captain John Rice
the sum of £175 ; "being the proportion that comes
to him for the 4 mounting' our two troops, he 1 given'
you his receipt for it." The order is dated 9th of
March, 1689, three days before the King landed at
Kinsale, and the receipt is indorsed 14th, two days
after that event. Another John Rice was a Captain
in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's Infantry, and either of
these Johns appears identical with the Colonel John
Rice, who, after the surrender of Limerick, brought in
to King William a Regiment of Horse, on the faith
of being received into the establishment on English
pay.

The Rices attainted in 1691 were Edward Rice of
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County of Limerick, John Rice of Clonee, County of
Carlow, John Rice of Limerick, merchant, and David
of Dingle, County of Kerry ; while Nicholas and Tho-
mas Rice were adjudged within the Articles of Lime-
rick. Edward Rice forfeited a fishing weir and some

lands and tenements in Kerry, with very large estates
in Limerick ; portions charged upon which were
claimed by his only, daughter Elizabeth, wife of
Thomas Arthur, and by others. Claims were also
made at Chichester House by Thomas Rice for a
leasehold mortgage on Kerry lands, forfeited by Ni-
cholas Skiddy ; the deed creating the incumbrance
was witnessed by Dominick Rice, Thomas Rice, &c.
and the claim was allowed. Thomas Rice and Mary
his wife claimed and were allowed a portion, charged
by the will of her father James Rice on Kerry lands
forfeited by Edward Rice. John Rice Fitz- William
claimed and was allowed a freehold interest in lands
in the County of Limerick, forfeited by Nicholas
Browne and Helen his wife. Piers Arthur and Mary
his wife, late widow of Edward Rice Fitz-James,
claimed her jointure off the lands of Bally neety, in
the County of Kerry, forfeited by said Edward.

James Rice, before mentioned as the eldest son of
Sir Stephen by his second wife, married Susanna,
daughter of Sir Henry O'Brien, by whom he had
issue two sons, Stephen and Francis. Stephen, the
eldest son, succeeded at Mount-Rice, and died in
1755, leaving issue Stephen, who married the daugh-

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ter of Joshua Meredith.* From Thomas, the second
son of Sir Stephen, it is alleged that Lord Monteagle
is descended.

In 1790, the Eight Honorable James Louis Count
Eice, of the Holy Eoman Empire, sold the lands of
Dingle to George Nagle,

COENET THOMAS HIFFEENAN.

The O'Heffernans possessed a territory about Corofin
in the County of Clare, called from them Muintir-
Ifernain, from which stock a branch was transplanted
to the Barony of Owny and Arra, County of Tippe-
rary. " Their war-cry," says Ware,f " was ' Ceart-
na-suas-aboe,' i. e. 'the cause of right from above,'
alluding perhaps to their crest, which was an armed
hand, couped at the wrist and erect, holding a broken
sword, all proper, signifying, as it would seem, that
there was no justice to be expected from the sword,
but from the protection of Heaven." Mr. Hardiman,
in his Irish Minstrelsy, has preserved a poem written
about a century since, much in the spirit of that
war-cry as Ware interprets it, and by an O'Heffernan,
William ' dall,' the blind. The poem is entitled
' Cliona of the Eock,' and, while the editor says this
William " composed many other poetical pieces which
are deservedly popular," he adds, " if he had left no

* Arclidall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 3, p. 205.
t Antiquities, p. 163.

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other than ' Cliona,' it would be sufficient to rescue
his name from oblivion."*

The Four Masters record the death of Madadain
O'Heffernan, Chief of Clan-Cruain, in 1047, and an
engagement, in 1150, between Turlough O'Brien on
the one part, and the O'Carrols and O'Rourkes on
the other, wherein many of the latter party and the
son of C'lfernan' were slain. They also make men-
tion of the Clan-Hiffernan at 1170. In 1543, iEneas
O'Hiffernan, who had been an Hospitaller and Pre-
ceptor of Any, in the County of Limerick, was pre-
sented to the See of Emly on the nomination of King
Henry the Eighth. f

CORNET CHARLES REDMOND.

The origin and lineage of this family are so largely
given in Sir Bernard Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' that
reference to that work will best satisfy inquiry. On
Ortelius's map, the Sept is located in the Barony of
Forth, County of Wexford. This Cornet Charles
was a Burgess in King James's Charter to Enniscor-
thy. He was attainted in 1691 by the description
of Charles Redmond of the City of Dublin, Gent. ; as
were Alexander and Richard Redmond as of Dun-
ganstown, and John Redmond of Askenmuller, in the
County of Wexford. In the Southwell Collection of

* Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy, v, 2, pp. 25 & 125.
t Ware's Bishops, p. 499.

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State Manuscripts were " papers said to have been
found about prisoners taken by Colonel Wolseley,
discovering the design of the Papists' meeting at
Mullmgar, and among them letters to Captain Red-
mond, whom Wolseley hanged"*

After the Revolution, some members of the family
are traceable in the French and Spanish services.

REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

HENRY LUTTRELL'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter- Masters.

The Colonel.
Sir James Moclare,
Lieut.-Col.

Major.
John Connor.
Harvey Morris.
Redmond Morris.
Lord Dunsany.
Walter Lawless.
John Oxburgh.

Bryan Kelly.

Gerard Evers.
James Lawless.
Thady Connor.

Thady Connor.
Edmund Power.

Ralph Evers.
Joseph Cripps.

John Ash.
William Fanning.

Thomas Carew.
David Fanning.

COLONEL HENRY LUTTRELL.

The estate of Luttrelstown, beautifully situated in
the vale of the Liffey, was, after the English Invasion,

* Thorpes Catal. of Southwell MSS. p. 182.

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granted by King John to Sir Geoffrey Luttrell.*
From him it took that name, and for centuries was
inherited by his descendants. In 1236, Eobert Lut-
trell, then Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, was
sworn Lord Chancellor of Ireland, In 1534, Sir
Thomas Luttrell, styled of Luttrelstown, was ap-
pointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and to
the exertions and care of this wise Judge, posterity
has been indebted for the preservation of the public
records and rolls of Chancery, which he found piled
in a ruinous tower of Dublin Castle, at a considerable
distance from St. Patrick's, where the Courts were
then kept. By an order of Council he effected their
removal to the Library of that Cathedral, where the
Clerk of the Hanaper was ordered " to provide
presses, chests, doors, locks, and all other necessaries,
as well in said Library as in the better portion of the
Tower, for their safe custody. f" In 1613, Thomas
Luttrell was one of the Representatives of the County
of Dublin in Parliament. Those of the name at-
tainted in 1642 were Robert Luttrell of Girstown,
and Oliver Luttrell of Tankardstown, County of
Meath.

The above Colonel Henry Luttrell was ancestor of
the Lords Carhampton, and younger brother of
Simon, hereafter mentioned. In King James's Parlia-
ment of Dublin he was one of the Representatives of
the County of Carlow. Graham, in his Derriana,

* D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 569.
f D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 190.

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(p. 29), ranks him as Colonel of the Sixth Regiment
of Horse, as does the article in Somers' State Tracts
(v. xi., p. 398) ; but the variance arises from Colonel
Hugh Sutherland's Horse being there placed between
Sarsfield's and Abercorn's, not as here ; the number
of the Horse Kegiments is the same. A Spottiswode
Luttrell is, on a different list, recorded to have com-
manded, after the battle of the Boyne, an Indepen-
dent Troop.* Previous to that battle, when King
James had fallen back upon Ardee, he despatched
Sarsfield with this Henry Luttrell's Horse, Sir Neill
O'Neill's Dragoons, and Charles Moore's and O'Gara's
Infantry, to retard the advance of King William.
This Regiment was afterwards sent to relieve Sars-
field in Connaught, against whom his enemy was
advancing from Ulster. Colonel Henry Luttrell's
conduct on this occasion is much commended, and,
mainly by his exertions, Sarsfield was enabled to take
possession of Sligo, "the very key of Connaught on
that side." When the ' Young Ireland' party of that
day, in jealousy of Tyrconnel's policy, despatched the
deputation to St. Germains, Henry Luttrel was one
of those on the mission chiefly entrusted with their
complaints, as before-mentioned at ' Tyrconnel,' ante,
p. 54. He, in truth, " and the native Irish used all
exertions to undermine the power of Tyrconnel, and
denounce his adherents to public scorn." It was he,
they said, that fled to Gal way on the approach of
William to Limerick, and during that first siege sup-

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 514.

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plied only beans and oats to the garrison, while
wheat was abundant in the Commissariat. He was,
says O'Conor, represented as a coward, and was, in
fact, believed to be such by the war party. It was
with the hope of refuting these too popular opinions,
that Tyrconnel passed over to St. Germains, there to
urge his defence before James ; judiciously giving
out that he had that Monarch's orders to repair to
France, to give an account of affairs in Ireland.*
The result has been before alluded to.

The defeat at Aughrim, says Burke ,f was popularly
attributed to Henry Luttrell's defection ; in corrobo-
ration of which, the Williamite Diary of the last siege
of Limerick, preserved in the ' Harleian Collections,'
(Vol. vii., p. 481), says, at the 18th August, 1691,
" We had an account this day that Henry Luttrell
had been lately seized at Limerick, by order of the
French Lieutenant-General, D'Usson, for having made
some proposals for a surrender of the place ; and that
he was sentenced by a Court Martial to be shot ;
upon which our General sent them word by a trum-
pet, that if they would put any man to death for
having a mind to come over to us, he would revenge
it on the Irish." He was in truth on the clearest
evidence found guilty by Court Martial, and sen-
tenced to remain in prison until King James's plea-
sure could be known ; but, on the intermediate
reduction of Limerick, having been released, he was

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 122.
| Peerage, p. 1120.

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193

mainly instrumental in enlisting the Irish over to the
English interest.* Whereupon he was put upon the
new Establishment for a yearly pension of £500 ;
yet was he, together with a Thomas Luttrell, both
described of Luttrellstown, County of Dublin, out-
lawed in 1691; as were Eobert Luttrell of Simons-
town, County of Kildare, and William Luttrell of
Dublin, Junior. Simon Luttrell and his wife were
likewise attainted ; but Colonel Henry Luttrell, hav-
ing obtained a custodiam grant to him of his brother's
lands, had in 1694 a patent of exemption from the
rent, except the quit rents which were payable thereout
under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. A
letter of his to the Lord Lieutenant in 1699 was in
the Southwell Collection, written in reference to his
sister-in-law, Colonel Simon's lady, who had returned
into Ireland " by an old pass of Lord Eomney ;" and
he therein begs that he may have permission "to
make use -of the outlawry against her, in case she
should give me trouble by an attorney. She is a
very intriguing woman, and it was thought, when
she went for France, she went on a very intriguing
message. I am sure I heard my Lord repent might-
ily the giving her a pass ; and I need not tell your
Lordship that there will be nothing left undone by
the Jacobites here to perplex me in this affair. "f In
1702, he was appointed a Major-General in the Dutch
army, with a Regiment, and nominated to command

* O'Conor's Military Mem., p. 188.

t Thorpe's Catal. of Southwell MSB., p. 104.

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on a military enterprise of importance ; but, on the
death of King William, he retired to his country
seat at Luttrelstown, where he thenceforth chiefly
resided* until, in October, 1717, he was shot in his
sedan chair, while passing through the streets of
Dublin. He left two sons ; Richard, who died
abroad, and Simon, who succeeded his brother in
Luttrelstown, and was created Earl of Carhampton
in 1785. His only son, John, died in 1829, without
issue, when the title became extinct. O'Callaghan,
in reference to these descendants of Colonel Henry
Luttrel, says, " He was a bad man, the father of a
bad man, and the grandfather of a bad. man. "f Of
Henry himself O'Conor writes, " He was possessed of
great talents, and was one of the best officers in the
Irish army ; but recklessly bent on pushing himself
forward by the popularity of Sarsfield, and by raising
him to the chief command. He had served in
France with distinction ; but was so eager of perso-
nal advancement, that he would shrink as little from
infamy as from danger, to promote his fortunes."}

* Burke's Peerage, p. 1120.
t Excidium Macarice, p. 397.

J O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 121 ; and more fully
O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 196, &c.

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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR JAMES
MOCLAKE.

He was outlawed in 1691, being described as "of the
City of Dublin, Knight." The family, which was
then and previously chiefly located in the County of
Tipperary, seems to have been connected with the
Luttrells, Edward Moclare being also in commission
as Major in Colonel Symon Luttrell's Regiment of

Dragoons. In Colonel Dudley BagnaH's Infantry,

John Moclare was a Captain and James Moclare an
Ensign.

CAPTAINS HARVEY AND REDMOND MORRIS.

This name was introduced to Ireland in the person
of Harvey de Monte Maurisco, who accompanied the
Earl of Pembroke (Strongbow) thither, and was by
him appointed Seneschal over the vast territory he
had acquired on his marriage with Eva, the heiress
of Dermot Mc Murrough. This Harvey was the early
founder of the noble Cistercian Religious House of
Dunbrody, which he filled with monks from Bildewas
in Shropshire ; and in the monastery of the Holy
Trinity at Canterbury he closed his days. In 1335,
John Morice, Knight, was despatched to England by
the Irish Council on urgent business, and had a
Treasury order, as well for money expended on his
journey thither, as for services rendered by liiin in

o 2

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Munster. In the following year, being Justiciary of
Ireland, he summoned a Parliament at Dublin, but,
although he was the Representative of the King, he
had not the confidence and did not command the co-
operation of the country. It was on this occasion
that the Earl of Desmond proved the extraordinary
influence he possessed over all classes of the Kingdom :
feeling indignant at Sir John Morice's proceedings in
relation to himself, he invited the Nobles and Prelates
to meet him at Kilkenny ; and there, while the
Justiciary was unable to procure a sufficient atten-
dance in Dublin, the Earl saw assembled at his in-
vitation the Prelates, Earls, Barons, and Commons of
Ireland, who joined him in a remarkable Remonstrance
to the King against the proceedings of Sir John and
his Irish ministry.*

In 1447, D. Redmond Morris, a native of Ireland,
ecclesiastically styled Cardinal de Castres, died at
Rome. It is said that, in his honor and to perpetuate
his Christian name in that province of the country
from which he was descended, the Morris families of
Castle-morres, Latragh, Knockagh and Rathlin, in the
Counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, have constantly
preserved the ' Redmond ' in their lines.

The Act of Settlement contained a saving of the
rights of John ' Morish ' as a Trustee in Wexford
lands, while the declaration of Royal gratitude there-
in, for services beyond the seas, includes the name of
Captain Neal Morris. A ' Mr. Morris ' was on the

* Red Book of the Exch. in Ch. Rememb. Off.

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197

pension list of 1685, for £500 per annum.* In
1687, Edmund Morris was sheriff of the Queen's
County, which was represented in the Parliament of
Dublin by Edward Morris, while the above Harvey
Morris was one of the members for the borough of
Knocktopher, County of Kilkenny. Captain ' Red-
mond ' Morris rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in this Regiment, as appears by the warrant for his
pardon, dated 28th June, 1701, wherein it is recited
that he " had served in the Irish army as Lieutenant-
Colonel in Colonel Henry Luttrell's Horse ; that, on
the surrender of Limerick, he came over to our ser-
vice in said regiment, until it was broke ; that being
afterwards reduced to a low condition, he was neces-
sitated, contrary to his own inclination, to go into
France and enter into the French King's service, in
order to a subsistence for himself and his family ;
that, being desirous to return into Ireland, which was
his native country, he humbly prayed for a licence
to enable him so to do, which was allowed ; but being
advised that he cannot live there with security, with-
out a free pardon, he prayed for this also," and it was
thereby accordingly granted.f In 1703, a private
Act was passed to prevent the disinherison of Kedmond
Morris, as was in two years after a further Act, to
enable John Morris, an infant, son and heir of Red-
mond Morris, Esq. deceased, " to make a jointure on
any woman he shall marry, and for relief of the

* Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 658.
t Harris's MSS. vol. 10, p. 308.

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younger children of said Redmond, and for amending
and explaining some clauses in the first Act." This
legislation originated in a petition of Lieutenant-
Colonel Redmond Morris, of 30th September, 1703,
in which he set forth that he was the eldest son of Sir
John Morres of Knockagh, County of Tipperary,
Baronet, a Roman Catholic ; who, by reason of the
Petitioner being a Protestant, threatened to disinherit
him, and he therefore prayed relief from the legisla-
ture to prevent his being so disinherited, and for a
maintenance for himself during his father's life.*

Captain Harvey Morris was a younger son of Sir
Redmond of Knockagh. He had previously pur-
chased the Castle and site of Derrylough in the
County of Kilkenny, near Knocktopher, which had
been forfeited by a member of the Comerford family,
and granted by Cromwell to one Matthew Westmore-
land, a Lieutenant in his army. The grandson of
this Harvey Morris was created Viscount Mount-
morris of Castle-morris. Edmund Morris was also

an officer in this service, but not on the present List.
He was killed at the battle of Aughrim, and his estate
was granted in 1696 by King William for services to
Richard Fitzpatrick, who was in 1715 elevated to the
Peerage by the title of Baron Gowran of Gowran, and
took his seat in Parliament in the November following.
The estate of this Edmund Morris was situated at
Grantstown in the Queen's County, off which dower
was claimed by Anne Morris as his widow, and por-

* Irish Commons Journal, v. 3, p. 24.

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tions by Mary and Anne, his daughters, but their
petitions were dismist ; while another part of his estate
was sold by the Commissioners in 1703 to Amyas

Bush of Kilfane. Amongst those outlawed at this

time was also Edward Morris, styled of Maryborough,
in the same County.

CAPTAIN LORD DUNSANY (PLUNKETT.)

This name, of Danish origin, was, after centuries from
the time of its first establishment in Ireland, ennobled
in the person of the Earl of Fingal, from whom
branched the Barons of Dunsany and Earls of Louth.
Richard Plunkett had summons to Parliament by
writ in 1374, was afterwards Chief Justice of the
King's Bench, and in 1388 was appointed Lord Chan-
cellor. Few names have held higher place in the
judicial preferments than this, even to the illustrious
Chancellor, who died but a few years since. In 1461,
Thomas Plunkett was appointed Chief Justice of the
King's Bench ; Alexander Plunkett, Lord Chancellor
in 1492 ; and in 1559, John Plunkett of Dunsoghly,
Knight, was Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.

The Act of attainder of the Earl of Tyrone in 1612
included in its penalties Christopher Plunkett, late
of Dungannon. At the Assembly of 1641, on Crofty
Hill, Lords Louth and Dunsany were present. The
Attainders of the following year included of this
name, the Earl of Fingal, James and George Plun-

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kett of Killeen, Michael Plunkett of Feltown, Nicholas
of Killallon and Balrath, Robert of Athboy, merchant ;
Christopher of Girly, Thomas of Clonecatt, Alexander
of Jackstown, Patrick and Henry of Grange, Richard
of Dunshaughlin, John of Castlearron, Robert of
Rathmore, and Henry of Iskeroon, all in the Connty
of Meath ; John Plunkett of Durre, clerk ; 'Garrald'
Plunkett of Gardoge, County of Kildare, and Robert
Plunkett of the Grange of Portmarnock, County of
Dublin. Amongst the Confederate Catholics who as-
sembled at Kilkenny in 1646, Christopher Plunkett,
Earl of Fingal, and Oliver Plunkett, Baron of Louth,
were of the Peers ; while in the Commons sat Nicho-
las Plunkett of Balrath. Cromwell's Act of 1652, "for
settling Ireland," excepted from pardon for life and
estate the aforesaid Lords Fingal and Dunsany, and
Nicholas Plunkett. The Act of Settlement, in the
re-acting clause, declaratory of Royal gratitude,
includes the names of both these Lords, while it
restored Lord Dunsany to his estates ; Sir Walter
Plunkett to his ; Sir Nicholas Plunkett to two thirds
of his ; it provided that Mabel, Countess Dowager of
Fingal, should have lands set out to her to the yearly
value of her jointure, and the civil establishment was
afterwards charged with a pension of £100 per annum
for the Lord Dunsany.

In 1662, (2nd Dec.) died William Plunkett of
Portmarnock, 1 son of Luke, anciently of Dublin,' and
was buried at St. Audoen's in Dublin. He had mar-
ried Anne, daughter of Sir Theodore Duff of that city,

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and had issue by her a son, Luke, living at that
time.* In 1681, Oliver Plunkett, then Eoman
Catholic Primate of Ireland, was hanged at Tyburn,
denying to the last various charges of treason that
had been alleged against him.f Besides the above
Captain Lord Dunsany, there appear upon this List,
in Colonel Sarsfield's Horse, James Plunkett a
Quarter-Master; in Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Oliver
Plunkett a Captain; in the King's own Infantry,
Walter Plunkett a Lieutenant, and John Plunkett an
Ensign ; in Fitz-Jaines's, Garrett Plunkett a Lieu-
tenant ; in Lord Louth's, Henry Plunkett was a
Lieutenant, as was George Plunkett in Sir Walter
Creagh's, and Walter in Colonel John Hamilton's.
The two latter having been promoted to Captain-
cies, one of them may be identical, with the Captain
Plunkett related in contemporaneous reports as having
been killed at the siege of Deny, and the other
with a second Captain there wounded. Lord Louth
was himself at the siege. A Captain Plunkett is also
noted as of Lord Gormanstown's Regiment at the
siege of Limerick.J

The Earl of Fingal, and Lords Dunsany and
Louth, sat in the Parliament of Dublin, and were
accordingly attainted in 1691, as were Christopher
Plunkett of Lagore and Killeen, Richard Plunkett
of Rathregan, Gerald of Curraghstown, Thomas of

* Funeral Entry in Berm. Tur. f Rawdon Papers, p. 244
X O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 374.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Carrick, William and Francis of Tullaghrnoge, Oliver
of Onganstown and Oldcastle, Nicholas of Killeen,
Edward of G-ibbonstown, Angel Plunkett of Rathmore,
Thomas of Dirpatrick and Newcastle, Alexander of
Pickelstown, Edward of Girly, John and Richard of
Croskeele, Patrick of Leytrim and Tankardrath,
Thomas of Tallonstown, and Peter of Knockveagh,
all in the County of Meath, Edward Plunkett of
Kilrush, County of Westmeath ; George and William
Plunkett of Portmarnock, County of Dublin (the
latter had been personally engaged at the battle of
the Boyne) ; Matthew Plunkett of the City of Dublin,
Oliver Plunkett, son of Matthew Lord Baron Louth,
Thomas Plunkett, second son of said Lord, Patrick
Plunkett of Castlelumney, Simon and Richard of
Priorstown, Randall of Greenhill, Thomas of Ard-
keenagh, and Patrick and John of Castleplunkett,

County of Roscommon. The Earl of Fingal was

attainted erroneously by the name of Lucas, his real
Christian name being Peter, and the outlawry was
consequently reversed in 1697. The Lord Dunsany
was included in the Articles of Limerick, whereby
his estates were also protected for him ; " neglecting,
however, the forms necessary to re-establish himself
in the peerage," neither his Lordship nor his im-
mediate descendants had a seat in the House of
Lords.*

At the Court of Claims, Margaret Plunkett claimed
a child's portion off the County of Roscommon lands

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 342.

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203

of Patrick Plunkett of Castleplunket, but her
petition was dismist for non-prosecution. Thomas
Plunkett, and Catherine his wife, claimed an estate
for life to Thomas, and a jointure to Catherine on the
lands of Portmarnock and Carrickhill, forfeited by
the afore said William, son and heir of Luke Plunkett ;
their claims were also dismist as being already before
Parliament ; while George Plunkett, and Johanna
his wife, who had been the widow of said Luke,
claimed and were allowed the benefit of her jointure
thereoff.*

At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Watt Plunkett
of Clare's Brigade was wounded.f

CAPTAIN WALTER LAWLESS.

So early as the year 1285, Thomas 'Laghles' ap-
pears on Irish record as Constable of Connaught. In
1312, Richard Lawless was Mayor of Dublin, and in
1318, Hugh Lawless and others, his adherents, were
commissioned to parley with the Irishry of the south-
eastern parts of the Pale, the O'Tooles, O'Byrnes,
and MacMurroughs.J In 1354, Stephen 'Lawless'
succeeded to the See of Limerick; and in 1431,
another Stephen Lawless was the mitred Abbot of the

* D1 Alton's County of Dublin, p. 179.

t Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377.

\ Rot. Pat,, 13 Edw. II. in Cane. Hib.

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splendid religious House of the Blessed Virgin at
Dublin.

In 1550, died Walter Lawless, a burgess of Kil-
kenny, and then the holder of Talbot's-Inch, in that
County, under the See of Ossory. His son and heir
was Eichard, whose heir was, acccording to family
respect, another Walter. This last was found to have
been, during his life-time, seized of the manor of Cal-
lan, with certain ,chief rents and customs, "a certain
yearly custom of 'plows,' viz., one plow for one day
every season within the town of Callan ; the custom
of 'ryping' hooks every harvest yearly upon the bur-
gesses and inhabitants of said town, (excepting the
chief brethren or 'Cunsell' of Callan,) a custom of
ale, &c, out of every ale 'brued' to be sold in the
town aforesaid, &c." He also claimed the Castles of
Callan, Killmacoliver, Tullaghmayne, and Ballydon-
nell, all in said County, and was seized of premises in
Gowran, under the Earl of Ormoncl, with the afore-
said lands under the See of Ossory. This Walter died
in 1627, leaving Richard Lawless his son and heir,
then of full age but unmarried. He however soon
afterwards married Margaret Den of the old family of
Grenan, and their issue was the above Captain Wal-
ter. He inherited Talbot's-Inch and other estates in
Kilkenny, of which county he was at one time
Sheriff ; and, marrying Anne, sister of James Bryan
of Jenkinstown, had by her two sons, Richard and
Patrick, who with their father were engaged in this
service. A James Lawless was also a Lieutenant in

LUTTRELLS HORSE.

20o

this Regiment ; he was Town Clerk, prothonotary,
and Clerk of the Crown and Peace for Kilkenny ;
while an Edward Lawless was an Ensign in Sir
Maurice Eustace's Infantry.

The above Patrick Lawless, Captain Walter's son,
was taken prisoner at Aughrim;* he was then a
Major. Leaving this country on the Revolution, he
took refuge in Spain, where in the middle of the last
century he held high rank in the army of his Catholic
Majesty, and was Governor of Majorca and Minorca. f
In the Inquisition of 1691 on his attainder, he was
described as of Colemanstown in the County of Dub-
lin ; his father, Walter, being expressly named as of
Talbot's-Inch and Brownstown, as were his other sons
Richard and John. There were also then attainted
Thomas and Dominick Lawless of Dublin, and James
Fitz-Adam Lawless of Kilkenny City.

The Earl of Clarendon, while Viceroy of Ireland,
makes mention in 1686 of a Major Lawless, who had
been quartered at Kinsale, holding that rank in
Colonel Macarty's Regiment ; he died in this year at
Cork, whereby a pension of £200 per annum reverted

to the Crown. J At the Court of Claims in 1700,

those preferred, as affecting the estate of the above
Captain Walter, were Anne's as his widow for her
jointure — allowed ; and one of Thomas Lawless for
the amount of a bond debt charged on same and on

* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 137.
t De Burgo's Hib. Dom, p. 894.

\ Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 2, pp. 351-5-8.

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the inheritance of Richard his son. A portion of these
estates was sold in 1703 to the Hollow Swords
Blades' Company ; the other portions, within the Liber-
ties of Kilkenny, to Griffith Drisdale and Amyas
Bush of Kilfane, while the fee of Talbot's-Inch re-
verted to the See of Ossory. In the Cathedral of

Kilkenny are monuments to many members of this
family.

LIEUTENANT GERALD EVERS.

This family name is found at a very early period
after the Invasion connected with Meath. A close
Roll of 1373 purports to provide for expenses of
Robert ' de Evere,' a clerk of the Exchequer in Ire-
land, in his journey to England on the business of the
Bishop of Meath, who was then Treasurer of Ireland.
In 1386, the Marquis of Dublin committed to Robert
Evere (probably the same individual,) the custody of
the Mills of Trim, Ardmulchan, &c, which, by reason
of the death of Edward de Mortimer and the minority
of his heir, Roger, were then in the seisin of the

Crown.* In 1498, Robert Evers, an Englishman,

was Prior of the great mitred Abbey of Kilmain-

ham.f In 1631, Thomas Evers, Mayor of Dublin,

married Edith Mortimer, of another Meath family.

* Eot. Pat. 10 Rie. 2, in Cane. Hib.
t DAlton's Co. Dub., p. 622.

luttrell's horse.

207

He died in the following year, and was buried in St.
John's Church, Dublin.

The Attainders of 1642 include the names of Alex-
ander and James Evers of Eatain ; Patrick of Bellar-
din, and Edward of Noshingstown, all in the County
of Meath. Those of 1691 were of the above Gerald
Evers, described as of Moyrath, County of Meath,
Eandolf alias Ralph Evers of Tokeroane, do. (a Cor-
net in this Company,) Matthew Evers of Galmoys-
town, County of Westmeath, Charles Evers of Ballin-
ralline, Queen's County ; and Christopher Evers of
Bellardin, aforesaid. This latter estate, comprising
about 300 acres, was purchased in 1703, with other
possessions, by John Asgill of Dublin. Cicely Darcy,
otherwise Evers, claimed an estate for life thereon,
but her right was not admitted. Gerald Evers
claimed a remainder in tail therein, and his petition
was also dismist ; while, at the same Court, Mary
Evers, as Relict and Administratrix of William
Evers, deceased, and Matthew Evers, son and heir of
said William, claimed and were allowed sundry
interests in County of Westmeath lands, forfeited by
Sir John Nugent.

CORNET JOSEPH CRIPPS.

'CuiPPs'does not occur elsewhere on this Army List,
but this officer in his attainder of 1691, is described
as 4 of Killerney, County of Kilkenny, Gentleman.'

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The name is now traceable only in the County of
Limerick, in connection with that of Villiers.

QUARTERMASTER THOMAS CAREW.

Neither does 'Carew' occur elsewhere upon this List,
or at all in the Attainders of 1641 or 1691, nor does
he appear of kindred with the noble family of Castle-
borough, or with that of Ballinamona.

At the close of the reign of King John, Raymond
'de Karreu' granted the Church of ' Stacklorgan,'
with the advowson and the land around it, as an en-
dowment to Christ Church, Dublin ; and about the
same time he gave to the noble monastery of St.
Thomas-a-Becket in said city, a burgage in Dungar-
van, as also the Church of St. Colman of Cork, and
those of 'Matre,' Caroulton, and Tullaghrathen, with
all their appurtenances, and the whole tithes and eccle-
siastical dues thereto appertaining.* In one of the
Genealogical Manuscripts of Trinity College, Dublin,
(F 3, 27), is a pedigree of the Carews of Garryvroe,
for twelve generations ; but it closes with Robert
Carew of Garryvroe, who died in 1633, and the
Christian name of Thomas does not appear on the
whole line. It may be mentioned from Sir Richard
Cox, that in 1575, Sir Henry Sydney, while Lord
Deputy of Ireland, attended, at Waterford, the burial
of Sir Peter Carew, "whose ancestors had been Mar-

* Kings MSS., p. 180.

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209

quises of Cork, and claimed a mighty estate, compris-
ing the greater part of ancient Desmond in the
Counties of Cork, Waterford and Kerry," and that
claim the Mac Cartys, Barrys, and many other chiefs
of Munster offered to recognize, "in opposition to the
Earls of Desmond ; and proposed that, if Sir Peter
would come and reside amongst them, they would ad-
vance him three thousand kine, with sheep, hogs, and
corn, and annually pay him all reasonable demands;
but his death put an end to all these speculations."

REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

HUGH SUTHERLAND S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Comets.

Colonel
Lord Brittas.

Edward Preudergast, Dermott McAuliffe. Jolin Burke.
Lieut. -Col.

William Cox,
Major.

Cornelias Callaghan. Godfrey Conyngham. William Verdon.

Dmry Wray. James McDonnell. John Prendergast.

James Bryan. Matthew Roth. Francis Bryan.

Toby Matthews. William Matthews. John Ryan.

Edmund Walsh. Edward Danter.

Quarter-Masters.

Jo! m Hynes.

James Butler.

Ryan.

Maguirc.

Thomas Matthews
Jolin Walsh.

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COLONEL HUGH SUTHERLAND.

Early in this Campaign he was constituted a Briga-
dier, and, while the siege of Derry was pending, was
despatched with two Regiments of Infantry, one of
Dragoons, and two troops of Horse, to £ straiten 1
Enniskillen on the side of Belturbet ; while Colonel
Sarsfield, with whom he was to correspond, was
stationed within twelve miles of that town with three
troops of Horse, one of Dragoons, and three battalions
of Foot. On Sutherland's arrival for this object at
Belturbet, he received an order from Marshal Rosen,
then at Derry, to proceed to Omagh, to protect the
Irish blockading army in that direction.* Accord-
ingly, on the fifth of July, Berwick wrote to Lieu-
tenant-General Hamilton, the Irish Commander at
the camp before that City, " I marched yesterday-
morning from Newtown- Stewart, and, joining Colonel
Sutherland at ' Omey,' I marched hither my advanced
guard, cut off several of their sentries, and pushed a
great many of the Rebels' party with such vigour as
they beat with thirty Dragoons three Troops of
Horse of theirs, which were drawn up at a distance
from us."f Colonel Sutherland was engaged at the
Boyne, and, though he was wounded, his Regiment
suffered little, " having to do only with the enemy's
horse, which he soon repulsed. "J

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 267.
f Manuscripts T.C.D., E 2, 19.
\ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 400.

SUTHERLAND'S HORSE.

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LIEUTENANT- COLONEL EDWARD
PRENDERGAST.

This name came into Ireland with Earl ' Strongbow,'
who induced Maurice de Prendergast to accompany
him in the Invasion, and made over to him a tract of
country, called Fernegenelan, to hold by the service
of ten Knights.* In 1207, King John, having found
the Barons of Leinster and Meath opposed to giving
effect to the Royal Writs of Right, &c. sent mandates
to Walter, Hugh, and Robert de Lacy, Lords of
Meath and Ulster ; to Richard de Tuite, Philip de
Prendergast, &c. wherein he expressed surprise " that
they should attempt establishing a new form of trial
without his assent, or seek his Justiciary to deliver
to them, without his orders, what had been taken at
the hands of the Crown by royal precept ; and he
commanded them not to L default ' towards him, their
Lord, and declared with God's and his rights he will
acquire, according to time and place. "f In 1229,
King Henry summoned Gerald de Prendergast, as
one of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland, to a military muster
at Portsmouth for service in Brittany ; and again, in
1244, for the Scottish war. This Gerald, being
Patron of the Abbey of Canons Regular at Ennis-
corthy, made a grant thereof to be a cell to the noble
House of St. Thomas-a-Beoket in Dublin. J A List

* Wares Ant., v. 1, p. 191.

t Kot. Pat. Tur. Lond. 8 Jac. 1.

\ King's MSS. Dub. Soc, pp. 178-9.

P 2

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of the Barons and Knights of Richard de Burgo's
Palatinate in Connaught, in 1242, names this Gerald
de Prendergast as one.* In 1278, Geoffrey de
Prendergast sued Paganus de Hinteberg for the
estate of his mother Alienora, in the County of Limer-
ick, by wager of battle. It was fought accordingly with
all legal formalities of the day, and the appellant
gained the battle and the lands. In 1326, Geoffrey
de Prendergast was one of the Commissioners of
Array for the County of Kilkenny. In 1414, Robert
Prendergast was Abbot of the mitred House of the
Blessed Virgin of Dublin ; and, in the Parliament of
1585, Edward Prendergast was one of the Repre-
sentatives for the County of the Crosses of Tipperary.
In a MS. Volume of the Royal Dublin Society's Col-
lection, entitled ' Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis]
occurs (at page 384) a transcript of an extraordinary
deed, by which the Lady Eleanor Butler, being a
co-heiress to the title of Baron of Cahir, affected to
convey same to Sir Thomas Prendergast, about the
time of Charles the First.

Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, in
1646, was James Prendergast of Tullivellan ; and
the Royal declaration of gratitude, contained in the
Act of Settlement, includes Ensign John Prender-
gast, the same individual possibly who was a Cornet
in this Regiment. This name is especially distin-
guished in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry, where
Geoffrey Prendergast was a Captain, Walter and

* MS. in Trin. Coll. Lib., Dublin.

Sutherland's horse.

213

Robert Prendergast, Lieutenants, andJames Prender-
gast an Ensign. The latter James was indicted in
1691, by the description of Harristown, County of
Kilkenny ; as was another James as of Butlerstown,
County of Wexford. Thomas Prendergast of Bally -
fernogue, and Nicholas Prendergast of Enniscorthy,
were then likewise attainted, and a Geoffry Prender-
gast, at this time, forfeited estates in Galway and
Mayo.

After the Revolution, this Lieutenant-Colonel Ed-
ward passed into France, and was there appointed to
the same rank in Colonel Sheldon's Brigade.

At the battle of Lauffield, in 1747, Dennis Prender-
gast, a Lieutenant in Lally's Brigade, was wounded. *

MAJOR WILLIAM COX.

This name does not otherwise appear in the Army
List or attainders, nor has any notice, that could
identify him or his family, been discovered. The
most remarkable individual of the name at this period
was of the Williamite politics, Richard Cox of Wilt-
shire descent ; who, in September, 1690, was appoint-
ed a Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, vice Justice
Denis Duly, hereafter alluded to. lie was knighted
in the following year, promoted to the Chief .Justice-
ship in 1701, and in 1 7o:>, appointed Lord High

* Oont. Mag/, ad ann., p. 377.

214 king james's irish army list.

Chancellor of Ireland, from which he was preferred
to be Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1711.
The manuscript Diary of Primate Narcissus Marsh,
(preserved in the public Library in Dublin which
bears his name,) contains at the 26th of April, 1693,
an interesting notice of Judge Cox : — " This evening,
at six of the clock, we met at the Provost's lodgings
in Trinity College, Dublin, in order to the renewal of
our philosophical meeting, where Sir Eichard Cox,
one of the Justices of 4 the King's Bench,' read a
geographical Description of the City and County of
Derry, and of the County of Antrim, being part of
an entire Geographical Description of the whole King-
dam of Ireland, that is designed to be perfected by
him ; wherein also will be contained a Natural
History of Ireland, containing the most remarkable
things to be found that are the product of nature."
This work, however, never was printed, though others
from his pen have been. In October, 1706, Sir
Richard was created a Baronet, and died in 1733, of
apoplexy, leaving issue. Ware, in his 4 Writers of
Ireland,' gives forty-four pages illustrative of the life
and times of this Sir Richard Cox.

CAPTAIN DRURY WRAY.

Neither does this name appear elsewhere upon the
present ' List.' The family was originally seated
within the Bishopric of Durham, and subsequently

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215

possessed estates in Richmondshire, County of York.
From it descended Sir Christopher Wray, Knight,
who was a member of all the Parliaments of Queen
Mary's reign, and, in that of Elizabeth, was Speaker of
the House of Commons. He was ultimately consti-
tuted Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, in
which high office he died, in 1592. His son, Sir
William Wray, was created a Baronet ; and the above
Captain Drury Wray, his descendant and heir male,
was the sixth in the succession. He was so attainted
in 1691, and his estates in the County of Limerick
were consequently sold by the Commissioners of the
Forfeitures, partly to John Berry of Ballinacargy,
in said County, and partly to the Hollow Swords
Blades ' Company ; while the Rectories and Rec-
torial tithes which he possessed therein, were, accord-
ing to the policy of the Settlement, granted to the
See of Limerick for the augmentation of vicarages.

At the Court of Claims, Major Christopher Wray,
the eldest son of Sir Drury, claimed and was allowed
a reversion in fee, after his father's decease, in various
lands in Limerick, and also in others in Cork. He
preferred his claim as by descent, being the eldest
son and heir to Anne Casey his mother : he also
claimed and was allowed an annuity off said lands.
Major Christopher offers one of many instances of
the sad domestic severance which this campaign
effected, fighting as he did at the Boyne for King
William. He afterwards served in the wars of Flanders,
Spain, and Portugal, as Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel

216

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Farrington's Regiment ; and eminently distinguished
himself at the attack of Ostend.* His father, Sir
Drury, dying in 1710, he became the seventh
Baronet.

CAPTAIN TOBY MATTHEW.

This noble family is located in Ortelius's map in the
Barony of Eliogurty, County of Tipperary. On Irish
law records the name appears from early in the com-
mencement of the fourteenth century ; in the fifteenth,
King Henry the Fourth committed to Thomas Mat-
thew, of the County of Meath, the custody of various
lands therein, and in Drogheda.f

The attainders of 1642 have, of this family, only
David Matthew of Castlemore, County of Cork. In
the Assembly of Confederate Catholics, Emir 1 Mat-
thews' sat amongst the Spiritual Peers as Bishop of
Clogher. — In King James's Charter to Cashel, William
Matthew was a Burgess, as was James Matthew in
that to Carlingford, (he was a Lieutenant in Galmoy's
Horse,) and Francis Matthew in that to Ardee.

In 1686, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant,
visited the noble establishment of Captain Matthew,
at Thomastown, County of Tipperary. He seems to
have been the above named officer, and the lineal de-

* Burke's Landed Gentry, Sup. p. 246-7.
t Rot. Pat, 4 Hen. IV. in Cane. Hib.

Sutherland's horse.

217

scendant of David Matthew, the great Standard
Bearer of Edward the Fourth, whose monument is
still to be seen in the Cathedral of Landaff, and
whose issue were Lords of Baydor in Glamorganshire,
as also of Landaff. "I came hither," writes Lord
Clarendon, ulast night, where I have been most
kindly used. It is a very fine place and the most
improved of any situation I have ever seen since I
came into this kingdom ; especially considering that
it is but sixteen years since he first sat down there,

when there was no house upon it."* His estate

Lord Clarendon styles, "of the new interest," thus
distinguishing it from those of the old native Septs.
More extended details of the singular hospitality
lavished at Thomastown by his heir in the following
century, when it became a hotel for all who chose to
visit it, where each guest might have a separate room
and meals ; and a distinct department, called a tavern,
was appropriated for the use of the less temperate ; are
given in the biography of Dean Swift, who, during
the early part of his residence in Ireland, was a visitor
there.

A Colonel Matthew of the Irish forces was taken
prisoner at Aughrim,f and, amongst those outlawed
in 1691, was Toby or Theobald Matthew, styled of
Thomastown, County of Tipperary, Esq. on whose
estate the right of Catherine Matthew, his widow, for
a leasehold interest, preferred on behalf of herself, and

* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 2, p. 6.
f Rawdon Correspondence, p. 351.

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her children, Theobald, Mary, Frances, Catherine and
Neville Matthew, was allowed by the Commissioners

at the Court of Claims. Others of this name then

outlawed were William Matthew, also described as of
Thomastown, Gent. ; James Matthew of Carlingford,
above mentioned ; Patrick and Sylvester Matthew of
Dunbin, Blackall-Andrew Matthew of Melleshant
[Mellefont,] clerk ; James Matthew of Charlestown,
County of Louth ; and George Matthew of Carlow ;
while Patrick and Sylvester forfeited lands in the
Barony of Cremorne, County of Monaghan, which
were sold by the Commissioners of the forfeited
estates to William Fortescue of the County of Louth.

LIEUTENANT GODFREY CONYNGHAM.

This name does not appear elsewhere on the Army
List, nor at all on the Attainders ; while a doubt of
this officer's adherence to King James is raised by the
fact, that at the Court of Claims in 1703, a 'Lieute-
nant Godfrey Conyngham' claimed and was allowed
sundry leasehold interests affecting lands in the
County of Cork, forfeited by Donogh, Earl of Clan-
carty. On this occasion also, a James, son of Andrew
Conyngham, petitioned for premises in Strabane,
while Josias 'Cunningham' claimed and was allowed

a freehold in the County of Antrim. Under the

latter spelling of this surname, it may be noticed that

SUTHERLAND'S HORSE.

219

a Colonel 'Cimingham' is stated to have fought for
King William at the battle of Aughrim.*

COENET WILLIAM VEEDON.

The subordinate rank of this officer here, evinces how
much this once illustrious family had then declined
from its early and influential character. Previous to
the Invasion of Ireland by Henry the Second, the
chivalrous family of De Yerdon was settled at Alton,
where is now the splendid seat of the Earl of Shrews-
bury. From thence, in 1184, Bertram Yerdon ac-
companied Prince John to Ireland, and was appointed
Seneschal of the Pale, with a grant of the Barony of
Dundalk, the Lordship of Clonmore, and other
estates in the County of Louth. In his time the
Borough of Dundalk was incorporated, and there he
founded a Priory for the order of Cross-bearers.
Nicholas, his son and heir, succeeded to these estates,
and died, leaving issue only a daughter, who married
Theobald le Botiller. Their son, John de Yerdon,
assumed the family name of his mother, and he it was
who founded, in the time of Henry the Third, the
Gray Friary at Dundalk. His son J Theobald de
Yerdon, was present at the Parliament of Westmin-
ster in 1275, where he gave the important consent,
that the same customs should be payable upon wool,

* Rawdon Papers, p. 357.

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king james's irish army list.

wool-fells, and hides shipped from the ports of his
Liberties in Ireland, in the same manner as had been
granted by the Archbishops, &c, of England upon
wool, woolfells, &c, exported therefrom. In two years
after and subsequently, he was engaged in those expedi-
tions against Wales, which extinguished the struggles
of that country for independence. In 1288, he was
besieged in the Castle of Athlone, by Eichard de
Burgo, the 'Red' Earl of Ulster, who then pretended
title to the Lordship of Meath. He had frequent mili-
tary summonses to King Edward's wars from that
period, as one of the 'Fideles' of Ireland. In 1299,
he was called on, as a Baron, to do service against
the Scots, as was his son Theobald, the younger, in the
same year, c by reason of his father's declining health.'
In 1310, this younger Theobald succeeded to the
estates and honors of his father, then deceased. In
three years after, he was appointed Lord Justice of
Ireland, and died in 1314, leaving only female issue,
awho," as Baron Finglas remarks in his Breviate,
"being married to noblemen who dwelled still in Eng-
land, and took such profits as they could get for a
while, and sent small defence for their lands in Ire-
land ; so as, within few years after, all their portions
were lost except certain manors within the English
Pale, which Thomas, Baron of Slane, and Sir Robert
Hollywood, Sir John Cruise, and Sir John Bellew
purchased in King Richard the Second's time ; and
this hath been the decay of half of Meath, which did
not obey the King's laws this hundred years and

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221

more." The name of De Verdon continued however
to be represented in Louth by the male descendants
of other sons of the founder. At the Parliament of
York, in 1319, the King granted to Nicholas de Ver-
don, (who was one of the next heirs male of John,
who first, as before mentioned, assumed the name,)
the manor of Mandevilleston, County of Louth ;
which had come to the Crown by the surrender of
Ralph Pipard. In 1335, Milo de Verdon, another of
those male descendants, received a Royal Mandate to
attend John D'Arcy, the Justiciary, with arms and
horses in his expedition for the King's aid against
Scotland.* In 1374, Patrick Verdon had summons
to Parliament by writ, and in the same year, on the
occasion of the memorable Parliament of Westmin-
ster, to which Edward the Third required the attend-
ance of a certain number of the Representatives of
Irish interests, Richard de Verdon and Roger Gernon
were chosen as members for the ancient borough of
Drogheda.f

The above notices have been extracted from 4 Col-
lections for a History of DundalkJ which the
compiler of these 'Illustrations' had drawn up some
years since, (never published) ; but to extend this
article by the many other available annals of this
great name would not be allowable ; here, therefore,
it must suffice to add, that in 1624 Christopher Ver-
don died, seised in fee by a long ancestral line of suc-

* D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 84.
t Idem, v. 1, p. 244.

222 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

cession, of the Castle and manor of Clonmore, with
mills, lands, &c., and of chiefries of the aforesaid
manor of Mandevillstown ; leaving John Verdon, his
eldest son and heir, then 22 years of age and married,
and two other sons, Patrick and Robert. This John
was the only one of the name attainted in 1642 ; and
the ruins of the Castle which he and his ancestors
had theretofore held at Clonmore, are still traceable.
His namesake and descendant, John Yerdon, (titu-
larly) styled of Clonmore, was attainted in 1691,
while the name of this William, who must have been
of the family, does not appear in the Outlawries, nor
does any other Yerdon on this Army List.

CORNET EDWARD DANTER.

There is no other of this name on the List nor any
in the Outlawries.

QUARTER-MASTER JOHN HYNES.

Amongst the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in
1646, was Thomas ' Heynes of Feathard,' but the
name does not otherwise appear on this List, nor at
all in the Outlawries.

PARKER'S HORSE.

223

REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

john Parker's.

Captains.

The Colonel.
Francis Giffard,

Lieut. -Colonel.
John Metham,

Major.
Eobert Nugent.
James Doddington.
Thomas Eccleston.
Walter Hastings.
James Hobb.
Edward Weddering-

ton.

Lieutenants.

Thomas Greene.
Robert Lowich.

Isidore Delagarde,
George Bamfield.
Robert Chernock.
George Oldfield.
Charles Skelton.

Cornets.

Quarter-Masters.

Edward Haly. Edward Conforth.
Thomas Smallbone. Joseph Acton.

John Hills.
Philemon MacCartie.

Cormick O'Sullivan.
Michael Stritch.
Thomas Selby.

COLONEL JOHN PARKER,

This name is of Irish record from the time of Richard
the Second. In 1403, Geoffrey Parker was consti-
tuted Mayor of the Staple in Dublin. Immediately
after, a John Parker filled the office of Grand Sergeant
of the County of Kildare.*

In 1552, John Parker was appointed Master of the
Rolls in Ireland ; and he was in 1561, an Ecclesiasti-
cal Commissioner. From him descended his name-
sake, the above Colonel.f When, on the 26th of

* Rolls in Chancery.

t Graham's Derriana, p. 31.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

August, 1689, King James resolved on going to meet
the recently landed Schomberg, he took with him to
Drogheda a hundred of his own Horse Guards, with
two hundred of Parker's Horse, for the object of being
nearer to the enemy, where he might better observe
their motions*. This Eegiment sustained especial
loss at the Battle of the Boyne, where several of its
officers fell, and the Colonel was himself wounded.
His Lieutenant-Colonel (then Greene), and his Major
James Doddington, (Captain on this list) and many
other officers were also killed ; " of the two squadrons
of that Eegiment, there came off only about thirty
sound men."f It and Tyrconnel's suffered most on
that critical day. In Clarke's Correspond-
ence, preserved in the manuscripts of Trinity College,
is a letterj written by Robert Southwell to George
Clarke, Secretary of War, in which he recommends
the bearer, Lieutenant Cleere, as " a person of prin-
cipal consideration in the town of Clonmel, and ex-
tremely zealous to promote His Majesty's service
throughout the whole County. He lies under some
hardships, which are not to be suffered towards such
a person." An endorsement on the letter states that
" said Cleere had taken several horses and brought in
divers persons, and that he desires the horses he
took from Colonel Parker's Troopers :" the prayer
was granted.

On the attainders of 1642, is the name of Edward

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 373. t Idem, p. 400.

} Clarke's Corresp. MSS., v. 1, Letter 74.

parker's horse.

225

Parker described as of Templeogue, County of Dublin ;
on those of 1691, is this Parker, styled of the City of
Dublin, Esq. While, in the claims preferred in
1703, a John Parker made a remarkable one for
£5,000, which he alleged to be due to him, on foot of
a mortgage of lands and rectories in the County of
Kildare, forfeited by the Earl of Tyrconnel ; but his
claim was disallowed as false, and he was adjudged

to pay £10,000. The name does not otherwise

appear upon the Army List.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS GIFFORD.

This name does not occur here again, and Colonel
Thomas appears to have early retired from the ser-
vice ; as at the Boyne the Lieutenant-Colonel of this
Regiment was Greene, who was killed there. The
name is of high antiquity in Ireland, and to the
memorable parliament of Westminster in 1376, the
Clergy of the Diocese of Cashel sent John c Geffard '
to be their Representative. In that of 1560, Henry
4 Geafford ' was one of the Representatives of the
Borough of Dun gar van. By the Act of Settlement
in 1662, arrears of pay due to Sir Thomas Gifford,
Baronet, then deceased, were directed to be paid to
his relict Dame Martha Gifford. The Colonel, it
would seem, was of this family.

226

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

MAJOR JOHN METHAM

Is subject to much the same remarks as was the last
officer. The Major at the Boyne was James Dodding-
ton, the Captain on this muster.

CAPTAIN JAMES DODDINGTON,

Promoted to the Majority and killed at the Boyne, as
supra. A Captain Edward Doddington had the
command of 100 foot soldiers under the Lord Presi-
dent of Munster, in the war of that Province during
the reign of Elizabeth. When, at the close of the
year 1602, it was resolved to storm the Castle of
Dunboy, a breach having been made that was con-
sidered assailable, the decision of who was to lead the
assault having been referred to the dice, it fell upon
this Captain Doddington, who was 4 shot with two
bullets in his body, but not mortal.'*

CAPTAIN THOMAS ECCLESTON.

A branch of the Ecclestons of Eccleston in Lancas-
shire settled previous to this reign in the County of
Louth, where, in the churchyard of Drumshallon,
within the ruins of the old church, are monuments
commemorating the family, from Walter Eccleston

* Pacata Hibernia, pp. 568 & 574.

parker's horse.

227

of Drunishallon, in December, 1675, to William, who
died in August, 1798. A manuscript book of pedi-
grees in Trinity College, Dublin, (F 3, 27) suggests
that the said Walter was the son of Tristram Eccles-
ton (who died in 1636), by his second wife Dorothy,
daughter of William Cranshaw of Lancashire ; and that
Tristram was himself the youngest son of James, who
was the son of Hugh Eccleston of the house of Eccles-
ton in Lancashire.

CAPTAIN WALTER HASTINGS.

A f Major ' Hastings, possibly this ' Captain,' was
committed a prisoner to the Tower in 1690.

CAPTAIN JAMES HOBB.

This name is not again on this Army List, while on
the Attainders only that of Richard ' Hobbs ' of Creagh,
County of Wexford, appears.

LIEUTENANT THOMAS GREENE.

He was attainted in 1691, by the description of
Thomas Greene, Junior, of Corrstown, County of Kil-
kenny ; but nothing more has been ascertained con-
cerning him, nor what might be his kindred (as there
probably was such,) with the Lieutenant-Colonel

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killed, as before mentioned, at the Boyne. The war-
rant for pardon to a Nicholas Greene of Cork, dated
in 1701, is preserved in Harris's MSS, in the Koyal
Dublin Society* from which it appears that he was a
merchant, and had transported the 1 King's 7 provisions
to France in the ship 1 James,' in time of war. His
pardon was, however, granted, on the ground " that
said Greene was ignorant of the freightage at the
time ; that theretofore, while the Irish party was in
possession of Cork and for ten years since, he had
adhered to the Protestant religion and interest ; and
that, when the Williamite forces landed in the har-
bour of Cork, he was the person who, at the hazard
of his life, guided them over that part of the sea
which encompassed the east marsh next adjoining
the said City, whereupon the garrison capitulated ;
and that he hath shewed his affection to our interest
by exposing his life whenever our affairs required
his service ; and for that particularly, with his own
hands, he took and brought in several proclaimed
Traitors and Tories, who suffered punishment for their
crimes, and that there were not wanting ample

testimonies to his integrity." At the Court of

Chichester House, in 1700, a John Greene claimed
the benefit of a leasehold interest in " the Castle and
great White House at Lucan," the land called the
Wood, and several other premises, as forfeited by
Patrick Sarsfield. His petition was however dismist
for non-prosecution.

* Vol. 10, p. 309.

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Lieutenants,

ROBERT LOWICH,
ISIDORE DELAGARDE, (French)
GEORGE BAMFIELD,
ROBERT CHERNOCK.

None of these names occur again on the Army
List, or at all on the Attainders.

LIEUTENANT GEORGE OLDFIELD.

He appears to have been of a Wexford family. The
Outlawries of 1691 present the names of James and
Thomas Oldfield, of Duncannon in the County of
Wexford.

LIEUTENANT CHARLES SKELTON.

A sketch of Pedigree of the Skeltons of Sleaty in
the Queen's County, is preserved among the Manu-
scripts of Trinity College, Dublin (F 3, 27); and,
although the Christian name of this officer does not
appear upon it, he may probably have belonged to
the line.

Sir Bevil Skelton was the first who, while Envoy
at the Hague in 1688, having intercepted a letter by
which he learned the meditated expedition of the
Rrince of Orange, communicated it to King James; but

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not being accredited, he only incurred hostility there-
by, which led to his committal to the Tower. He
was, however, within a few days made Lieutenant
of the place which he had entered a prisoner.*
On this ' List • a Thomas Skelton appears Lieu-
tenant in the King's Own Foot, while a James Skelton
is described as one of the witnesses to the Capitu-
lation of Galway, 21st July, 1691. In the Septem-
ber following, this James, described as then a Colonel,
was taken prisoner at the siege of Limerick, when
defending the fort at Thomond Bridge. He died of

the wounds he there sustained, f The Attainders

of 1691 exhibit the names of John and Bevil Skelton

of Dublin, and Maria Skelton, otherwise O'Brien.

Another Colonel Skelton passed over with James the
Second to France, and was Comptroller in the Estab-
lishment at St. Germains.J

CORNET THOMAS SMALLBONE.

f EDMOND CONFORTH

None of these surnames occur again upon this List
or on the Attainders.

* Harris's Life of William III., p. 127.

t Story's Impartial History, part 2, pp. 180 & 225.

X Harleian Collections, v. 11, p. 391.

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QUARTER-MASTER JOHN HILL.

The Attainders of 1641 include the names of Sir
William Hill, Knight, of Ballybeg or Allenstown,
County of Meath : and of Philip and Patrick Hill of
Dromyn, County of Wicklow. Those outlawed in
1691 were Arthur, Dominick, and James Hill of
Allenstown aforesaid, Gentlemen ; but no mention is
made of a John Hill.

QUARTER-MASTER CORMICK O'SULLIVAN.

This noble Sept was possessed of the ancient territory
of Beara, comprising the modern Baronies of Beare
and Ban try in the County of Cork, whence their
Chiefs took their respective designations of the
O'Sullivan Beare and the O'Sullivan Bantry ; while
another branch, styled O'Sullivan More, lorded over
Dunkerrin and part of Iveragh in the County of
Kerry, and a third were Chiefs of Knockgraffon in
Tipperary. At the close of the twelfth century,
Laurence O'Sullivan succeeded to the See of Cloyne ;
as did Alan O'Sullivan thereto in 1240, in some
years after which he was promoted to that of Lismore,
where he died in 1253. In 1376, the King, at the
instance of "his faithful liege, MacCarty of Des-
mond, Captain of his Nation," granted to Thomas
0' 'Soulevan,' and Mac Creagh O'Soulevan, liberty to
pass over to the Court of Rome, provided they carried

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or did nothing prejudicial to the English King. The
Four Masters relate that in 1398, Mac Cartie of
Carberry, in Cork, gave the O'Sullivan a complete
overthrow, when two of his sons, Owen and Connor,
with many others, were slain. They give melancholy
importance to an annal of 1404, where it is said, " A
contest arose between Mac Carty and O'Sullivan
Buidhe ; and Turlogh Meith Mac Mahon was Mac
Carty's admiral at that time, who overtook O'Sullivan
at sea ; and also the sons of Dermod Mac Carty,
who were aiding O'Sullivan against Mac Car thy ; he
drowned O'Sullivan on that occasion, and took Donal,
son of Dermod Mac Carthy, prisoner." In 1563,
" O'Sullivan Beare, i. e. Donal, the son of Dermod,
son of Donal, son of Donal, son of Dermod Balbh, (the
stammerer) fell by the hand of a bad chief, namely,
Mac Gillicuddy ; and though famous as had been his
father Dermod, that Donal was a Avorthy heir to him ;
and his kinsman, Owen O'Sullivan, succeeded in his
place."

In the year 1581, the son of O'Sullivan, i. e. Donal,
the son of Donal, (of 1563) defeated the people of
Carberry. a The manner in which that happened
was this ; Captain Siuits (Zouch) having proceeded
from Cork through Carberry to the monastery of
Bantry, sent the sons of Turlogh, the son of Maol-
murry, son of Donagh Mac Sweeny, the son of
O'Donovan, and a number of the chiefs of Pobbles
and of the gentlemen of Carberry, to plunder the
son of O'Sullivan. The forces sent by the Captain

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having taken immense spoils and much booty, Donal
thought it a great mortification to suffer his property
to be carried away, and he himself alive ; and he
therefore attacked the Irish clans who were about
the booty, and it was verified on that day, that it is
not by a numerous force that a battle is gained, for
nearly three hundred of the Carberians were slain by
Donal, although his own party did not number much
more than fifty men who were able to fight in that
battle." To Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585
went "the O'Sullivan Beare, L e. Owen, the son of
Dermod, son of Donal, son of Donogh, son of Der-
mod Balbh ; as also O'Sullivan More, i. e. Owen, son
of Donal, son of Donal-na-Sgreadaighe." At the
crisis of the Munster War, O'Neill and O'Donnell
confided the command and control of their forces
(according to the Four Masters) to the O'Sullivan
Beare, then Donal, son of Donal, son of Dermod ;
'for he was the chief commander of his party in Mun-
ster, at that time, in wisdom and valour.' The
O'Sullivans, who had many strong castles over their
extent of maritime country, were inalienably at-
tached to the Desmond (see the 4 Pacata Hibernia '
passim). By that devotion, and the discomfiture at
Kinsale, they suffered large confiscations, and their
chief, the aforesaid Donal or Daniel, retiring to
Spain, distinguished himself there in military service
under the title of Count of Berehaven.*

In 1604, according to the state policy of the

* Ferrar's Limciick, p. 174.

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time, Dermot, Daniel, and Cnogher O'Sullivan, de-
scribed as sons of Daniel O'Sullivan More, deceased,
surrendered all their lands and chiefries in Kerry,
with the object of obtaining a re-grant thereof to
them in fee from the Crown. In the following year,
at the Eoyal instance, a similar surrender and re-
grant of the estates of Owen O'Sullivan, called the
O'Sullivan More, was effected by patents, with an
arrangement for the extinction of that Captaincy,
and for granting said Owen the title of Baron in
lieu thereof. He had afterwards, in 1612, an en-
larged grant of various Castles, Lands, Fisheries,
Duties, Markets, Courts, Tolls, and Chief Rents, as
formerly granted to his father 6 Sir' Owen O'Sullivan,
(the rents having been payable to the Earl of Des-
mond) to hold same to him, the said Owen, in tail
male.* In 1613, Sir Thomas Roper had a grant of
large estates in Munster, and amongst these were
" parcels of the estates of Teigue Mc Daniel 0' ' Swelli-
van,' and of Owen M'Donnell M'Donough O'Swellivan,
late of Cahirdonellmore, both slain in rebellion." In
1632, when the sea at the south of Ireland was in-
fested with Algerine Rovers, the Lord President of that
Province, in a letter to the Lords Justices, in reference
to the precautions he had taken to secure the coast of
Cork, writes: — "Mr. Daniel O'Sullivan has a house of
reasonable strength at Berehaven, and takes upon
him to defend it and Ballygobbin ; he promises to

* Rolls, Temp. Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib.

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erect five beacons upon the Dorseys, and four upon
the great island. I have directed 0' Sullivan More,
who lives on the river of Kenmare, to take warning
from the beacon erected on the promontory over the
Dorseys, and by one of his own, to assemble his
tenants and servants at his strong and defensible
castle ; but I think this caution needless, as the
inhabitants on both sides of that river are but few,
till as far up as Glaneraught, where the pirates dare
not venture."*

In the Attainders of 1642 were Donell O'Sullivan
Beare, of Berehaven, Philip O'Sullivan of Loughandy,
Owen of Inchiclough and Drimdavane, Donell Mac
Owen of Drumgarvan, John Mac Dermody of Der-
ryne, G-illicuddy O'Sullivan of Traghprashy, Connor
O'Sullivan of Loughane, and Owen Neagh O'Sullivan

of Drumgowlane, all in the County of Cork. This

Sept was represented at the supreme Council of Kil-
kenny by O'Sullivan More of Dunkeiran, and Daniel
O'Sullivan of Culmagort ; while the Declaration of
Eoyal gratitude, in the Act of Settlement, preserves
the names of Captain Dermot O'Sullivan of Kilmeloe,
Lieutenant O'Sullivan of Fermoyle, and Ensign
Owen O'Sullivan, all in the County of Cork.

Of these outlawed in 1691, were Daniel O'Sullivan
of Eosmacone, McDermott Cnogher Sullivan, and
Cornelius Sullivan of Shiskeen ; Owen MacMurtough
Sullivan of Berehaven, John Mac Murtough Sulli-
van of Lanlaurence, Thady Sullivan of Killiebane,

* Smith's Cork, v. 1, p. 279.

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Clerk, all in the County of Cork ; with Dermot Mac
Donell 4 Soolevane ' of Litton, and Florence 1 Soole-
vane ' of Nodden in the County of Kerry. In 1696,
Henry Lord Shelburne passed patent for lands of the
O'Sullivan More in the Barony of Dunkerron, County
of Kerry, his widow Mary receiving jointure off part

thereof.- At the Court of Claims, however,

Daniel 0' ' Sullevane,' styled, 4 More,' claimed and was
allowed a fee by descent from Daniel O'Sullivan, his
grandfather, in the romantic district of Thomies at
Killarney, forfeited by Sir Nicholas Browne ; while
Sheely Sullivane, widow and executrix of Donald
Sullevane More, and Desmond Sullevane, their son
and heir, claimed interests in Cork lands, forfeited by
the Earl of Clancarty. Teigue Sullevane sought a
freehold near Killarney, also forfeited by Nicholas
Brown, but his petition was dismist ; while William
Sullevane claimed and was allowed a freehold in
Kerry lands, forfeited by Valentine Brown; and
Daniel Sullevane and Henrietta his wife, for them-
selves and their children, petitioned (but were dis-
mist) for freeholds and remainders in the Counties
of Wicklow, Kildare, and Kilkenny, — the confiscations
of Sir Edward Scott.

A Sullivan was the last companion of the unfortu-
nate Prince Charles Edward, and shared all the hard-
ships and perils of his outcast days in Scotland.

At Ypres, in 1745, Tim O'Sullivan and Florence
Sullivan were of the wounded ; while at the battle of
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Brigade was wounded, and subsequently Major O'Sul-
livan was for many years Town-Major of Prague.* —
" There is (1750) in Spain," writes Smith, in his
History of Cork, (vol. 1, p. 294) " a descendant of
O'Sullivan Bear, who is ennobled and called the
Count of Berehaven, and is also said to be hereditary

Governor of the Groyne." In the American War,

John Sullivan superseded Arnold in the command of
the American army in Canada, in June, 1776 ; but
was soon driven out of that Province. He was after-
wards distinguished in the battles of Brandywine and
Germantown. In 1778, he laid siege to Newport,
and in the following year commanded an expedition
against the Six Nations of Indians in the State of
New York ; but resigned his command in chagrin at
the end of that year. In 1786, 1787, and 1789, he
was Governor of New Hampshire, and died in January,
1795.f

QUARTER-MA STEP MICHAEL STPITCH.

The Stritches are located on Ortelius's Map in the
Barony of Small-County, Limerick. When Ireton
took that City in 1651, Alderman Thomas Stritch
was one of the citizens excluded from mercy. In
May, 1640, Nicholas Stritch, as son and heir of Rich-
ard Stritch of Limerick, sued out 4 livery' of his

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 498.
t Gent. Mag., 1855, p. 122.

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estates from the Court of Ward. Besides this officer,
Stephen 4 Stretch' is, in the present Army List, an
Ensign in Sir Charles O'Bryan's Infantry (post).
On the Outlawries of 1691 the above Quarter-Master
is described as of Kilrush, County of Clare; an
Edward 'Stretch' of Limerick was likewise then
attainted. At the Court of Claims none were pre-
ferred against estates of the Stritches ; but Bartholo-
mew Stritch, as son and heir of Patrick Stritch,
claimed and was allowed a mortgage charged on lands
in Clare, forfeited by Daniel Mulloney.

QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS SELBY.

This name does not otherwise occur on the List, nor
on the Attainders. The ' Pacata Hibernia' makes
mention, (p. 656) of a Thomas Selby, Lieutenant to
Captain Francis Slingsby, in the War of Munster,
temp. Elizabeth, who, in a sharp engagement with the
4 Rebels' of that Province, succeeded in taking from
them 2000 cows, 4,000 sheep, and 1000 ' garrans'
(horses).

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REGIMENTS OF HORSE.

COLONEL NICHOLAS PURCELL S

Cajrtains.

The Colonel.
Robert Purcell,

Lieut. -Colonel.
Charles Mc Donnel

Major.
John Everard.
Miles Bourk.
Daniel Mc Carthy.
Anthony Morres.
John Purcell.
James Butler, of

Dunbojne.

Lieutenants.

James Fitzgerald.
Thomas Purcell.

Michael Kerny.
Cornelius Meagher.
Piers Power.
John Kennedy.
Theobald Purcell.
Theobald Butler.

Cornets.

James Butler.
Anthony Purcell.

Thomas Travers.
Bryan Meagher.
Owen Mc Carthy.
Hugh Kennedy.
Hugh Purcell.
Thomas Meagh.

Quarter- Masters.

William Bannon.
Daniel Quinn.

James Tumy.
John Fitzgerald.
Edmund Meagher,
Richard Keating.
James Wale.

COLONEL NICHOLAS PURCELL.

The meagre Army List printed in the Somers' Col-
lection of Tracts, (vol. XL p. 411) classes this Regi-
ment among the Dragoons, and reports its strength
as twelve troops, totting 720 men. It was chiefly
raised in Tipperary. Sir Hugh Purcell, the ancestor
of this family in Ireland, married Beatrix, daughter of
Theobald Butler. The name was early introduced
into Munster, where it soon became so numerous
that the rolls of licences for protection and pardon
in the year 1310, (in prudence then necessitated)
include no less than thirteen adult Purcells ; while

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eight years previously Hugh, Philip, Maurice, and
Adam Purcell were of the Irish magnates summoned
to the Scottish war. A friary for Conventual Francis-
cans was founded in 1240, at Waterford, by the Lord
1 Hugh Purcell,' who was interred there in the same
year.* John Purcell, Abbot of St. Thomas's Monastery
of Dublin, having given credence to the pretensions of
Lambert Simnel, was obliged in 1488 to sue out pardon
and to take the oath of allegiance before Sir Richard
Edgecombe. In 1538, Philip Purcell was Abbot of
Holy-Cross, as was subsequently John Purcell Prior
of St. John's Abbey, Kilkenny, where his tomb of
black marble is yet to be seen.f In the reigns of
Elizabeth and James, Purcells were seised of many
castles and manors in Kilkenny. The only individual
of this name attainted in 1642, was William Purcell of
Irishtown, County of Kildare, clerk. Robert Purcell,
styled ' of Curry,' was one of the Supreme Council in
1646. When Limerick was taken by Ireton in
1651, Major-General Purcell was one of the garrison
excluded from mercy ;% and in the following year
Cromwell, by his Act 'for settling Ireland,' further
excepted this Major-General from pardon for life and
estate. During the time of the Commonwealth, an
Inquisition was directed and a survey made of the
parish of Crumlin, County of Dublin, by Royal Com-
mission, and a map was drawn (which is in the
possession of Ignatius Francis Purcell, the present

* Arohdall'sMon. Hib., p. 704. f Ware's Bishops, p. 459.
+ Leland's Ireland, v. 3, p. 402.

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proprietor) by which it is shown that the Purcells
were then, as they had been for a long time previously,

the owners of nearly the whole parish. By the

Act of Settlement (1663), Theobald Purcell was con-
firmed in his estate, as was also Philip Purcell of
Ballyfoyle, County of Kilkenny ;, while the Declaration
of Royal gratitude therein, 4 for services beyond the
seas,' especially named James Purcell of Knockmoe,
[Loughmow] County of Tipperary. He ranked in
1670 as the titular Baron of that ancient place, and
was grand-nephew of the first Duke of Ormonde. Of
this very ancient line a full pedigree is given in
a genealogical manuscript in T.C.D. (F. iv. 18).

On the present Army List, besides the Colonel and
six other Purcells in this Regiment, a James Purcell
was Lieutenant in Lord Clare's Dragoons, Edmund
Purcell in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry, Owen in
Colonel Edward Butler's, and Peter in the King's Own.
In Sir Michael Creagh's, Richard Purcell was a Cap-
tain ; in Colonel Dudley Bagnalls, Nicholas Purcell
was an Ensign ; and in Lord Galmoy's Horse, James
Purcell was a Cornet (he was wounded at Derry) ;
while this latter was also the name of a Colonel of
Infantry in the service. A Robert Purcell stands on
the Establishment of 1687-8 for a pension of £253
per annum.

The above Colonel Nicholas was titular Baron of
Loughmow. In 1686, he was added to the King's
Privy Council of Ireland, and in 1689 was one of
the Representatives of the County of Tipperary in the

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Parliament of Dublin. That Parliament was yet sit-
ting when King James wrote to Lieutenant-General
Hamilton, then 4 at the camp of Deny,' that he had
ordered 'Purcell's Dragoons' to Belturbet ; and the
achievements of this Regiment, within four miles of
Enniskillen, are commended by another despatch from
the Duke of Berwick to the same Lieutenant-General.

Late on the fatal day of the battle of the Boyne,
King James, yet ignorant that his rival had passed
the river at Old Bridge, took the reserve, which con-
sisted of Colonel Purcell's Horse and Browne's Infan-
try, to where he found Lausun drawn up in battle
array, with intent to charge the enemy's right, which
stood on his front within cannon-shot ; while however
he was considering this movement, he received intima-
tion of the state of the field, and the attempt, which
James projected, was pronounced by Sarsfield and
Maxwell to be impracticable.* On Lord Tyrconnel's
subsequent departure to France, Colonel Nicholas Pur-
cell, who was a zealous adherent of Sarsfield, was of the
Deputation despatched by the Avar party to St. Ger-
mains, to solicit their King to remove Tyrconnel from
the government of this country, f On the passage,
according to 0'Conor,J "he and Colonel Henry Lut-
trel designed to throw overboard Brigadier Maxwell,
who was the accredited agent of the Duke of Berwick,
and who, as these 'conspirators' were aware, had

* O'Callaghan's Excidium Macarice, p. 352.
t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 422.
% (^Conor's Military Mem. p. 128.

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secret instructions to apprise the King that the
Duke's object in placing them on the mission was, that
his Majesty might have the facility of detaining
them in France, as in Ireland they were 'the fire-
brands of the army.'" Colonel Nicholas was afterwards
one of those who negotiated and signed, on behalf of
the Irish, the Treaty of Limerick. He was then
most active in his endeavours to dissuade his country-
men from taking service with foreign powers, and
rather to enlist in the English army. O'Conor
accordingly represents his Eegiment as one of those
that, with Clifford's, Luttrell's, Lord Iveagh's, Dillon's,
and 'Hussey's,' turned over to the new government.
"The recreants," says that writer, "were mustered
near the General's quarters, and regaled with bread,
cheese, brandy, tobacco, and a fortnight's subsistence,
to steel them against the reproaches of their country-
men, and drown any scruples of conscience or honour,

that might induce them to return to their colours.

Colonel Nicholas was, nevertheless, attainted in 1691,
with Ignatius and John Purcell of Crumlin, Robert
and James Purcell of Dublin, John of Connehy, County
of Kilkenny, Thomas of Clillenclin, Theobald of Clone,
(who was found seized of 1478 acres in the Barony

of Galmoy,) Purcell, son of John Purcell of

Lissinane, in the County of Kilkenny, Robert Fitz-
Theobald Purcell of the City of Kilkenny, Edward of
Cork, Nicholas of Loughbrickland, County of Down,
Tobias Purcell of Maynard, Queen's County, and
Philip Purcell of Fleskhugh, County of Galway. Of

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all these outlaws only Ignatius Pur cell obtained a par-
don from the Crown. At the Court of Claims,
Colonel Nicholas Purcell and Ellen his wife claimed
and were allowed her portion off Cork and Kerry
lands, forfeited by Lord Kenmare and Nicholas his
son.

It may be mentioned that in March, 1691, (accord-
ing to Story,*) Lieutenant-Colonel Toby Purcell, on
several occasions, in King William's service, killed one
hundred of the Kapparees in the County of Longford.
He subsequently, in June of that year, was appointed
Governor of Ballymore, with five companies of the
Eegiment of General Douglas, who had gone off to
Flanders.f In July following, he was one of three
hostages exchanged for three others of James's army,
pending the negotiations for the capitulation of
Galway.J After the war, he was appointed Go-
vernor of the fort of Duncannon, and on a repre-
sentation of his services theretofore, especially at
Newry, memorialed King William for a confirmation ot
certain lands in Tipperary to him. § Story relates
that a Major Purcell was killed at Aughrim; while,
according to another authority, || Baron Purcell of
Loughmow and his son were killed there.

The family above alluded to as of Crumlin, County of
Dublin, had removed thither from Munster at so early

* Impartial History, part 2, p. 60.
f Idem, p. 93. j Idem, p. 164.
§ Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., 247.
|| Rawdon Papers, p. 351.

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a period, that in the muniments of St. Patricks Cathe-
dral is recorded a petition of John Purcell, Esq., claim-
ing a right to be buried in the chancel of the Church of
Crumlin, as a privilege which his ancestors had en-
joyed time out of mind, and this his claim was so
proved and allowed. The privilege of burial in the
chancel was only conceded in early times to the
lord of the fee, which in Crumlin is still vested in
Ignatius Francis Purcell.

Many Purcells followed the fortunes of James the
Second to the Continent, and were distinguished in
the armies of France, Spain, and Portugal.

CAPTAIN JOHN EVERARD.

This name is considered of Danish origin; if so, it has
been very generally planted over England, especially
in the southern parts of that island, earlier than it
came into Ireland; where it is recorded that, in 1131,
Everard died Abbot of Mary's Abbey.* In 1356,
John ' Everhard ' was one of those influential pro-
prietors, within what was distinguished as the County
of the Cross of Tipperary, who then elected its Sheriff.
The persons who exercised this authority with him
were John ' Mauncell,' Knight ; Robert ' Wodlock,'
Simon Cantwell, James Warner, Thomas 4 Walleys,'
Thomas Taunt, John 4 Mauclerk,' William Sause,
Robert Burtuin, with fourteen others; and the person

* Rolls in Chancery.

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whom they elected to this office was Andrew Haket.
Laurence Everard was one of those who, in 1415,
fought at the battle of Agincourt, a place not gene-
erally known to be identified with the now peaceful
site of St. Outer's. In 1531, Sir Thomas Everard
was chosen Prior of the Religious House of St. John
the Baptist, at Dublin. A genealogical manuscript
in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iii. 27) contains a
sketch of the lineage of the Everards of Fethard, for
six generations, of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies.

In Sir JohnPerrot's Parliament of 1585, Redmond
Everard was one of the Representatives of the County
of Tipperary. In 1603, John Everard of Fethard
was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench in Ire-
land ; he was afterwards knighted, and had a grant
of various manors, castles, towns, and lands in the
Counties of Tipperary and Waterford.* In 1612, he
was elected Speaker of the House of Commons by the
recusant party, having resigned his Judgeship sooner
than take the oath of supremacy. This election was
however over- ruled, and Sir John Davis, the King's
Attorney-General, was substituted. Richard Ever-
ard of Everard's Castle, the second son of said Sir
John, was one of the Confederate Catholics in 1646 ;
and was in 1651 condemned to die, when Ireton
took Limerick.f His eldest son, Sir Redmond of
Fethard, Baronet, was by the Act of Settlement (1662)
restored to his principal seat and two thousand acres

* Koils in Chancery. | Iceland's Ireland, v. 3, p. 402.

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of land ; while the Declaration of Royal gratitude in
the same Act recognised his services beyond the seas.
He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Richard
Butler of Kilcash, County of Tipperary, a brother of
the whole blood to the Duke of Ormonde ; and by
her had issue two sons, Sir John his eldest, and James
Everard his second son, with four daughters. Sir
Redmond died in Dublin in February 1686, and was
buried in Trinity Church, Fethard ; as testified by a
Funeral Entry in Birmingham Tower avouched by
Sir John Everard, his eldest son. The will of Sir
Redmond is of record in the Rolls Office, Dublin.
Another funeral entry, in Birmingham Tower,
certifies the burial in St. Werburgh's church on the
7th June, 1661, of Nicholas Everard, son of John, son
of Nicholas, son of Sir John, son of Redmond ; and
that the first named Nicholas died, a bachelor, as at-
tested by Redmond Everard, his heir.

On this Army List, besides Captain John, appear
of the Everard family Lucas, a Captain in Lord
Slane's Infantry ; as was James in Colonel Thomas
Butlers ; while in Sir Michael Creagh's, Patrick
Everard was a Lieutenant and Andrew Everard an
Ensign. This Patrick represented Kells in King
James's Parliament, where Sir John, the Baronet, was
one of the members for the County of Tipperary.
This last individual was killed at the battle of Augh-
rim* and seems identical with the above Captain
John, of this Regiment. Another Everard, ranked

* Story's Impartial Hist, part 2, p. 138.

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Lieutenant-Colonel, and described as of Randalstown,
County of Meath, (but not on this List) was adjudged
within the benefit of the Articles of Limerick ; while
of those attainted were Matthew of Randalstown,
Patrick of Navan, Lucas of Fyanstown, and Thomas
of Oristown, all in the County of Meath ; with Sir
John of Fethard, and James of the County of Water-
ford.

In 1697, a part of the Meath estate of Patrick
Everard was granted to Arthur Padmore and Joshua
Dawson, as were in 1702 the Tipperary estates of Sir
John of Fethard, partly to Richard Burgh of Grove,
and partly to David Lowe of Knockelly in said
County ; and a portion of his Waterford estates to
James Roche, in consideration of his services at
Derry. In 1703, a further section of Patrick Eve-
rard's Meath property was purchased by Alderman
John Leigh of Drogheda, from the Commissioners of
the Forfeited Estates, and another by the Hollow
Swords ' Blades' Company. Estates of his in the
County of Roscommon were acquired on similar title
by Richard Lloyd of Cavetown ; and others, in the
County of Longford, by James Johnston of Little-
mount, County of Fermanagh. At Chichester

House, in 1700, Matthias Everard claimed, as son
and heir of Thomas Everard, an estate in fee in the
Meath forfeitures of the aforesaid Patrick ; while, on
the whole estate of Sir John Everard, Margaret Eve-
rard claimed and was allowed a portion, as were John
and Christopher Everard sundry interests. James

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Butler and Anstace his wife also claimed interests in
the said forfeitures of Sir John and in those of Pierse
Everard.

In 1733, Sir Eichard Everard, of the Fethard

lineage, died Governor of North Carolina. In

1750, under a decree in the cause of Dawson v. Eve-
rard, a considerable remnant of the Everard estates
was sold out of their possession.

LIEUTENANT JOHN KENNEDY.

The O'Kennedy s were, according to native chronicles,
of the Dalcassian race, and possessed for centuries the
district known in later years as the Barony of Upper
Ormond, County of Tipperary. The Four Masters
very faithfully record the succession of the chiefs of
this Sept to the days of Queen Elizabeth ; and the
venerable Annals of Tigernach relate the death of
Cathal O'Kennedy, 1 King of the Kinselaghs,' at so
early a period as 758. In 1159, say the former
historians, Gildas Kevin O'Kennedy, Prince of Or-
mond, died in pilgrimage at Killaloe ; as did Donal,
son of Teigue O'Kennedy, Lord of Ormond, in 1180.
In 1252, Donald O'Kennedy, Bishop of Killaloe, was
interred in the Dominican friary of Nenagh, which his
Sept had founded. In 1599, died O'Kennedy Fion,
namely, Anthony, son of Donogh Oge, son of Hugh,
son of Aulaffe ; and Giolla Dhu O'Kennedy was
named The O'Kennedy. Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight

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and Privy Councillor, had a large grant in 1605 of
various estates of this family, forfeited by their rebel-
lion in the Munster wars. Cromwell's Act of 1652
excepted from pardon for life and estate (inter alios)
John O'Kennedy of Dunally, County of Tipperary.
In the counter-action of Royal gratitude, the acknow-
ledgment of 1662, for services beyond the seas,
includes the names of Captain Philip and Lieu-
tenant Daniel Kennedy ; while in the same year Sir
Richard Kennedy of Mount Kennedy, Baronet, was
appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

In the List of proposed Sheriffs, submitted to the
Earl of Clarendon in 1685, the name of Sir Robert
Kennedy was given in for Wicklow, with the obser-
vation, " If to be judged by his intimates, extremely
whiggish." On which suggestion Lord Clarendon
comments, " An honest gentleman, descended from
loyal parents, who were in the Usurper's time sufferers
for their loyalty ; and himself an active Justice of the

Peace."* Besides Lieutenant John Kennedy, this

Army List presents Kennedy Mac Kennedy, a Quarter-
Master in Colonel Francis Carroll's Dragoons.

The Outlawries of 1691 include the names of
Michael Kennedy of Tureen, County of Westmeath,
John, Thomas and Darby Kennedy of Dublin ;
William Kennedy of Mount Kennedy, County of
Wicklow, popularly called 'Lord William Kennedy' ;
Edmund of Tintern, County of Wicklow ; Daniel of
Kilbrubrickley, County of Mayo ; William of Finns-

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, &c. vol. 1, p. 285.

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town, County of Dublin, (houses of his in the City
of Dublin, including Kennedy's-lane, were purchased
in 1703 by John Asgill from the Trustees of the for-
feited estates,) and Donogh O'Kennedy of the County
of Galway, on whose estate Morgan Kennedy claimed
a remainder in tail, but his petition was dismist.

In 1747, at the fight of Laufiield, near Maestricht,
Captain Bryan Kennedy of Bulkeley's Irish Brigade,
was killed; while in Dillon's, Lieutenant Charles
Kennedy was killed, and Captains John and Joseph
were wounded.*

COBNET THOMAS TRAVEB.

This surname does not again occur upon the List ;
nor at all upon the Outlawries of 1691 ; while those
of 1642 have the names of Kobert, Luke, and William
1 Travers' of Bally kea, County of Dublin, and Patrick
Travers, of the same place, Clerk. Sir John Travers,
who seems to have been of a family located at Bally-
kea aforesaid, died in 1561. In the confiscations of
1691, William Travers of the Bally kea line forfeited
120 acres in the parish of Lusk, County of Dublin.
It may be presumed that Cornet Thomas ' Traver '
was of his family.

* Gent. Mag., ad ann.} p. 377.

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CORNET THOMAS MEAGH.

Neither does this name again occur upon this List ;
but on the Attainders of 1642 appears John Meagh
of Loughurke, County of Cork. On the Establish-
ment of 1687-8 is an entry of £6 13s. 4d. rent,
charged as " payable to Patrick Meagh for the lands
of Castlelinny Park, whereon the fort near the har-
bour of Kinsale doth stand." In the Parliament

of 1689, Henry Meagh sat as one of the Representa-
tives of the Borough of Knocktopher. His name is
on the Outlawries of 1691, with that of David
Meagh of 1 Moyaller,' County of Cork.

In St. Mary's Church, Youghal, is a large altar
tomb to the memory of Peter ' Miagh,' who was
mayor of that ancient Borough in 1630, and died in
1633. 'The plinth,' says the Rev. Mr. Hayman, in
his interesting account of this Church, {History of
Youghal), 4 has a skeleton in a shroud rudely engraven
on its outer face. Above it rise Corinthian columns,
between which are armorial bearings. Two figures
of angels surmount these pillars, and on the summit is
a third, clad in loose drapery, the right pointing up-
ward and the left bearing a cross. This monument
was erected by his widow Phelisia Nagle.'

QUARTER-MASTER JAMES WALE.
In relation to this surname, John de Wale was in

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1348, advanced to the see of Ardfert, as was Stephen
de Wale to that of Limerick in 1360 ; the latter was
promoted to Meath in 1369. In 1475, James Wale
succeeded to the Bishoprick of Kildare, and in 1585,
David Wale was one of the Representatives of the
Borough of Fethard, Tipperaiy, in Sir John Perrot's
parliament. In 1618, Sampson Theobalds had a grant
from the Crown of the castle, town and lands of
Maginstown, County of Tipperaiy ; parcel of the
estates of Richard Wale attainted.* An Inquisition
post mortem, taken at Carlow, 14th of June, 1620,
supplies the links of descent of 'Wales' of that County
for three past generations ;f while the monuments
in the Cathedral of Kilkenny commemorate various

' Wales' of the vicinity in the seventeenth century.

The Attainders of 1642 present the names of James
Wale of Clonmulk, County of Carlow ; and those of
1696, include Philip Wale of Drogheda, merchant,
and Lucas Wale of Crehelp, County of Wicklow.
The name of Quarter-Master James Wale does not
appear amongst them, nor does that of Matthew
Wale, who was an Ensign in the Infantry Regiment
commanded by Fitz-James, the Grand Prior.

* Eot. Pat. 15, Jac. 1 in Cane. Hib.
t Inquis. in Cane. Hib.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

All the foregoing Regiments of Horse were engaged
at Aughrim, together with two Troops of Horse-
Guards (the Duke of Berwick's, and Lord Dover's ;)
and also a Troop of Horse-Grenadiers commanded by
Colonel Butler, and other Eegiments of Horse under
Lord Kilmallock, the Earl of Westmeath, and Lord
Merrion, respectively.

KING JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST.

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Regiments of Dragoons.

1. Lord Dongan's (now Earl of Limerick).

2. Sir Neill O'Neill's.

3. Lord Clare's.

4. Colonel Simon Luttrell's.

5. Colonel Robert Clifford's.

6. Colonel Francis Carroll's.

[7. Brigadier Thomas Maxwell's].

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REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

LORD DONGAN'S, NOW EARL OF LIMERICK.

Comets. Quarter- Masters,

Thomas Kelly. Phelim Fox.
Cormack 'Eggan.' Robert Quin.

Captains.

The Colonel.
Francis Carroll,
Lieut. -Colonel.

Conly Geoghegan,

Major.
William Archbold.
Cormuck O'Neill.
Oliver Plunkett.
Daniel O'Neill.
Charles Moore.
Lord Kingsland.
Richard Bellew.
John Mac Namara.
Piers Archbold.
Patrick Nugent.
James Carroll.

Lieutenants.
Thomas Cavenagb.
James Carroll.

Michael Archbold.
Arthur O'Neill.
Henry Talbot.

Patrick Nugent.
John Hurly.
William Talbot.
George Talbot.
James Archbold.
John Mapas.
William Carroll.

Garrett Fitzgerald.
James Geoghegan.
Walter Fitzgerald.

John Mappas.
Nicholas Darcy.
James Bellew.
Piers Butler.
Thomas Dongan.
Richard Archbold.
John Begg.

Francis Bowers.
Peter Dobbin.
Richard Netterville.

Richard Archbold.
Simon Brice.
James Wolverston.
William Nugent.

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COLONEL LORD DONGAN.

This surname appears to have been of native and Mi-
lesian origin ; or, if it came over from England, it was
very soon naturalized. In 1387, Dermot O'Dongan
was presented, by the Marquess of Dublin, to a bene-
fice within the Diocese of Limerick; and in 1392 the
King granted to Thomas 'O'Dongyn,' chaplain, and an
admitted 'Irishman,' the liberty of using the English
tongue and law ; and the native annalists speak of
the ancient Sept of O'Donnegan, who were extensive
proprietors in the half Barony of Orrery, County of
Cork*

In 1395, John Dongan, a Benedictine Monk, who
had been previously Bishop of Derry, was translated
to the See of Down ; Henry the Fourth constituted
him Seneschal of Ulster, and in 1405 joined him in a
Commission to effectuate a peace between Sir Donald
Mac Donald, Lord of the Isles, and his brother John
of the one part, and on the other the merchants of
Drogheda and Dublin, who had twice led harassing

forays into Scotland : this prelate died in 1412.f

After the Dissolution, William Dongan had a grant
of the beautiful Abbey of Ennis, with a mill, an eel
and salmon weir, and houses and gardens 1 in the vil-
lage.' In Queen Mary's Charter of Restitution to St.
Patrick's Cathedral (1555), John Dongan was named
the Prebendary of Howth. Another John Dongan,

* Annals of the Four Musters (Geraghty's), p. 17<>, »■
f Ware's Bishops, p. 201.

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who had been Second Bemembrancer of the Exche-
quer in the time of Henry the Eighth, was a propri-
etor in the City of Dublin, and in the Counties of
Carlow and Kildare. He died about 1594, as shown
by Inquisitions post mortem then taken. This was
the ancestor of the above Lord Dongan, and he
devised his estates to Walter Dongan, his eldest son
and heir, with remainders, in failure of his issue, to
William, Edward, and Thomas Dongan, his second,
third, and fourth sons, in tail male successively ; and,
on failure of all these lines, to Thomas Dongan, the
brother of said testator, John.* This Walter, styled
of Abbotstown, County of Dublin, brought four
archers on horseback to the general Hosting on the
hill of Tara in 1593, for the Barony of Navan. He
was created a Baronet by King James. In 1615 he
made a settlement of all his estates, and in the follow-
ing year passed patent for the manor of Kildrought
(Castletown), where he and his descendants thence-
forth resided ; with various lands, castles, mills, weirs,
and woods, also the manor of Sherlockstown, and
other possessions in the County of Kildare and
the County and City of Dublin.f He died in 1626,
leaving John Dongan, his son and heir, then aged
twenty- three and married. This Sir John Dongan,
on his father's death, took up his residence at Castle-
town, in the County of Kildare. He was a member
of the Irish Parliament of 1634. Of his family were
Thomas Dongan, junior, and Oliver Dongan, attainted

* Inq. post mortem, 18 Jac. I. j Patent Roll in Cane. Hib.

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in 1642, and described in their Outlawries as 'of
Castletown while his son, Walter, was one of the
Confederate Catholics assembled in four years after
at Kilkenny. In 1644, Thomas Dongan was ap-
pointed a Justice of the King's Bench, and subse-
quently (in 1651,) promoted to be a Baron of the

Exchequer. On the Eestoration, William Dongan,

who had been a Knight and Baronet, was created a
Viscount. He was married on the Continent, which
necessitated the Act styled in the Commons Journals,
"for the naturalization of Maria Euphemia ' Dungan,'
Walter 4 Dungan,' Esq. and Ursula 4 Dungan,' his
issue born beyond the seas ;" while he was advanced
to the Earldom of Limerick.

Of him the Earl of Clarendon wrote, in August,
1686, to the Earl of Rochester, " My Lord Limerick
was with me. I must needs say he is always very
civil to me, notwithstanding his relations. He makes
wonderful professions of obligations he had to my
father, and likewise to yourself. He tells me sad sto-
ries of the ill condition of his own fortune, how he
was forced to sell £400 per annum to pay the debts
which he contracted in the King's service, and that
he never had any thing since the King's Restoration ;
that the late King promised, and his present Majesty
said he would make that promise good, that he should
have a pension of £500 per annum, till £5,000 was
paid. This morning my Lord Dongan was with me,
and desired I would send the enclosed letter upon the

s 2

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same business."* On the 9th of October following,
the same Viceroy writes to Rochester again upon this
subject : — " Pray give me leave to put you in mind
of a letter, I some time since sent to you from Lord
Dongan ; I am called upon every day for an answer.
You cannot imagine (he adds with much naivete)
how impatient people here are who expect anything,
even those who think themselves the best bred."f In
a previous letter of this Clarendon to Rochester, in
April of the same year, after alluding to Lord Don-
gan as having gone over to England, he says, " His
going over makes a great discourse here, as in truth
most things do ; for some or other will comment upon
all that is done. Those officers of the army, who are
lately come out of England, say he is gone, upon his
uncle Lord Tyrconnell's direction, to kiss the King's
hand for a Troop of Horse, which they say he is to
have upon the changes, and truly that seems very
likely ; but others will have it that he has become a
statesman, and is gone upon some deep matters rela-
ting to the Catholic cause ; which suggestion comes
from those of that religion, and is grounded upon Dr.
Moore, a physician, being gone with him, who is a
man of great account among that party, and is looked
upon to be so subtle and designing a man, that he
would not go over purely on a compliment to that
young Lord, who is a very prattling and impertinent
youth, and forward enough, and is so looked upon

* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 566.
f Idem, v. 2, p. 24.

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here."* This Lord, the Colonel under consideration,
was named Walter, and he sat in King James's Par-
liament as one of the Representatives of Naas, while
his father was one of the Peers. On the tenth day of
that Session he was despatched by his King to Gene-
ral Hamilton before Deny, carrying the important
announcement, " I now send back to you this bearer,
Lord Dongan, to let you know what this day I have
been informed, by one who came from Chester on
Wednesday last, that Kirke was to sail with the first
fair wind from thence, with four Regiments of Foot,
to endeavour to relieve Deny. I have ordered a copy

of the information to be sent you I have sent

some Horse and Dragoons to reinforce Sarsfield at
Sligo, and have ordered Purcell's dragoons to Beltur-
bet. What else I have to say I refer to this bearer,
Lord Dongan."f

Lord Dongan's career was, however, short ; he fell
at the Boyne ; and, as the Duke of Berwick writes,
" Notwithstanding the Foot was broken, the right
wing of Horse and Dragoons marched, and charged
such of the Enemy's Horse and Foot as passed the
river ; but my Lord Dongan being slain at the first by
a great shot, his Dragoons could not be got to do any
thing, nor did Clare's do much better. Nevertheless,
the Horse did their duty with great bravery, and,
though they did not break the Enemy's Foot, it was
more by reason of the ground not being favourable

* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 343.
t Manuscripts T.C.D., (E 2, 19.)

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than for want of vigour ; for, after they had been
repulsed by the Foot, they rallied again, and charged
the Enemy's Horse, and beat them every charge."*
Lord Dongan's corpse was carried from the field to
the family mansion at Castletown, and there interred
in the parish church, whose unnoted ruins are still
traceable near Celbridge.

The Attainders of 1691 include Euphemia 'Dun-
gan,' alias Countess of Limerick, and William, Earl of
Limerick. His confiscations comprised the castle,
manor, and lands of Castletown-Kildr ought, and
other estates in the Counties of Dublin, Carlo w,
Meath, Kilkenny, Longford, Tipperary and Queen's
County, as found by eleven distinct Inquisitions.
They comprised nearly 30,000 acres, with several
houses in Dublin, and some impropriate rectories,
glebes, advowsons of vicarages and tithes ; all which
lands were given to De Ginkle, Earl of Athlone and
Baron of Aughrim, a grant confirmed by Act of Par-
liament so early as in 1693 ; while seven impropriate
rectories with the glebes in the County of Tipperary
were, in 1703, made over to the 'Trustees for the
augmentation of small livings and other ecclesiastical
uses ' ; as was that of Castletown-Kildrought in the
County of Kildare, in which parish he had lived. The
claims put forward in 1 7 00, as incumbrances affecting
these estates, and some of which were allowed, were
those of Euphemia Countess of Limerick for her
jointure, charged by settlements of 1684 ; under

* Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 399.

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which conveyance, Thomas, described as Earl of Lim-
erick, claimed an estate tail in the lands of Castle-
town, &c, &c. Grace Ryder, alias Dongan, widow,
also claimed a portion of £100 with interest as
charged on a house in Patrick-street, Dublin, by the
will of her father, John Dongan, dated 29tk Novem-
ber, 1665 ; while Owen Dongan sought a life estate
in lands at Grange-Clare in said County of Kildare.
Both these latter claims were however dismist on
non-prosecution. William, Earl of Limerick, fol-
lowed his King to France, where he died in 1698 ;
when a " Colonel Dongan took upon him the title,
and was said to have been introduced in that rank
and quality to kiss his Majesty's hands."*

On the fall of Lord Dongan, the command of this
Regiment was given to his relative Walter Nugent,
son of Francis Nugent of Dardistown, by the Lady
Bridget Dongan, sister to the Earl of Limerick.
Colonel Walter was however himself slain at Aughrim,
when the command was given to the Honorable Rich-
ard Bellew, second son of Lord Bellew, and a Captain
on this List.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL.

He became full Colonel of a distinct Regiment of
Dragoons, as hereafter shewn.

* Thorpe's Catal. p. 226. Of this Colonel Thomas and his
achievements abroad, see fully O'Callnghan's Brigades, p. 331, &c.

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MAJOE CONLY GEOGHEGAN.

This Sept claims descent from Fiachra, one of the
sons of Nial of the Nine Hostages, Monarch of Ire-
land in the Fifth Century. Their territory was
called Kinel-Fiacha, and is by O'Dugan described as
having extended over the whole tract now known as
the Barony of Moycashel, with parts of those of
Moyashell, Eathconrath and Fertnllagh in Westmeath ;
within which they erected and long maintained the
possession of various castles, the chief being at Castle-
town-Geoghegan near Kilbeggan, whose wide site is
marked npon the Ordnance Survey.

In 1328, William Geoghegan, chief of Kinel-Fiacha,
defeated Thomas le Botiller with the English army,
near Mullingar. According to the Four Masters, the
latter sustained a loss of 3,500 men, including " their
leader and some of the D'Altons." The victor died in
1332, and the same annalists record with singular
exactness his successors in the Captaincy for centuries
after. In 1450 they relate, after detailing various
acts of what might be called treasonable resistance on
the part of this Sept, that "the English of Meath and
the Duke of York, with the King's Standard, marched
to Mullingar ; and the son of Mac Geoghegan, with a
great force of cavalry in armour, marched on the same
day to Beal-atha-glass to meet the English, who came
to the resolution of making peace with them ; and
they forgave him all he had committed, on them, on
conditions of obtaining peace" Campion preserves a

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265

letter attributed to this Duke of York, written from
Dublin to the Earl of Shrewsbury, in which, alluding
to the power and hostility of Mac Geoghegan, he en-
treats " to have men of war in defence and safeguard
of this land, or my power cannot stretch to keep it in
the King's obeisance, and very nearly will compel me
to come into England, to live there upon my poor
' livelode ; ' for I had ' lever' be dead, than any incon-
venience should fall thereto in my default ; for it shall
never be chronicled nor remain in scripture by the
grace of God, that Ireland was lost by my negligence."
An annal of 1488, connected with this family, affords
perhaps the earliest notice of the use of artillery in
Ireland. "The Earl of Kildare," say the Four
Masters, "marched with a predatory force into Kinel-
Fiacha, where he demolished the Castle of Belerath
on the sons of Murtagh Mac Geoghegan, after having
conveyed some ''ordnance1 thither." Remains of this
castle also are existing.

In 1556, Robert Cowley, a busy subordinate of his
day, recommended that the Baron of Delvin and his
son should be " occupied " against Mac Geoghegan,
O'Mulloy, &c; and accordingly, in the following-
year, the Deputy, Lord Leonard Grey, undertook an
expedition against those Septs, " by the conduct and
guidance of the Lord of Delvin," and compelled them
to give hostages ; immediately after which, in accord-
ance with the heartless policy of the day, their co-
operation was engaged for the subjugation of the
O'Carrolls. Early in 1540. a " peace 11 had been con-

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eluded between the Lord Deputy and Ross Mae Geogh-
egan,tlien Chief Captain of his nation and of the country
of ' Kinaleigh by which the latter bound himself to
serve the Crown with four horsemen and twenty-
four footmen for a day and night, on notice, at any
time, and as often as the King's Deputy should please ;
and also to serve in every great hosting or journey
(especially against Brian O'Connor), with four horse-
men and twelve footmen during said journey, and at his
own proper costs and charges." In the June, how-
ever, of that year, information was forwarded to the
Privy Council of England, "that O'Neill and O'Don-
nell, with all the powers of the north part of Ireland,
O'Connor, O'Mulloy, Mac Geoghegan, all the Kellys,
with the most part of the powers of Connaught,
O'Brien with all his company, are all combined, and
have appointed to meet at the King's manor of Fore,
the 6th of July next coming ; they also bringing
with them five weeks' victuals. It is supposed and
thought that of truth their meaning is for no purpose
but only to allure the Lord Justice and Council with
the best of the English Pale to the said place, by the
Irishmen appointed, thinking by their great power to
take their advantage of the King's subjects, and so to
overrun all the English Pale at their own pleasure."
On the appearance, however, of Sir William Brereton,
with the forces of the Government, the Irish Confede-
rates scattered ; " whereupon," writes the Irish Council
to Henry VIIL, " we concluded to do some exploit, and
so entered into O'Connor's country, and there en-

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camped in sundry places, destroying his habitations,
'coins] and fortilaces, so long as our victuals endured,
which hath partly abated his ' surguedy 1 and pride,
albeit he reniaineth on his cankered malice and ran-
cour, and so do all his confederates, continuing their
traitorous conferences, expecting their time to execute
their purpose." At length, Mac Geoghegan, O'Mulloy,
&c., submitted themselves, "whose submission," say
the amiable Council to their generous monarch, " we
accepted for this season, both for the causes aforesaid,
and also to the intent we might have opportunity of
the other confederates of Irishmen, with separation of
their confederacy, that they should not remain upon
war and peace jointly, as they pretended to do ;
but to be upon your Grace's peace, with their services,
and shall make certain fines."

In 1567, was published a map, in which Kinel-
Fiacha is described as Mac Geoghegan' s country,
and as containing in length twelve, and in breadth
seven miles. " It lieth," says the abstract, " midway
between the fort of Faley (Philipstown) and Athlone,
five miles from either of them and also from Mullin-
gar, which lieth northward of it ; southward is O'Mul-
loy's country. On the south-east lieth Offaley, on
the east it joineth Tyrrel's country, and O'Meiaghlin's
on the west side, between it and Athlone, where a
corner of it joineth with the Dillon country." So
were the dynasties hereabout then demarcated. In
the Parliament of 1585, convened by Perrot, and
for the first time admitting Irish chiefs to the

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councils of their country's legislation, this Sept was
represented by Conla, son of Connor, son of Luigne
Mac Geoghegan. In the following year, when con-
fiscations were instituted as a resource for support-
ing the necessities of Government, Inquisitions were
taken as to the possessions of this family, the death
of whose tanist, the aforesaid Conla, in the same
year, is commemorated by the Four Masters, as that
" there was not, since the times of old, a man of the
race of Fiacha who was more lamented than he." At
the close of this century, the ' cruel' poet, Edmund
Spenser, in his " View of the State of Ireland," ear-
nestly recommended that, " for the safeguard of the
country, and keeping under all sudden upstarts that
shall seek to trouble the peace, garrisons should be
established at sundry places outside the Pale, and
particularly one " at the foot of Offaley, to curb the
O'Connors, O'Mulloys, MacCoghlans, MacGeoghegans,
and all those Irish natives bordering thereabouts."

In the year 1600, the memorable Irish hero, Hugh
O'Neill, in his progress southward, under pretext of a
pilgrimage to Holycross, but really to organize for the
reception of the expected Spanish invasion of Mun-
ster, after passing through the barony of Delvin,
" marched thence to the gates of Athlone, and along
the southern side of Clan-Colman, and Kinel-Fiacha
(MacGeoghegan's) and into Fearcall (O'Mulloy's,)
where he encamped for nine nights," confirming
friendships with the surrounding chiefs. When, soon
after, the war of Munster broke out, Captain Richard

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Mac Geoghegan, ua chief of Westmeath," was, for his
distinguished valour, entrusted by 0' Sullivan with the
custody and care of the castle of Dunboy, which he
gallantly defended until mortally wounded. He was
carried down into the vaults in a dying state, where,
learning that it was the intention of the garrison un-
der their necessity to surrender, he made a feeble
effort to stagger over to a barrel of gunpowder there
deposited, with a resolution, by setting fire to it, to
blow up the English then in the castle, even with a
sacrifice of his own friends ; but the former, rushing
down at the crisis, arrested his arm and stabbed him
to death."

In the confiscations consequent upon the insurrec-
tion of 1641, Rosse, Laurence, and Dermott Mac
Geoghegan were forfeiting proprietors within the
County of Kildare, as was Thomas in the County of
Meath ; while, in the old territory of Kinaleigh,
Arthur Mac Geoghegan lost all that then remained of
his ancestors' immemorial inheritance there — little
more, at that time, than 1,500 acres, (including
Castletown-Mac Geoghegan). His wife, one of the no-
ble Sept of Mac Coghlan, having given protection to
some of Cromwell's soldiers, received from the usurp-
ing powers a transplantation grant in the County of
Gal way, of Bennowen, part of the OTlaherty's terri-
tory ; and through her second son, Edward, a junior
branch of the Mac Geoghegans has been continued
to the present day in Connaught ; though in its two
last generations this line has adopted the surname of

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O'Neill, as sounding more of Milesian royalty. Nine
hundred acres of Arthur's forfeiture in Kinaleigh
haying been claimed by EdAvard Mac Geoghegan, as
a remainder under settlements, were allowed to
him, and a portion of the residue was granted to
Sir William Petty (ancestor of the Marquis of Lans-
downe), the great compiler of the Down Survey. This
Edward obtained further savings of his rights in other
lands within the County of Westmeath, on decrees
of innocence, but died without issue. In the Assem-
bly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1647,
sat, amongst the Spiritual Peers, Doctor Anthony
Mac Geoghegan ; while of the Commons were Conly
and Charles Mac Geoghegan of Donore, Edward Mac
Geoghegan of Tyroterin, and Richard Mac Geogh-
egan of Moycashell, all within the old inheritance of
Kinel-Fiacha, The first named, Conly Mac Geogh-
egan, was one of the seven sons of Hugh Buy Mac
Geoghegan, by Ellen, daughter of Walter Tyrrell of
Clonmoyle, County of Westmeath, and is especially
included in the declaration of Royal gratitude of the
Act of Settlement, which further restored him to his
principal seat of Donore, and 2,000 acres of land. The
adjacent Borough of Kilbeggan was, in King James's
Parliament of 1689, represented by Bryan Geoghegan
of Donore, and Charles Geoghegan of Syonan.

On this Army List, besides the above Major Conly
and Cornet James of the present Regiment, Charles
and Conn Geoghegan were Captains in Colonel Simon
Luttrell's Dragoons ; another Charles was a Lieutenant

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in that of Colonel Francis Carroll ; Anthony Geoghegan
was a Captain in Colonel John Hamilton's Infantry,
and Garret Geoghegan was appointed Major of Colo-
nel Edward Butler's, after the forming of this List.
When Lord Dongan was killed, and the Lieutenant-
Colonel Francis Carroll had obtained a separate
Eegiment of Dragoons, it would seem that Major
Conly Geoghegan succeeded to the Colonelcy of this,
hence then styled 'Geoghegan's Eegiment,' "and from
which," says O'Conor, " many soldiers were after-
wards brought over to William's party, uby the influ-
ence of officers, who sought favour from the govern-
ment by corrupting their soldiers."* Previous to this
dereliction, however, when, in May, 1691, Captain
Underhill, at the head of a Williamite party, engaged

an Irish detachment, and killed their Captain,

Geoghegan, he was "the next day set upon by another
party of the Irish, commanded by Colonel Geoghegan,
and was obliged to make his retreat. "f

The Inquisitions of 1691 contain the Outlawries of
Peter Mac Thomas Geoghegan, and William and Mori-
ertagh Mac Peter Geoghegan of Newtown, County of
Westmeath ; Hugh Ban Geoghegan of Carrymare,
Do. ; Hugo Mac Kedagh Geoghegan of Loughar-
laghnonght, Edward his son, Hugh Fitz-Conly Buy
Geoghegan of Laragh; Bryan Geoghegan of Donore;
Charles, Con, James and Anthony Geoghegan of
Syonan, all in Westmeath ; Bryan Geoghegan of
Ballyduffe, and Eugene of Ballyhecnock, in the

* O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 190.
| Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 79.

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King's County, with James Geoghegan of Granard,
County of Longford. Of these,. Bryan of Donore,
styled Colonel Bryan, was adjudged within the Arti-
cles of Limerick ; while in 1700 the warrant issued
for a pardon to Edward Geoghegan of Castletown for
the reasons, as stated in his petition, "that he had never
borne any employment civil or military under the
late King James ; but, after the battle of the Boyne,
put himself under King William's protection at his
own house, until he was fallen upon by a party of
Captain Point z's soldiers, by whom he was shot
through the body, stripped of all his substance, and
both himself and his family most inhumanly and bar-
barously used : by which means he was forced
into the enemy's quarters for security of his life, and
that on this account only was he outlawed. That on
the capitulation of Limerick he came to Dublin, and
was put in possession of his estate according to the
Articles ; and that he had always showed great kind-
ness to his Protestant neighbours." He therefore
prayed a reversal of his Outlawry and a pardon ; and
the Privy Council, on the Attorney-General's Report,
having certified in his favour, and the executors of
Colonel Wolsely, deceased, (who in his lifetime had op-
posed said Edward's prayer,) offering no opposition,

his full pardon was ordered to be made out.*

The claims preferred against the Geoghegan confisca-
tions in 1700 were, — Matthew Geoghegan for a charge
affecting Westmeath lands of said Edward Geoghegan

* Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 304.

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ill the Barony of Rathconrath, allowed. Mary

Geoghegan for her jointure off same, also allowed.
Edward, Thomas and James Geoghegan, the sons of
said Edward, claimed estates tail therein respectively

under marriage articles of 1684, disallowed. While

Anne, the widow of Conly Geoghegan, sought a small
jointure and arrears as charges on the King's County
estate of Charles Geoghegan ; and Mary, his widow,
sought her jointure to the like amount : both which
claims were allowed.

In 1728, Arthur Geoghegan married Susanna,
daughter of William Stafford of Blatherwick, and
widow of Henry O'Brien of the Inchiquin line,
whereupon said Arthur assumed the name of Staf-
ford, and has transmitted it to his descendants.

In 1745, Sir Thomas Geoghegan of Toulouse,
an Officer in L ally's Eegiment, was taken prisoner
at Carlisle, but, pleading that he was a French
subject, he was released.* In two years after, he was
killed at the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht ;f
while Alexander Geoghegan, having been taken at the
memorable battle of Culloden, executed with many
others an article herein elsewhere, more fully alluded
to, engaging themselves on parole not to pass out of
Inverness without the licence of the Duke of Cum-
berland. Subsequently, the Abbe Jaques Mac

Geoghegan, residing in France, published in 1758
a very interesting History of Ireland in the French
language.

* Gent. Mag., vol. 16, p. 24. t Idem, vol. 18, p. 377

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CAPTAIN WILLIAM ARCHBOLD.

This name, of Danish origin, is traceable in Ireland
from the earliest period of existing records ; more
especially in the annals of Wicklow. Henry the
Fourth, in the first year of his reign, constituted
William Archbold Constable of the important Castle
of Mackinnegan within that territory, with a salary
of 100 marks in times of peace, and of £80 during
war ; for the due performance of which trust, four of
his sept and vicinage became sureties to the Crown.*
Another William Archbold had been a few years
previously appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer,
while, in ecclesiastical rank, Richard Archbold was in
1491 elected Prior of the noble mitred House of
Kilmainham.

In 1610, the King's letter issued for receiving a
surrender from Patrick Archbold of Kendlestown,
County of "Wicklow, with the state policy of re-grant-
ing his estates to him on payment of a fine, and on
holding same thenceforth by Knight's service. f A
very long letter of the 31st March, 1628, from King-
Charles the First to Viscount Falkland, then Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, directs a Commission of In-
quiry to be held respecting all the manors, castles,
estates, &c. of which the aforesaid Patrick Archbold
died seised in Wicklow and Dublin Counties ; with
authority and instructions for conveying them to the

Rot. Pat. 1 Hen. IV.

t Patent Roll in Cane. Hib.

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Earl of Meath in fee, together with Letters Patent for
markets, fairs, tan-pits, a Court Baron and Court
Leet, in Great and Little Bree. This letter was
afterwards recalled for a substituted grant of said pre-
mises to George Kirke, Esq., Groom of the Bedcham-
ber ; with specific directions that the Earl should not
make use of the preceding Letter.

The Attainders of 1642 exhibit Inquisitions on
Christopher and William Archbold of Timolin, Rich-
ard of Flemingstown, and James of Crookstown, all in
the County of Kilclare. William, Roland, and Ed-
mund Archbold of Cloghran-Swords, County of Dub-
lin ; Robert, James, and Henry Archbold of Tuck-
myne, County of Wicklow ; Christopher of Skidow,
and Nicholas of Carrowkeel, County of Dublin ; Theo-
bald of Eathbran, Edward of Stagonell, Thomas of
Wicklow, George of Glancormuck, Edward and Owen
Archbold of Kilmurry, Gerald of Brea and James of
Bally kea, all in the County of Wicklow.

On this Army List, besides the six officers of the
present Regiment, Christopher Archbold was an En-
sign in the King's Own Foot, and Bernard Archbold a
Lieutenant in Sir Michael Creagh's. An Ensign
Archbold was, at the commencement of the campaign,
taken prisoner at Derry.

In the Parliament of 1689, William Archbold, the
Captain in this Regiment, was one of the Represen-
tatives of the Borough of Athy. During the siege of
Limerick, in August, 1691, the fine Castle of Carrig-
Ogunnel near that City, " whose garrison was one

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hundred and thirty men with two Captains, com-
manded by one Archbold, surrendered upon mercy,
and the Prisoners were immediately put into the
provost's custody." The Attainders of 1691 in-
clude Nicholas, John, and Francis Archbold of
Ballymalee, County of Westmeath ; Simon of Dublin,
Pierce of Carysfort, County of Wicklow ; the above
Captain, by the description of Captain William of
Athy, County of Kildare ; James of Brumgust,
County of Carlo w ; William of Kilkenny, merchant ;
with Walter, Pierce, Thomas, and Richard Archbold
of Cullen, County of Kildare. The latter, styled
Captain Richard, seems identical with either of the
Richards in this Regiment, and was held to be within
the Articles of Limerick. At the Court of Claims,
Robert Archbold sought an estate tail in the County
Kildare lands, forfeited by Captain William his father,
to whom they had been on a former occasion assured
by a Decree of Innocence. — A James Archbold sought
and was allowed a chattel leasehold in Kilmacudd,
County of Dublin, the private estate (i. e. of the
Duke of York); while a John Archbold claimed,
under a deed of 1671, an estate for lives in lands in
the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, forfeited by the
Earl of Tyrconnel, but his petition was disallowed.

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CAPTAIN LORD KINGSLAND.

The family of Barnewall has been heretofore noticed
under Lord Trimleston, who was a Captain in Lord
Galmoy's Eegiment of Horse.

John Barnewall, ancestor of this nobleman in the
direct line, was Sheriff of Meath in 1433. After the
rout of the Boynethis Lord went to Limerick, where
he continued until its surrender. Pending the Treaty,
he was one of the hostages for the performance
thereof on the part of the Irish army.* Being com-
prised within the Articles, he obtained a reversal of
his Outlawry, but was not suffered to take his seat in
the House of Peers ; and, on his refusing to subscribe
the required Declaration, he was ordered to withdraw ;
he and his brother thereupon followed the fortunes of
the banished James. The former had a Commission
under the Duke of Berwick, and fell in action against
the Germans in 1692 ; whereupon his brother,
returning from Flanders to Ireland, recovered the
family estates and was summoned to Parliament, but
he too declined the honor with the oaths. He was at-
tainted by three Inquisitions, one taken in the
County of Dublin, another in the City, and a third in
the County of Meath. His son Joseph was also at-
tainted.

* D' Alton's History of the Co. Dublin, p. 310.

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CAPTAIN RICHARD BELLEW.

The name of Bellew will be fully treated of at Lord
Belle w's Infantry Regiment. Of this officer it may
be here said that he was the second son of that Lord,
and early distinguished himself in supporting King
James's cause. When Walter Nugent, who succeeded
Lord Dongan in the command of this Regiment, fell
at Aughrim, as before related, Richard Bellew,
although then only twenty years of age, was appointed
to succeed him ; and, on the termination of the war,
he brought his forces with him to France, where they
ranked as the 'King of England's Dismounted Dra-
goons.' There however he took umbrage, as Brigadier
Thomas Maxwell was placed over his head, which he
thought an unmerited slight. Returning to Ireland in
1694, on the decease of his elder brother Walter, the
second Lord Bellew, he became the third Baron ; and,
marrying a daughter of Lord Brudenell with a large
fortune, conformed to the Established Church in 1705,
sat in the House of Peers in 1707, and died in 1714,
leaving John, the fourth Lord Bellew, his successor ;
at whose death at Lisle, in 1770, this title became
extinct.*

CAPTAIN JAMES CARROLL.
The Sept of O'Carroll was early established in Louth,

* O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 156.

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being there popularly styled Princes of Orgiel. Pre-
vious to the English invasion, immediately after the
great Synod of Mellefont in 1152, the Four Masters
record the expulsion of their Chief from that country,
of which he had been the acknowledged Lord, from
Drogheda to Asigh in the County of Meath. These
annalists however notice O'Carrols as Chiefs of Orgiel
down to the year 1193 ; and it is especially recorded
that when, in 1166, on the eve of Strongbow's in-
vasion of Ireland, Roderic O'Conor, then King of this
country, seeking to ascertain the feelings of allegiance
towards himself, encamped with an army hereabout,
Donogh O'Carroll with the other chiefs of Louth came
into his tent, delivered hostages for their fealty, and
received in return, as related in the ' Annals of Inis-
fallen,' a present of two hundred and forty beeves.
O'Carrolls were, at that time and previously, also
settled in a territory of Tipperary, from them called
Ely-O' Carroll ; the Masters record the death of Am-
ergin O'Carroll, Lord of Ely, in 1033. This inhe-
ritance comprised the present Barony of Lower Or-
mond, with that of Clonlisk and part of Ballybritt in
the King's County, and to the Slieve Bloom Moun-
tains in the Queen's. Their chief castle was at Birr.
The name was also one of power and possession in
the Counties of Cavan and Leitrim.

In 1168 died O'Carroll, Bishop of Ross, in

the County of Cork. In 1171, Morrough O'Carroll,
Lord of Orgiel, joined Roderick O'Conor, the las1
native King of Ireland, in the ineffective siege of

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Dublin, then occupied by Dermott Mac Murrough
and the English invaders. In 1178, he made a gal-
lant and successful attack upon De Courcy ; and dying
in 1189, was interred in the noble Abbey which he
had founded for Cistercians at Mellefont. In 1184,
Maolisa O'Carroll was Primate of Armagh, and in
1327, John O'Carroll succeeded to the Archbishopric
of Cashel ; as did Thomas O'Carroll to that of Tuam
in 1349. In 1532, the Four Masters commemorate
the death of Maolruana O'Carrol, the distinguished
Chief of Munster, ' the golden pillar of the Elyans.'
His son, Ferganainim O'Carrol, being the tanist of
Ely, surrendered its possessions to Edward the Sixth,
who restored it to him on English tenure, with the
addition of the dignity of Baron of Ely for his life.
Perrot's Parliament of 1585 was attended, amongst
other Irish Chiefs, by 'O'Carroll of Ely,' whom the same
Annalists describe as "Calvach, son of William
Odher, son of Ferganainim, son of Maolruana, son of
John." In 1605, Sir Henry Broncar, Knight, Presi-
dent of Munster, had a grant of (inter alia) a castle
and lands in the County of Tipper ary, parcel of the
estate of Teigue O'Carroll attainted.

A funeral entry of 1630, in the Office of Arms,
Dublin, records the death, on 15th August in this
year, of William O'Carroll ofCouloge, King's County,
(son and heir of Donough ni Kelly O'Carroll, son and
heir of Ony, son and heir of Donogh Ballagh O'Carroll
of same place,) where said William died and was
interred. He had married Honora, daughter of John

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Meagher of Game, County of Tipperary ; by whom he
had six sons, 1, Donogh, who married Katherine,
daughter of Walter Bourke of Borrisoleigh, County of
Tipperary ; 2, Keadagh, who married Amy, daughter
of Eoger OTlaherty of Lomelonny, King's County ;

3, John, who married Joanna, daughter of William
O'Carroll of Moderenny, County of Tipperary ;

4, Teigue, married to Grany, daughter of Ony O'Car-
roll of Ely-O'Carroll ; 5, Charles, as yet unmarried ;
and 6, Ony, also unmarried. About the time of the
above entry, a Donogh O'Carroll, according to an an-
cient manuscript fonvarded in aid of this work, mar-
ried the daughter of O'Kennedy by Margaret

O'Bryan Arra, which Margaret was the daughter of
O'Carroll Ely. By her he is said to have had thirty
sons, all of whom he presented, in one troop of Horse,
and accoutred in habiliments of war, to the Earl of
Ormonde, with proffers of all his and their assistance
in the Koyal cause. Most of these sons, it is added,
died in foreign lands, having followed the wanderings
of the Stuarts. One, Daniel, remaining in Ireland,
was father of John, who at the tender age of five
years was transplanted into Connaught by Cromwell.
He married Margaret, daughter of O'Connor, Sligo,
(by Margaret, daughter of Lord Athenry,) and from
that union sprang Sir Daniel O'Carroll, who, some
short time previous to this campaign, was created by
the King of Spain a Knight of the military order of
St. J ago, 'for singular services done for that Monarch
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and, entering into Queen Anne's army, was made
Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, and knighted. He
married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas
Jervis of the ' County of Southampton,' by his first
wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Gilbert Clark of Chy-
liothe in Derbyshire.

To return to the line and locality of Ely. Amongst
the active measures concerted by James the First for
reducing Ireland, a Commission was appointed " for
ascertaining the bounds and limits of O'Carroll's
Country, commonly called Ely O'Carroll." In the
grants that ensued on its plantation, the chief portion,
including Birr and its appanages, was assigned to
Laurence, brother of Sir William Parsons, the Sur-
veyor-General ; and, on the breaking out of the war of
1641, William Parsons was made Governor of Ely-

O'Carroll. Of this Sept and district of O'Carroll

was the above Captain James Carroll, whose commis-
sion to the Captaincy bears date on the 30th of July,
1689, thereby suggesting that the present Army List
was drawn up subsequent thereto ; for previously
James Carroll was but a Cornet in this Eegiment, as
of the troop of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Carroll, by
Commission of the 10th November, 1688, from Tyr-
connel. That of 1689 was signed by the King at the
Castle of Dublin, and countersigned by Lord Melfort ;
but, in the confusion of the time, not entered in the
Office of the Muster-Master-General until the 22nd of
November following. Accordingly, on this List that

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especial Cornetcy is stated as filled by Cormack
'Eggan ' [Egan].

Besides this Captain James Carroll, another James,
and William Carroll, Lieutenants in this Kegiment,
there appear on the Army List, in Lord Galmoy's In-
fantry, John Carroll a Captain, William Carroll
a Lieutenant, and Daniel and Laurence Carroll,

Ensigns. In the Earl of Westmeath's Foot,

Patrick Carroll an Ensign, as was Nicholas Carroll

in Sir Michael Creagh's. In Colonel He ward

Oxburgh's, Anthony Carroll a Captain, a second
Anthony his Lieutenant, and a James Carroll an En-
sign. In Lord G-almoy's Horse, Charles Carroll

was appointed (after the date of this List) second
Lieutenant-Colonel ; while Francis Carroll, a Lieute-
nant-Colonel here, had afterwards the command of a
Eegiment of Dragoons, and to him, in conformity
with the proposed arrangement of these Illustrations,
that of the O'Carrolls should in strictness be referred ;
but the aid of Manuscripts which Mr. Davis Carroll
Dempster volunteered for this work, with a very an-
cient pedigree which establishes his maternal descent
from this Captain James, who was himself descended
from the O'Carroll of Ely, well justifies anticipating

the O'Carroll notices here. One of the Carrolls

named Anthony, who are mentioned above as in
Colonel Oxburgh's Infantry, appears to have been the
active popular leader, ' Long Anthony Carroll,' who,
according to Story, (Impartial History, Part II. p.
69) contrived an ambuscade, by which, in April,

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1691, a Captain Palliser, Lieutenant Armstrong, and
a party of sixty firelocks, were taken prisoners near
Birr. " Lieutenant Armstrong paid money to be
released ; Captain Palliser made his escape in the
beginning of June from Limerick, but the poor men
were kept prisoners till the surrender of that City."*
On the 29th October, 1691, the Officer at present
under consideration, being then 1 Major ' James
Carroll, had a pass from King William's Commander-
in-Chief, as one " entitled to the benefit of the
Capitulation, and desirous of returning home to his
habitation in the County of Tipper ary ; " and all
Officers, civil and military, were thereby directed " to
permit the said James, with his family and ser-
vants, horses, swords, pistols, and goods whatsoever,
to pass freely from the City of ' Lymerick ' to his habi-
tation aforesaid, to look after his concerns, and into
all such parts of the Kingdom where his lawful occa-
sions will require, without giving him any trouble or
hindrance."

Of the early brigaded French Regiment styled
4 the King's Regiment of Dismounted Dragoons,'
Turenne O'Carroll was Lieutenant-Colonel, and was
killed at the battle of Marsiglia in 1693 ;f while at
the battle of the Bridge of the Retorto, in 1705,
Colonel O'Carroll of Galmoy's Brigade signally distin-
guished himself. In 1743, Cornet O'Carroll was

wounded at Dettingen, as was Lieutenant Carroll of

* Story's Impart. Hist, part 2, p. 69.

j O'Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 198, 221.

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Berwick's Begiment at Ypres in 1745 ; and in two
years after, Major Carroll, also of Berwick's (possibly
the same who was wounded in 1745) supported the
credit of his name in the engagement at Laufheld
village near Maestricht, as did not less in his station
Lieutenant Carroll of Dillon's Brigade.

A commission from King Louis, dated at Ver-
sailles, 5th September, 1756, appointing Matthias
Carroll to an Ensigncy in Berwick's Brigade, vacant
by the promotion of William Cruise to a Lieutenancy,
is amongst the family papers of Mr. D. Carroll
Dempster, and suggests that he was of Mr. Demp-
ster's kindred. This family also claim affinity with
Charles Carroll of Carrolton, who signed the memo-
rable Declaration of American Independence, and who,
as far as present materials suggest, was the uncle of
John, the grandfather of Mr. Carroll Dempster.

LIEUTENANT JOHN HUELY.

According to the evidence of the ancient annals, the
Books of Leacan and Ballymote, &c. the O'Hurley,
O'Hierlehy, or Hurly was a Dalcassian Sept derived
from the same stock as that of the O'Briens of
Thomond ; each springing from a lineal descendant
of Cormac Cas, son of Oiliol Ollum, who was King of
Munster in the third century. Their territory ex-
tended on the borders of Tipperary adjoining the
Limerick district of the O'Briens, and was latterly

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known by the name of Knocklong in the Barony of
Coshlea, County of Limerick. Within it was a
Castle, for centuries the residence of the Chief. Its
ruins still remain, and from it branched off others of
this Sept in the Counties of Cork and Kerry.

It is true that the surname Hurle or Hurley, with
the Norman prefix of 4 de,' is found at an early period
in English local records, even from the time of
Edward the First, but a paramount authority of the
Irish Annalists shows the long previous existence of
the Milesian O'Hurly.

In reference to an era more within the scope of
these illustrations, Thomas Urley, alias Ourhilly,
Bachelor of Canon Law, afterwards Bishop of Emly,
being a recognised native Irishman, sued out in 1502
a licence entitling him to use the English tongue and
law.* In a venerable pedigree, of forty-one unbroken
generations, preserved by the present representative
of the family of Knocklong, occurs the name of Der-
mod, son of Teigue O'Hurly, described as the Chief
' living at the Oakwoods,' about the middle of the six-
teenth century. His daughter Juliana, according to
Lodge,f was married to Edmund Oge de Courcy, by
whom she was mother of John the eighteenth Baron
of Kinsale ; whose only daughter Ellen de Courcy
became the wife of Randal Hurley of Ballinacarrig ;
while his son, Eandal Hurley the younger, married
the widow of Gerald the nineteenth Lord of Kinsale.J

* Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib.

f Peerage, vol. 6, p. 151. % Idem, p. 154.

dongan's dragoons. 287

The ensuing annals of this family afford strong evi-
dence of the loose spirit in which, after the secession
from Eome, the dignities of the Established Church were
filled in Ireland. In 1543, King Henry presented
Donogh Eyan, chaplain, to the Deanery of the Cathe-
dral of Emly, "vacant, inasmuch as William Mc Bryen
and William O'Hurly, the present incumbents, hold
the same by the authority of the Bishop of Eome." In
1609, King James presented Edmund Hurly, 4 not-
withstanding his minority and defect of clerical
orders,' to the Chancellorship of that Cathedral, with
a corps of vicarages united ; and in the same year his
Majesty presented Eandal Hurley, under similar dis-
qualifications, to the Chantorship thereof.*

In 1563, Thomas O'Herlihey, being Bishop of Eoss,
(it would seem on the Pope's appointment) assisted at
the Council of Trent. He died in 1579, and was in-
terred in the Abbey of Kilcrea. In 1583, Dermott
O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel, suffered martyrdom
in Dublin ; and was buried in St. Kevin's Church,
where his tomb became celebrated, says De Burgo,f
for miracles.

In the Conciliation Parliament, convened two
years afterwards by Sir John Perrot, Thomas Hur-
ley of Knocklong represented the Borough of Kilmal-
lock. He was father of Maurice of Knocklong, who,
in 1601, "for his dutiful affection and good dispo-
sition towards her Majesty's service in Munster, and

* Patent Eolls, Jac. I.

t Hibernia Dominicana, p. 601.

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considering that for the good of the country and
daily annoyance of the rebels he hath been at such
great charge of 1 wardening' the Castle of 4 Knock-
longy' during the rebellion in Munster," obtained a
patent for a weekly market and fair twice a year at
that locality. It was also ordered in the patent that
certain lands of said Maurice, which he alleged were
of ancient freedom, should, if proved on inquiry to be
so, be thenceforth exempted from cesses and exac-
tions ; and Knocklong was proved to be, with other
lands, within the privilege. In 1632, this Maurice
erected in the Cathedral of Emly a fine marble
monument to the memory of his two wives, whom he
had survived. His will, dated in 1634, is registered
in the Prerogative Court. By his first wife, Crania
Hogan, he left two sons, Sir Thomas, his successor,
and John Hurly. The former married Johanna,
daughter of John Browne of Camus, by Catherine,
daughter of Dermot O'Ryan of Solloghode, County of
Tipperary ; by whom he had Sir Maurice, mentioned
hereafter, and another John, with four daughters :
1st, Catherine, married to Pierce, Lord Dunboyne ;
2nd, Anne, to Daniel OTiyan of Solloghode; 3rd,
Grace, to Walter Bourke ; and 4th, Eleanor, to David
Barry of Kahinisky, father of Edmund Barry, Queen
Anne's foster-father. In 1638, James O'Hurly was
constituted Bishop of Emly.

The Outlawries in 1642 present the names of Ran-
dle Hurley and Randle Hurley Oge of Ballynacarrig,
William Hurly of Ballenlearde and Lisgulby, County

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of Cork ; Donough McDaniel Hurley of Bunnamun-
ney, Ellen Hurley of Gellagh-Iteragh, Donnell Oge
Hurly of Kilbrittain, James Hurly of Ballenbride,
Thomas O'Hurlehy, Donogli O'Hurlehy of Monita-
ginta and John O'Hurlehy of Ballyberny, all in the
County of Cork.

Sir Maurice Hurly, the grandson of Maurice the
testator of 1634, was one of the Confederate Catho-
lics at the Council of Kilkenny in 1647. He for-
feited largely by his adherence to Charles the First,
and his estates in the Counties of Limerick and
Tipperary were seized for Cromwell's adventurers ;
while he was himself transplanted into Connaught,
where he died in 1683, leaving Sir William, his
eldest son, hereafter alluded to. In his will of that
year, Sir Maurice, with ' a sweet remembrance of his
ancient inheritance,' directs, in regard to " the lands
that I have been dispossessed of, and to which I have
a just title, and now is defending in law, after the
recovery thereof, I leave and bequeath the same unto
my sons William and John Hurly, to be equally
divided, between them for ever ; together with the
'maine' profits thereof:" and in a codicil he further
leaves to his said son John, " if my ancient estate
(i. e. Knocklong) be recovered, £200 per annum for
himself and his heirs for ever." This eldest son, how-
ever, who inherited the Baronetcy, could not recover
the ancient estate ; it is not, therefore, to be won-
dered that he attended King James's Parliament of
Dublin in 1689, as a Representative of the Borough

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of Kilmallock; and early in August of the last year of
the campaign, when "the English army marched from
Carrick to Golden-bridge, three miles from Cashel,
Mr. John Grady of Corbray in the County of Clare,
arriving there with some intelligence of the posture
and strength of the Irish forces, stated that Lord
Brittas and Sir William Hurly were devastating the
country."* Again, in the subsequent engagement at
Thorn ond Gate, where 600 of the Irish perished,
besides 150 who were forced over the bridge, Colo-
nels Skelton, Hurly, sixteen other officers, and above
one hundred privates were taken prisoners.f Dean
Story, in his 4 Impartial History ,' says that Colonel
Hurly was wounded in desperate conflict, of which
wounds he probably died, as, when on his attainder
his transplanted Galway estate became forfeited, it
appears that the claim of his infant heir, Sir John
Hurly, was put forward at Chichester House in
1700, as that of a minor, by Bryan O'Bryan, his
guardian (who had married his widowed mother) ;
an estate tail was claimed for him, and a jointure off
the Galway property for her; but both petitions were
dismist, and the estate was sold discharged thereof to
Thomas O'Connor, Sir Thomas Montgomery, and the
Hollow Swords Blades' Company. The ill-fated young
Baronet, smarting under the confiscations which had
left him landless, attempted to raise men for the ser-
vice of the Pretender, but was arrested in Dublin
about the year 1714; he, however, effected his escape.

* Fitzgerald's Limerick, vol. 2, p. 332. f Idem, p. 370.

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Others of this name attainted in 1691 were

Patrick Hurley of Dublin, Arthur of Grillagh,
County of Cork, and John of Lissene, County of
Sligo.

The Hurly Manuscript Pedigree Book, the in-
teresting document before referred to, suggests that Sir
Maurice, the transplanted Hurly that died in 1683, had
a younger brother John, who was father of a John the
younger (that may be identical with the Lieutenant
John at present under consideration), and of three
daughters ; 1, Grace, married to Captain Purdon of the
County of Clare ; 2, Anne, to John Bourke of Cahir-
moyle ; and 3, Ellen, to John Lacey the father by her

of John and Pierce Lacey ; all these males having

been companions in arms in this short but desperate
campaign. Another John Hurly was Lieutenant in
Lord Clare's Dragoons, but he had passed with them
to France ; yet a third John was a Lieutenant in the
Infantry Regiment of Colonel Charles O'Bryan, while
a John 4 Hurliu ranks as Cornet in the Earl of Aber-
corn's Horse.

The aforesaid Genealogical Manuscript also relates
that a Dennis Hurly (descending from the brother of
Sir Thomas of Knocklong, Baronet), married Anne,
daughter of Robert Blenerhassett of Ballyseedy, Esq.,
by Avice Conway, daughter and co-heiress of Edward
Conway of Castle Conway ; and that he had issue by
said Anne five sons, Thomas, Charles, John, William,
and Dennis. The three last died without issue.
I Thomas, the eldest, married Alice, daughter of bis

r 2

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uncle, Thomas Blenerhassett and Jane Darby, and he
had by her three daughters. Charles, the second son,
married Alice, sole daughter and heiress of Edmund
Fitzgerald of Morrineregan and Mary Ferriter, by
whom he had a daughter and two sons, Thomas and
John. Thomas married Letitia, daughter of Arthur
Browne of Ventry and Alice Hurly ; and had issue
one son, Charles the younger. John, the second son
of the above-named Charles, married Mary, daughter
of Edmund Conway and Christian Bice, by whom he
left issue two sons, Robert Conway Hurly, the eldest,
and John, and five daughters. John, the second
son of John by Mary Conway, married Anna-Maria-
Theresa, only daughter of Colonel Hugh Hill of
Mount-hill, County of Armagh, by Elizabeth Kirwan,
daughter of the distinguished scholar, Richard Kir-
wan of Creg Castle, County of G-alway ; and he has
issue three sons ; Robert Conway married, and has
issue ; Hugh-Richard Kirwan, died s.p. and John
unmarried ; with four daughters.

LIEUTENANT JOHN MAPAS [alias Malpas].

When Edward Bruce, in the assertion of a claim to
the Crown of Ireland, fought in 1317 the battle of
Faughart, near Dundalk, John Malpas a native of
Drogheda, accomplished the most signal achievement
of that day ; he and Edward Bruce, writes Pembridge,
" fought hand to hand ; the valiant Scot fell before his

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opponent ; who, himself pierced with mortal wounds,
sunk a victor in death on the corse of his prostrate
enemy." In 1326, Henry Mapase, his descendant, is
recorded as a landed proprietor in Louth. John
1 Malpas ' was Mayor of Waterfordin 1363.

Of those attainted in 1642, were Christopher Mapas
of Dublin, Merchant ; Nicholas Mapas of the same,
and Garret and Edward ' Mape ' of Maperath, County
of Meath; the outlawed of 1691 were the above John
Mapas and Christopher Mapas, both described as of
Rochestown, County of Dublin; — an estate which does
not appear to have been divested, or it has otherwise
been restored to the old family ; for in 1789, on the
marriage of Catherine, the heiress of John 4 Malpas,'
as he is called, with Lord Talbot de Malahide, the
uncle of the present Peer, this property passed to his
family.

CORNET JOHN BEGG.

This surname appears on Irish records from the com-
mencement of the fourteenth century. In 1359, John
' Beg ' was one of the influential proprietors of the
County of Dublin, who were selected to applot that
district for a state assessment; and a family of the
name appears subsequently settled at Saggard in said
County. In 1500, the Corporation of Gal way voted
the freedom of their town to Richard Begg, on condi-

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tion of his keeping an inn for victualling and lodging
strangers.* In the Outlawries of 1642 appears the
name of Matthew Begg of Boranstown, County of

Dublin. On this Army List, another John Begg

ranks an Ensign in Sir Michael Creagh's Infantry ;
and the Attainders of 1691 comprise John Begg,
described of Kilkellan, County of Meath ; James
'Beggs' of Cartown in the same County, Barnabas
Begg of Galway, Merchant ; and Thomas Begg of

same. At the Court of Claims in 1703, Joseph

Dowdall, and Ishma Begg his mother, (widow of Matt
Dowdall his father, who had married to her second
husband Ignatius Begg), claimed an estate tail for
him, an estate for life to Ishma, and a reversion to
the heirs of Ignatius in County of Westmeath lands,
forfeited by said Matt Dowdall. Pending the
proceedings at Chichester House, she became an idiot
and a fresh claim was made for her as Ishmay Begg,
alias Dowdall, by her son Ignatius Begg the younger,
for small incumbrances charged on the confiscations of
Sir Anthony Mulledy in the County of Meath.

QUARTER-MASTERS FRANCIS BOWERS AND
SIMON BRICE.

Neither of these surnames occurs again on this Army
List, nor at all on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691.

* Hardiman's Galway, p. 199.

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QUAETEE-MASTEE JAMES WOLVERSTON.

The Wolverstons were long located in Wicklow. At
the time that tract was erected into a County, James
Wolverston claimed Ballinecor and Ballycreery in
Cooleranill as his right and inheritance, by a convey-
ance from a native Sept.* He was also possessed of
'Stalorgan,' County of Dublin, under a lease from
Eichard Plunket of Eathmore. Of those outlawed in
1642, were James Wolverston, described as of Rath-
bran and Frainstown, County of Wicklow ; Paul
Wolverston of the same locality, with Christopher
Wolverston of Newcastle in said County.

At the Assembly of Confederates in Kilkenny in
1647, Francis Wolverston, styled of Newtown, was of

the Commons. On the present Army List, besides

this James, Eichard Wolverston was an Ensign in
Lord Galway's Eegiment of Infantry. Neither of
these surnames appears in the Attainders of 1691, but
only that of a William 'Wolferston' of Knockedritt,
County of Wicklow. He, it appears, held these lands
under Sir Eobert Kennedy, whose heir, Sir Eichard
Kennedy, claimed and was allowed the reversion.
William forfeited also certain interests in King's
County lands, the former estate of Eobert Wolvers-
ton.

* Inquis. 1005, in Cane. Ilib.

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QUARTER-MASTER RICHARD NETTERVILLE.

The name of Netterville is traceable on Rolls in the
Irish Chancery of such high antiquity, that the gene-
ral contents have ceased to be legible. In 1224,
Luke Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, founded the
Dominican Friary in Drogheda ; in three years after
which he died, and was buried at the noble religious
house of Mellefont. In 1335, John Netterville was
summoned to attend John D'Arcy the Justiciary on
an expedition against Scotland. Some years after
which, Luke Netterville's seisin of Dowth, (long sub-
sequently the residence of this ennobled family) is re-
cognised on record,* while the right of presentation
to its Rectory was, on suit instituted, adjudged to the
English Priory of Lanthony. In 1559, Luke Netter-
ville of Dowth, theretofore Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, was promoted to be Chief of the King's
Bench. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585,
Richard Netterville was one of the Representatives of
the County of Dublin.

Immediately after the breaking out of the Insurrec-
tion of 1641, Lords Netterville, Gormanston, Fingal,
and Trimleston addressed a letter to the Marquess
of Clanricarde, whereby they sought earnestly to vin-
dicate 4 the scope and purpose of their taking up
arms ;' and, while the letter is dated 23rd February,
1641, from the camp near Drogheda, it contains a

* D1 Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 432.

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candid and explicit avowal that they had made com-
mon cause with O'Neill ; " and we now give your
Lordship to understand, that by God's assistance the
work is, by the help of our neighbours of Ulster, and
by our own endeavours, in a fair way; we having
already in the field about Dublin and Drogheda about
12,000 able men, and more expected daily, for the
most part well armed ; and besides we can assure
ourselves of the good will and endeavours of the rest
of our Catholic countrymen."* Nicholas Netterville,
Lord Viscount Dowth, was consequently attainted in
1642'; as were Luke Netterville of Corballis, and
Thomas Netterville of Black Castle, both in the
County of Dublin. At the Kilkenny Assembly of
1646, Viscount Netterville was one of the Temporal
Peers ; while, amongst the Commons, were Patrick
Netterville of Belfast, and Eichard Netterville. This
Viscount was 'excepted from pardon for life and
estate' in Cromwell's Act of 1652, as was also Sir
John Netterville, Knight. The Act of Settlement,
however, of 1662, restored (after certain reprisals)
Lord Netterville and Luke Netterville of Corballis.
The Act of Explanation, 17 and 18 Car. 2, c. 2, sec.
97, reciting that whereas Nicholas Lord Netterville
had been adjudged by the Commissioners 'nocent,'
but his younger brothers and sisters had by decrees of
said Commissioners recovered remainders, expectant
upon his death without issue male, and also their por-
tions chargeable thereon ; it was thereby ordered

* D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 243.

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that, two-thirds of his estates being reserved to the
adventurers applotted thereon, the remaining third
should be given back to the Viscount, and that he
should himself be restored in blood to all intents and
purposes.

It is remarkable that of this historic name no other
member is noted in this Army List. Walker, however,
in his 'Siege of Deny,' (p. 60) makes mention of a
Lieutenant 'Netervil' as having been taken prisoner

on that occasion. The Viscount's name appears on

the Pension List of 1687-8, for £100 per annum.
He sat in the Parliament of 1689, and was attainted
in 1691, with James and Terence Netterville of
Dowth, Sir John Netterville, and William and
Nicholas Netterville of Cruise-rath, County of Meath.
The Inquisition held at Trim on the 13th January,
1699, on Viscount Nettervill, finds that he, "with
divers other armed traitors, and with banners dis-
played, levied war against the King and Queen ; that
he did service at the siege of Derry, in July, 1689,
where he was taken in battle; and that he afterwards
died." At the Court of Claims in 1703, a Nicholas
Netterville was a suitor for the benefit of a mortgage,
affecting lands forfeited by John Cheeverjs within the
Half Barony of Killian, County of Galway.

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REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

sir neill o'xeill's.

Captains.

Lieutenants.

Comets.

Quarter-Masters.

The Colonel.

Henry O'Neill.

Lieut.-Colonel,

Major.

Nicholas Eustace. Christopher Eustace.

Daniel Egan.

William Butler. Richard Redely. John Manning. Constant Kelly.

It would detract from the glories of this great
Milesian name to attempt any summary of its annals
and achievements here. They alike abound on the
native chronicles and on those of later histories and
records. '

In 1394, on the occasion of King Richard's first
visit to Ireland, O'Neill, Dynast of Ulster, and his
subordinate Chieftains, O'Hanlon, Mac Mahon, and
others, did homage and fealty to that Monarch at

Jeffry Fay. <
Murtogh McGuinnis.
Ever McGuinnis.

Charles Fitzgerald. Laurence Delahunty.
Roland Savage. John Savage.
Charles Mc Carty.

Henry Savage.
Nicholas Williams.

Christopher Piers. Thomas Darcy.

COLONEL SIR NEILL O'NEILL.

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Drogheda.* In 1520, when the Earl of Surrey came
over as Lord Lieutenant to Ireland, Con (surnamed
Bocagh) O'Neill, who had by popular election suc-
ceeded his brother in the Principality of Ulster, in-
vaded Meath with a large but undisciplined force :
Surrey hastened to encounter him, but O'Neill, awed
by his character and the well-known discipline of his
forces, retired before him, and sent letters to solicit
pardon and peace. In the October following, Koyal
policy directed that O'Neill and certain other Irish
potentates should be knighted, and the King sent a
collar of gold to the former, ordering Surrey to
prevail upon him to visit the Court, where Henry
hoped to introduce him to English habits. f A simi-
lar policy prompted James the First to take under his
especial care Con O'Neill, the son of the newly cre-
ated Earl of Tyrone ; and Eoyal disbursements appear
on the Pell Polls of that time, as for "£51 for so
much money expended for the apparel, bedding, and
other necessaries, provided for the education and
bringing up of Con O'Neill ;" another "for £20 5s.
for his expenses one quarter, at Eton College," &c. J

The Attainders of 1642 include James 'O'Neale' of
F el trim, and Thomas Neale of A thy ; while, in the
Assembly of Confederate Catholics, four years after-
wards, sat Henry O'Neill of Kilboy, Phelim O'Neill of

Morly, and Turlough O'Neill of Ardgonnell. The

Declaration of Royal gratitude in 1662, as "for

* Dalton's Drogheda, vol. 1, p. 122.

t Idem, vol. 2, p. 182. J Idem, p. 210.

O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS.

301

services beyond the seas," notices Con O'Neill of Ard-
gonnell, County of Armagh ; and Captain John
O'Neill of Carrick, County of Tipperary. In 1687,
Sir Bryan O'Neill was appointed a Justice of the
King's Bench ; at which time Sir Neill O'Neill raised
this Regiment at his own expence.* Besides him and
Lieutenant Henry in his Regiment, there are on this
Army List four other O'Neills, Colonels of Infantry ;
viz. Cormuck O'Neill, Gordon O'Neill, Felix O'Neill,
and Henry O'Neill. The name further appears com-
missioned in other Regiments ; as, — in Sarsfield's
Horse, Daniel O'Neill was a Captain ; — in Lord Don-
gan's Dragoons, Cormuck and Daniel O'Neill were
Captains, and Arthur a Lieutenant ; — in the Earl of
Antrim's Infantry, Hugh O'Neill was a Captain, John,
Bryan, and a second John, Lieutenants, and Francis
and Turlough O'Neill were Ensigns. — In Lord
Bellew's, Henry and Hugh O'Neill were Captains ; —
in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's, Felix, James, Bryan,
and Con O'Neill were Captains, Thomas and Henry,
Lieutenants, and Art O'Neill an Ensign.

" I am sending down," wrote King James to Gene-
ral Richard Hamilton before Derry, on the 10th of
May, 1689, the day after the meeting of his Parlia-
ment of Dublin, " Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons into
the Counties of Down and Antrim I think it ab-
solutely necessary you should not let any more men
come out of Derry, but for intelligence or some
extraordinary occasion ; for they may want provisions,

* O'Conor s Milit. Mem. p 195.

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and would be glad to rid themselves of useless
mouths."* Accordingly, early in the campaign this
Eegiment signalized itself in Down and Antrim, and
afterwards at the siege of Deny, where a Lieutenant

Con O'Neill was killed. In the Parliament of

1689, Constantine O'Neill was one of the Representa-
tives for the Borough of Armagh, as was Cormuck
O'Neill for the County of Antrim, Daniel O'Neill for
Lisburn, Toole O'Neill for Killileagh, Arthur O'Neill of
Bally gawly for Dungannon, and Colonel Gordon O'Neill
for the County of Tyrone.

When Schomberg was reported to have sent detach-
ments to Sligo to command that country, King James
despatched Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons, with Briga-
dier Sarsfield's and Henry Luttrell's Horse, and
Charles Moore's and O'Gara's Infantry, to prevent
their progress thither ; and the gallant conduct ot
Henry Luttrell on this occasion is before alluded to,
ante p. 191, by King James's biographer. This Eegi-
ment did further and most effective service at the
Boyne, disputing the passing of the River at Slane by
the enemy's right wing, " till their cannon came up,
and then retiring in good order with the loss of only
five or six common men, their Colonel shot through
the thigh, (of which wound he died), and one officer
or two wounded, f According to the Duke of
Berwick's Memoir, this movement of Sir Neill O'Neill
was by King James's especial order ; who, " believing

* Manuscripts in T.C.D. (E. ii. 19).
f O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 352.

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the enemy might march by their right up to Slane to
pass the river there, and endeavour to force the ford
at Old Bridge, sent for Sir Neill O'Neill s Eegiment of
Dragoons to Slane, with orders to defend that pass as
long as he could, without exposing his men to be cut
to pieces, and then either offer the King battle, or
march straight towards Dublin, which they might
easily have done, at least with a detached body of
Horse and Dragoons, being so much superior to the
King in them as well as in Foot."* His Eegiment
accordingly " resisted for a whole hour the passage
of the English at Slane, though exposed to the fire of
a numerous artillery and the charges of cavalry greatly
their superiors in number, "f

The Attainders of 1691 include of this name
Bichard, Earl of Tyrone; Bryan O'Neill of Dublin,
Baronet ; Henry, Gordon, Hugh, and Philip O'Neill,
also of Dublin ; Arthur of Ballygawley, County of
Tyrone ; Constantine of Armagh, Cormuck of Brook-
shane, County of Antrim ; Daniel of Belfast, Toole
of Dromin willy, County of Down ; Arthur of Bally-
duff, Kings County ; Brian of Ballinacor, County of
Wicklow ; Henry 'Neal' of Drogheda, clerk ; Daniel
Neal of Ballycamond, County of Carlow ; James
' Neel ' of Clonegal, Do.; Cam O'Neill of Loughmore,
County of Antrim ; Gordon O'Neill of Crea, County
of Tyrone ; Cormuck of Kilultagh, Felix and Michael
of Killellagh, County of Antrim ; and this Sir Neill

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 395.
t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 107.

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O'Neill, described as also of said Killellagh ; Shane
O'Neill of Creevecarnow, and Murtough of Tullylish,
County of Down ; John of Fallagh, Owen of Brenton,
Turlough, James, and Francis of Fintona, all in the
County of Tyrone ; Paul and Phelemy of Bally ma-
cully, Charles of Derry noose, and Terence of Aghna-
grahan, all in the County of Armagh. At the Court
of Chichester House in 1700, claims were preferred
against the confiscations of Sir Neill O'Neill, Baronet,
by Dame Frances O'Neill his widow, for her jointure,

as charged by settlement of 1677, allowed. By

Cormuck O'Neill, as administrator of the Marchioness
of Antrim, for mortgages and judgments affecting his
estates, allowed By Eose O'Neill, one of his daugh-
ters, for her portion, dismist. There were three

other daughters of his, Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne, who

do not appear to have made any claims. Jane, Clare,

and Elizabeth O'Neill sought and were allowed their
portions off Mayo estates of Con O'Neill ; as did Alice
and Margaret, other daughters of Con by his wife
Honoria O'Neill, alias ' Mc Daniel,' and all their claims
were allowed, as charged by the will of said Con,

dated 10th of May, 1684. Ellis O'Neill, alias

Mc Donnell, and Neile O'Neile claimed and were al-
lowed a leasehold affecting Mayo lands of Henry
O'Neile ; while a second Ellis O'Neill claimed, as
administratrix of John O'Neill, a charge on other
Mayo estates of Turlough O'Neill, but her petition was
dismist.

O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS.

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CAPTAIN JEFFREY FAY.

A family of the name was settled in the County of
Westmeath, of which this Jeffry, styled in the Inqui-
sition of 1691 Galfred Ffay of Trumroe in that
County, Gentleman, was a member. Eichard, Wil-
liam, Michael, and Edward Fay were also attainted,
and described as of the same house. George and John
Ffay of Derryneganahan and Thomas Ffay of Togher
were likewise outlawed in that County. There was
also in the North a Sept to which the Milesian 0 was
prefixed, and of which Morres O'Fay of Ballyloran
and Hugo O'Fay of Ballylanagh, County of Antrim,
were attainted in 1691.

CAPTAIN ROLAND SAYAGE.

This name is of early introduction into Ireland. In
1302, William, son of Alexander Savage, was one of
the Irish Magnates selected to attend Richard de
Burgo in the Scottish war. In eight years after,
Richard le Savage was one of those summoned to a
great Council convened at Kilkenny ; and, in 1335,
Robert Savage and John de Sauvage were of the Ulster
chiefs ordered to attend John Darcy the Justiciary in
the expedition against Scotland.* Pembridge in his
Annals records the death in 1360 of Sir Robert

* I)' Alton's History of Droghcda, vol. 2, p. 83.

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Savage of Ulster, 1 an excellent soldier he was buried
in the Dominican Friary of Deny. In 1375, Henry
Savage, Knight, was summoned to Parliament ; as he
was again in 1377 and 1381. In 1493, John
' Savage ' was Mayor of Dublin.

The Settlement of the family in the Ardes, County
of Down— or rather the recognition of their oc-
cupancy there in the time of Queen Elizabeth — is
fully set out in Harris's too brief History of that in-
teresting County. " The Family is reputed to be
above 400 years standing in Ireland," writes William
Montgomery immediately after the Eevolution ;
"They called themselves Lords of the Little Ardes, and
were men of great esteem, and had far larger estates
in the County of Antrim, than they have now in the
Ardes, which former they resigned to hold under the
Mc Donnell.* Besides the line long settled at Porta-
ferry, there was another not less ancient branch, the
Savages of Ardkeen Castle. This family is of good
account, and hath a second Castle called Scatrick,
(the oldest pile of this family as is said,) and thirteen
islands in Lough Coan ; both castles are tenable if
fortified and repaired. Of this family one cadet,
named Roland, an officer in Queen Elizabeth's wars
against the Irish, hath, since King James's entry into
England, built the two Castles of Ballygalgat and
Kerkstone (being high square piles), and gave the
shore with lands adjoining unto two of his sons."f
In 1614, Sir Arthur Savage, Knight and Privy

* Montgomery MS. p. 68.

t Idem, p. 302.

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Councillor, (who had been previously distinguished in
the war in Munster) obtained a grant of various
castles, rectories, houses, mills, woods, lands, tithes,
&c. in the Counties of Cavan, Mayo, Galway,
Limerick, Tipperary, Kerry, Cork, Clare, Kildare,
Wicklow, Meath, Eoscommon and Dublin, as well as
in the City of Dublin. The only individual of the
name attainted in 1642 was William Savage of Lusk.
In King James's new Charter of 1688 to Ar-
magh, Patrick Savage was one of the burgesses.

Besides this Captain Eoland, there are in the Army
List, in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry, Edmund
Savage a Lieutenant, and Henry Savage an Ensign.
Captain Eoland represented Newry in King James's
Parliament, and, in the Inquisition for his Attainder,
was described as of Portaferry and Newry, in Down.
Within which County were also outlawed Patrick
and Henry Savage of Ballygalgat, Thomas and Hugh
of Dromode, James of Ballyspurge, Hugh of Bally-
darves, Lucas of Dunhunck, and John and James
Savage of Eocks.

In 1702, the Eight Honourable Philip Savage,
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, purchased
various lands in the County of Carlow, which had
been the estates of John Baggott attainted ; as did
Patrick Savage of Portaferry part of the confiscations
of Captain Eoland Savage, with "the fresh-water
lough thereto belonging." The Hollow Swords Blades'
Company also purchased his estate of Dromardin in
the Ardos. At the Court of Claims, Patrick Savage

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a minor, sought and was in part allowed a remainder
in tail under settlements of 1685 in said Roland's
estates ; while Hugh Savage, as son and heir of John
Savage, was allowed a chiefly out of certain lands of
the same forfeiting proprietor ; as was another
Patrick Savage, to a certain extent, a mortgage
charged upon same ; and John Mc Cormick and
Dame Elizabeth Ponsonby claimed and were allowed
charges on other premises of Roland.

LIEUTENANT RICHARD REDDY.

The Inquisition, taken on his Attainder in 1691,
describes him as of Leighlin Bridge ; a William
Reddy, described as of Old Leighlin, was also then
outlawed.

CORNET JOHN MANNING.

The O'Mannings were a Sept more especially located
in the present Barony of Tyaquin, County of Gal way,
where the Castle of Clogher was their chief residence.
This Cornet is however described, on the Inquisition
for his Outlawry, as of Lebeltstown, County of Kil-
kenny ; and, as a family of the name of ' Maynwaring'
was at this time and previously of influence and re-
spect in Kilkenny, it would seem that this officer's

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surname may have been here corrupted from the
latter appellation.

CORNET CHRISTOPHER PIERS.

Besides Cornet Piers, in this Regiment, Maurice
Piers was a Lieutenant, and Patrick ■ Peirs ' an En-
sign in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry. Yet the
Attainders of 1691 do not mark off any of these per-
sons, but only others, viz. John and Turlogh Piers of
Calavennane, County of Clare ; while John Piers of
Wicklow is the single outlaw on those of 1641.

The name is however of record in Ireland from the
time of Edward the Third. In 1362, Thomas Piers
was Abbot of the venerable Religious House of Clon-
ard ; and when, in two centuries after, the dissolution
of these establishments was resolved upon, Sir Henry
Piers, Baronet, had a grant of the monasteries of
Corock, Gervaherin, and Puble in the County of
Tyrone, with their possessions ; while Captain Wil-
liam Piers had a lease of the once beautiful priory of
Tristernagh, with its ambit and possessions. His
title was afterwards converted into the fee; the noble
Priory, however, has long since been disconsecrated to
domestic uses, and its extent and magnificence can
but be conjectured from the virw in Grose's Antiqui-
ties of Ireland.

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CORNET NICHOLAS WILLIAMS.

The name of Williams does not appear on the Attain-
ders of 1642, or on those of 1691. In Sir John
Perrot's Parliament of 1585, Thomas Williams was
one of the Representatives of the County of Mayo, as
was Edward Williams of the Borough of Philipstown.
Dr. Griffith Williams, born in Caernarvon in 1589,
succeeded to the see of Ossory in 1641, and died at
Kilkenny in 1672. His Life is chronicled fully in

Ware's Bishops. In 1662, William Williams

represented the borough of Swords in Parliament,
and in 1675 he was Sheriff of the County of Dublin.

REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

COLONEL DANIEL O'BRYAN'S, (LORD CLARE).

Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter- Masters.

The Colonel. Turlogh O'Bryan. Daniel O'Bryan. James Neylan.

James Phillips, David Barry. Thomas Fitzgerald. William Hawford.

Lieut.-Colonel.
Francis Browne,

Major.

Florence Mac Na- John Hurley. Murtagh Hogan. James White,
mara.

Redmond Magrath. John Ryan. Hugh Perry. James Ryan.

Morres Fitzgerald. Murrough O'Bryan. Thomas Donnell. Christopher O'Bryan

James Mc Daniell. Owen Cahane. Nicholas Archdeken. Edmund Bohilly.

Nicholas Bourke. Silvester Purdon. John Bourke. Gerald Fitzgerald.

John Fitzgerald. William Lysaght. William Neylan. Daniel MacNamara.

Roger Shaughnessy. Joseph Furlong. Laurence Dean. Dermott Sullivan.

Teigue O'Bryan. Patrick Hehir. Hugh Hogan. James O'Dea.

Thady Quin. Richard Bedford. Thomas Clanchy. Thomas Lee.

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COLONEL DANIEL O'BEYAN, LORD CLARE.

This is another of the kingly families of Ireland in
old times, whose achievements cannot be here com-
pressed. The Sept was one of the five of the Irishry,
who were by special grace early enfranchised, and
enabled to take benefit of the laws of England ; the
other four being O'Neill of Ulster, O'Melaghlin of
Meath, O'Conor of Connaught, and Mac Murrough of
Leinster.* In 1314, Edward the Second directed an
especial letter missive for aid on his Scottish expedi-
tion to Donogh O'Brian, 'Duci Hibernicorum de
Thomond ;' and also to Murtagh O'Brien. As the de-
descendants of Brien Boru of immortal memory, this
race gave titular Kings to Thomond down to the
year 1543 ; when Murrough O'Brien, surrendering
his Captaincy and Principality to Henry the Eighth,
was created the first Earl of Thomond ; while at the
same time the politic monarch conferred the title of
Baron of Ibrackan upon his nephew, Donogh O'Brien,
on whom, upon his uncle's death, Edward the Sixth,
in 1552, conferred the Earldom of Thomond, to be
enjoyed by him and his heirs male.

At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1647, sat
in the Commons Conor O'Brien of Ballinacody, and

Dermot O'Brien of Dromore. In 1652, Cromwell's

' Act for Settling Ireland' excepted from 1 pardon for
life and estate' Murrough O'Brien, Baron of Inchiquin,

* Davis's Hist. Eel. p. 46.

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Dermot O'Brien of the County of Clare, and Murtogh
O'Brien of Arra, County of Tipperary. In 1663, the
Declaration of Eoyal gratitude for 'services beyond
the seas,' includes Captain Terence Bryan of Palace-
greny, County of Louth; and Captain Dermot
O'Brian of Carrickonguis, County of Cork ; while, by
the Act of Explanation, Daniel O'Bryan of Duogh,
County of Clare, was ordered to be restored to his
' Seat ' and 2,000 acres of his estates.

By an order of Lord Tyrconnel to Colonel John
Russell, dated 18th June, 1686, that officer was
directed to receive into his Regiment, and to rank
there on his respective companies, (inter alios)
Lieutenant Cornelius O'Bryan, Lieutenant Terence
O'Bryan, Ensign Turlogh O'Bryan, and Ensign Mau-
rice 'Bryan.'* In King James's Charter of 1687, &c.
Pierce Bryan was one of the Free Burgesses in that
to Carlow, and was also head of the municipal Roll of
Maryborough. Michael was one of the Aldermen in
that to Kilkenny. This Colonel, Lord Clare, and
Denis O'Bryan of Dough, Esq., were Burgesses in the
Charter to Ennis, as was Terence O'Bryan in that to
Navan, and Luke ' Bryan ' in the Charter to Ennis-

corthy. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) sat,

amongst the Peers, O'Bryan, Earl of Thomond ('a
papist'); O'Bryan, Earl of Inchiquin, (a Protestant);
and O'Brien, this Viscount Clare : while in the Com-
mons David O'Brien was one of the Representatives of
the County of Clare, Alderman James 4 Bryan ' one of

* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 459.

CLARES DRAGOONS.

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those for the City of Kilkenny, as was Piers 4 Bryan7
for the Borough of Maryborough.

This Army List has on Lord Clare's Regiment,
besides the Colonel, four others of the name of
O'Bryan : — Charles O'Bryan was Colonel of another
Regiment, (Infantry), in which Donogh O'Bryan was
Captain, and Teigue and a second Donogh were Lieu-
tenants ; Carberry 4 Bryan ' was a Lieutenant in Col-
onel Robert Clifford's Dragoons ; Kennedy O'Bryan, a
Captain in Lord Mount Cashel's Infantry, in which
Walter Bryan was a Lieutenant. James and Lewis
4 Bryan 7 were Lieutenants, and Denis Bryan an
Ensign in the Earl of Tyrone's ; Michael 4 Bryan ' a
Captain in Colonel Thomas Butler's ; Thomas Bryan,
a Captain in Lord Kilmaliock's, as was Donogh
O'Bryan in Major-General Boiseleau's ; Arthur and
Denis Bryan were Lieutenants in Sir Michael
Creagh's ; James Bryan a Captain in Lord Galmoy's
Horse; Murtagh Bryan in Sarsfield's. In that of
Colonel Hugh Sutherland, James Bryan was a
Captain, and Francis Bryan a Cornet ; while, lastly,
John Bryan was a Quarter-Master in Tyrconnel's.

One of these officers, styled Captain O'Bryan,

was killed at the siege of Derry, 28th June, 1689.*
In the August following, at the time of Schomberg's
landing, this Regiment was stationed in Munster.f

The history of this family has very peculiar inte-
rest, even within the limits prescribed for these Illus-

* Walker's Siege of Derry, p. 61.
t Clarke's James II. p. 372.

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trations. Daniel O'Bryan, the third and youngest son
of Cornelius 0' Bryan, third Earl of Thomond, was
styled of Moyarty and Carrigaholt. He did great
service and received many wounds in the wars of Ire-
land, for which he was knighted and rewarded with
considerable grants of lands in the County of Clare,
which he had represented in the Parliament of 1613.
Living to see the Restoration, he was created Viscount
of Clare in 1662, in consideration of his own and his
children's services, both at home and in foreign parts,
and, for the maintenance of that degree of honor, he
had restitution of his whole estate. His grandson
and namesake was the individual under present con-
sideration, the third Viscount Clare, who attended
King Charles in his exile, raised two Regiments of
Infantry for James the Second, and this of Dragoons,
which, from the facing of the uniform, was known by
the popular name of the Dragoons Buy (yellow). It
was raised at Carrigaholt, and being considered the
flower of James's army, was sent into Ulster at the
opening of the campaign, under the conduct of Sir
James Cotter, forming part of the numerous and well
appointed force of which Lord Mountcashel had
then the command ; but, on the 26th July, 1689,
those troops were encountered near Lisnaskea, in the
County of Fermanagh, by Captain Martin Armstrong,
with two troops of Horse and two companies of Foot,
who, "making a feint to attack with his horse, retired
as if in disorder, till he drew Lord Mountcashel's
forces into the ambuscade of his Foot, who, by an un-

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expected volley caused a great slaughter ; the Horse
at the same instant facing about, fell on with incredi-
ble force, and cut this brave Regiment almost to
pieces, very few escaping by flight."*

This Colonel Lord Clare was of King James's Privy
Council from 1684, and Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Clare. He fought at the Boyne, and died
soon after. He had married Philadelphia, eldest
daughter of Francis Leonard Lord Dacre, of the
South, and sister to Thomas, Earl of Sussex. She
died in 1662, leaving two sons by Lord Clare, Daniel
and Charles ; Daniel, the fourth Viscount, went with
King James into France, and was selected by that
Monarch to form a portion of the Brigade of Mount-
cashel. He died in 1693 at Pignerol, of wounds he had
received on the occasion of the victory gained by Catinat
over the Allies at Marsiglia. He never married, and
his brother Charles, who had espoused the eldest
daughter of Henry Buckley, Esq. Master of the
Household to King James, became the fifth Viscount.
For him was embodied a French Brigade Regiment,
styled the Queen's Dismounted Dragoons, that after-
wards was eminently distinguished in the wars of the
Continent. It consisted of one Battalion formed into
six Companies, each of one hundred men, officered by
one Captain, two Lieutenants, and two Cornets.
Alexander Barnewall was its Lieutenant-Colonel,
and Charles Maxwell, Major.

This gallant Brigade in 1691 mounted the trenches

* Graham's Derriana, p. 27.

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at Mountmelian, and served in Piedmont in 1693.
At the battle of Marsiglia, being strengthened to three
Battalions, they presented a phalanx which remained
impenetrable to the attacks of the German Regiments
commanded by Prince Eugene, and they mainly
effected his defeat. In Spain, in 1695, this Lord
Clare, at the head of his Dragoons, was very active in
several encounters, and chiefly contributed to raising
the siege of Castle Follet. In the Campaign of 1696,
his Regiment was distinguished at the siege of Valen-
za in Lombardy, in one of the sallies from which the
garrison bore everything before them, until checked
by Clare's Regiment, who finally repulsed and pur-
sued them to the palisades of Ortavie. In 1703, it
won much glory in the Italian campaign, when
Prince Eugene was compelled to raise the blockade of
Mantua. Afterwards, in the same year under Villiers
it maintained its character. At Blenheim, Lord
Clare led the Irish by a forced and rapid march
against the Imperialists, charged and broke them, and
commenced a horrible carnage, which continued in
the woods during the whole of the following night.
It is perhaps unnecessary to say, however, that this
was not the battle which immortalized Marlborough.
At that battle, however, which occurred in 1704,
Clare's was one of the Regiments posted at Oberklaw;
and, though assailed by four of the Dutch Regiments,
Lord Clare maintained his post with indescribable
bravery; the carnage was awful. In 1705, it served
in Germany under Marshal Villars, and in 1706 was

glare's dragoons.

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thrown into Eamillies to resist the assault of Marlbo-
rough. " So long as the Irish were supported by the
right wing of the French, they never yielded a single
inch of ground ; but, when the cavalry of that wing
was broken, and the infantry taken in flank, they
were forced to retreat. Lord Clare, who commanded
the Irish, and who on this occasion performed prodi-
gies, did not surrender his fine corps prisoners of war,
but cut his way through the enemy's Battalion, bear-
ing down their infantry with matchless intrepidity.
In the heroic effort to save his corps, he was mortally
wounded, and many of his best officers were killed.
His Lieutenant-Colonel, then Murrough O'Brien,
evinced on this occasion heroism worthy of the name.
Assuming the command, and leading on his men with
fixed bayonets, he bore down and broke through the
enemy's ranks, took two pair of colours, and joined
the rere of the French retreat on the heights of St.
Andre."* Lord Clare was himself carried into Brus-
sels, where he died of his wounds, and was interred in
the Irish monastery there.

He left several children, but only one son, another
Charles, born at St. Germains-en-Laye in 1699, and
styled the sixth Viscount, or more usually in France,
my Lord Comte de Clare. He, after some years,
having been invited to England by his cousin Henry,
Earl of Thomoncl, was by him presented to King

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 316-17, to which work the com-
piler is indebted for much of this narrative of Lord Clare's
Brigade.

nr.

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George the First, as heir at law to his estates and
honours, whereupon he was assured of pardon, provi-
ded he would conform to the Established Church, but
with this condition he would not comply. On the
breaking out of war between France and the Empire
in 1733, this Lord was attached to the army of the
Rhine, under the Duke of Berwick, and on the follow-
ing year he served at the memorable siege of Philips-
burg, where he received a contusion on the shoulder
from the same cannon shot that killed the Marshal
Duke. The Earl of Thomond did not however forget
his nephew ; but, dying in 1741, left a will of 1738,
whereby, although he bequeathed the bulk of his
estates to Murrough, Lord O'Brien, eldest son of the
Earl of Inchiquin, as being a Protestant ; he yet left
a legacy of £20,000 to this individual, who upon his
death assumed the title of ' Thomond ' in France, and
there in the military service was distinguished for his
knowledge of strategics, particularly evinced at the
battle of Dettingen in 1743, and of Fontenoy in two
years after; on the latter occasion, he was made
Lieutenant-General. In the same year, at Ypres in
Flanders, this Regiment of Lord Clare suffered con-
siderably. The list of those killed and wounded there
records of the killed, Lieutenant-Colonel O'Neill,
Captain-Lieutenant Short all, Captains Talsey, Mac
Ellicott and Maguire ; and Lieutenants Edward Fitz-
gerald and Macnamara ; while of the wounded

were Captain Grant, (Lord Clare's Aid-de-Camp),
Captains Christopher Plunket, Brien O'Brien,

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Creagh, Kennedy, Daniel Mac Carty and John

O'Brien; with Lieutenants Hugh Talsey,

Davoren, Charles O'Brien, Cornelius O'Neill, and Brien
O'Brien.* A Captain O'Brien was there also mortally
wounded in Roth's Regiment. In two years after, at
Lauffield, was killed in Clare's Regiment Captain
Charles O'Brien ; while Captains Murtough and Conor
O'Brien were there wounded. For his services in this
engagement, the French monarch promoted this Colo-
nel to the rank of Marshal Thomond, appointing him
Governor of New Brisac in Alsace, and Commander-
in-Chief of the Province of Languedoc and all the
coasts on the Mediterranean. In 1755, he married
Lady Marie Genevieve Louisa de Cheffraville, Marchio-
ness of Cheffraville in Normandy, and, dying of fever
at Montpelier in 1762, left by her Charles, his heir,
born at Paris in 1757, and a daughter born in 1758,
who married the Duke de Choiseul Praslin, by whom
she had a numerous issue. Charles the younger, and
the last Yiscount, died at Paris unmarried in 1774,
when the title became extinct,f while the Regiment
that bore his name was, on his decease, drafted into
Berwick's.

JAMES O'BRYAN, THIRD VISCOUNT INCHIQUIN,

Was a Captain of Grenadiers in this army, and as
such he was allowed a pension of £235 4s per annum
on the military establishment, with another of £100

* Gent. Mag. vol. xv. p. 276.

t Lodge's Peerage, vol. 2, p. 34.

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per annum on the Civil List ; he died in London of
smallpox, 26th October, 1688. His third son, Kich-
ard, being an officer, also in King James's service,
and going to France in April, 1689, during the war
with that kingdom, was therefore prohibited from
coming home by the Act, 9 William III. ; but, upon his
petition and his avowed willingness to take the oath
of allegiance, Queen Anne granted him licence to
return in 1703, and he died in 1707 unmarried.*

This Viscount was not included in the Attainders
of 1601 ; but Daniel Viscount Clare was then out-
lawed, as was Charles the fifth Viscount in 1696, by
the designation of Charles O'Bryan, commonly called
Lord Viscount Clare. There were also outlawed in
the former year Charles and Daniel O'Brien of Carrig-
aholt, and Murrough of Corrofin in the County of
Clare ; Morgan, Connor, and Daniel ' O'Bryen ' of
Hospital ; William, Kennedy, and Daniel O'Bryen of
Castletown, County of Limerick ; and Teigue
4 O'Brien ' of Carrowmore, County of Sligo. While in
the County of Westmeath were held Inquisitions of
outlawry against Bartholomew 1 Bryan ' of Coolvock,
Francis Bryan of Ballykeeran, and Henry Bryan of

Castleback; in the County of Carlo w, against

William and Michael Bryan of Eaheragh ; in the

County of Kilkenny, against Walter and Michael
Bryan of Harristown, James Bryan of Jenkinstown,
and John and Edward Fitz-james Bryan of Browns-
town ; in the County of Cork, against Dionysius

* Lodge's Peerage, vol. 2, p. 316.

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Bryan of Kilcoleman, Edward Bryan, Senior, and
Edward Bryan, Jnnior. In the County of Wexford,
against Lucas Bryan of Wexford Town, Hugh Bryan
of Mungane, Arthur Bryan of Ironbrick, and William
' Bryant ' of Rosse. In the County of Waterford,
against Darby Bryan of Craig-rush, and Terence
Bryan of Comeragh ; and lastly, against Turrock
Bryan of Ballinroan, County of Galway, and Piers

Bryan of the Queen's County. At the Court of

Claims, Francis O'Brien claimed an estate in fee, pur-
suant to the Act of Settlement, in lands forfeited by
Lord Clare ; while Ellen O'Bryen, alias O'Shaughnessy,
widow of Connor O'Bryen, claimed an estate for life
under her marriage settlements on lands forfeited by
Donogh O'Bryan.

For the gallant achievements of Murrough O'Bryan
(of Carrigogunnell) on the Continent, see OCallagli-
arils Brigades, vol. I, p. 82, &c; and of various other
O'Bryens distinguished in foreign service much will

be found in the same work, (p. 291). In 1769,

died at Cambray in France Dr. John O'Brien, there-
tofore the Eoman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES PHILLIPS.

Colonel Phillips was killed early in the campaign, at
the engagement with Colonel Wolseley, near Beltur-

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bet * when John Macnaniara of Cratloe was appointed
in his place.

The earliest notice of this name within the scope
of these Illustrations, occurs in the Declaration of
King Charles's gratitude for 4 services beyond the seas,'
which includes Captain Walter Phillips of Clonmore,
County of Mayo. Of that family was Charles Phillips,
a Captain in Colonel O'Gara's Infantry, and Gilduff
Phillips, an Ensign in his troop. Captain Charles, de-
scribed as of Ballindoe, a townland adjoining Clon-
more, and his relative Philip Phillips, were afterwards

adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. The

name appears also in King James's Charter to Kil-
kenny, where Samuel Phillips was one of the Alder-
men, and Thomas Phillips one of the Burgesses. In
the Attainders of 1691 are included James and
Edward Phillips, described as of Dromore, County of
Down ; and this James it would certainly seem was
the Lieutenant-Colonel here under consideration. As
the surname has, however, not flourished in the North,
while in the aforesaid locality of Clonmore it existed
to the present year, some particulars of its descent
from Wales are extracted from an ancient Pedigree
in the compiler's possession, drawn up in the last
century, and expressedly vouched by the attestation of
all the Eoman Catholic Bishops of Connaught, and
the Warden of Gal way.

It commences with Cadifer ap Colhoyn, Lord of
Dyfed, who was of the same tribe with Vortigern

* O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 36.

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King of Britain, and paternally descended from Maxi-
mus, King of Britain and Emperor of Rome. This Cad-
ifer was the founder of the ennobled line of Picton
Castle, and from him and his lady Helen, only daugh-
ter and heiress of Lleoch Llawen Vawr, a Prince of
Wales, the tree of these two Houses grows out
through his lineal heir male, Sir Adrin Ap Rhys, who
attended Richard the First into the Holy Land,
where he behaved so gallantly that he received the
order of Knighthood of the Holy Sepulchre, and a
grant of armorials, a lion rampant sable in a field
argent. His descendant, Philip ap Evan, left a son
Meredith, who was the first that took the name of
Phillips, styling himself Meredith Phillips, instead of
ap Phillip, the usual character of designation.

This Meredith was born in 1242, and while his
eldest son, Philip Phillips of Kylsant, was the ancestor
of the family of Picton Castle, his youngest son, John
Phillips, in the time of Edward the First, crossed
over in that monarch's service to subdue the Irish
4 rebels ' in Connaught, where, the enterprise having
succeeded, he acquired the patrimony of Clonmore,
with the townlands annexed in the County of Mayo, in
reward of his services. This John was born in 1271,
as was, in the eighth generation from him, Gilbert
Phillips of Clonmore, who married Mary Jordan,
daughter of Walter Jordan, a Chief of the adjacent
Barony of Gallen. Their eldest son Philip Phillips,

born in 1557, married a daughter of O'Gara,

Chief of the Barony of Coolavin, in the County of
Sligo; and their son Myles, born in 1590, married

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Mable, daughter of O'Donnelan of Rossedonelan,

County of Roscommon. Walter, the eldest son of
Myles and Mable, became a Major in the army, and
he is the individual named in the aforesaid Declara-
tion of thanks. He married Winifred, daughter of
Dudley Costello of the Barony of Costello. Their
eldest son, Philip Phillips, commonly called Captain
Phillips, was born in Austrian Belgium in 1653,
where his father then sojourned with the Royal
Family. On the Restoration these exiles returned to
Clonmore; and Philip, in 1682, married Bridget
O'Mulloy, daughter of Edward O'Mulloy, Chief of
Oughtertyry, County of Roscommon. Their eldest
son Myles, born in 1684, married in 1712 Juliana,
daughter of Edward Browne of Tullimore, County of
Mayo, by whom he had issue Edward his eldest son,
Philip Phillips his second son, Archbishop of Tuam,
('lately deceased,' says the Manuscript cited), and
John who died unmarried. Edward, in October,
1739, married Helena, daughter of John O'Kelly,
County of Galway, by whom he had one son, Thomas,
born in January, 1749, who in 1767 married Cathe-
rine, daughter of Philip and Anne O'Byrne of Kil-
loughter, County of Wicklow. Their issue £ are '
Edward, born 24th May, 1768; Philip, born 1770;

and Myles, born 1774. Here this ancient Pedigree

concludes. Edward, the eldest son, married in 1794,
Anne, daughter of Doctor Terence Mac Dermot of
Coolavin, and had issue Thomas, (and two other sons
who died unmarried), with three daughters. Thomas,

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the eldest son of Edward, married in 1828 Alicia,
daughter of Doctor O'Ferrall, of the old Sept of
Annaly, and he has by her three sons and four
daughters.

This family, of such ancient origin and old respect-
ability in their County, has, in the bloodless revolution
of the Incumbered Estates' Commission, been uprooted
from the soil. They are there no more.

MAJOK FEANCIS BEOWNE.

He was descended from Dominick Browne, who was
Mayor of Galway in 1575, through a younger son,
Andrew ; (the eldest son of Dominick was Geoffry,
ancestor of Lord Oranmore). Andrew's son, John,
was the father of this Major Francis, who having been
killed at Athlone was attainted in the following year,
the Inquisition styling him 'a Merchant of Waterford.'
On his death and attainder, his brother Anthony
succeeded to his property, and he was the lineal
ancestor of the present inheritor of Moyne, Michael
Joseph Browne.

Extended notices of this name are appended to
Lord Kenmare.

CAPTAIN EEDMOND MAGEATH.
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the County of Tipperary, also at Termon-Magrath in
the County of Fermanagh, and in later time in the
County of Clare, where they are spoken of in the mid-
dle ages as the chief poets of Thomond ; while in the
Parish of Modeligo, County of Waterford, they had a
large estate, on which the remains of their Castles are
noted by Smith.* In 1224, Simon Magrath was
Bishop of Ardagh; of Killaloe, Matthew ' Mac Cragh '
was Bishop in 1391, Donat ' Mac Cragh in 1428,
Thady Mac Cragh in 1430, and Dermot 4 Mac Cragh '
in 1480; and Matthew Macraigh was Bishop of Clon-
fert in 1482. In the ensuing century lived Miler
Magrath, a Franciscan friar of the Fermanagh line of
this family. He had been by the Pope's provision ad-
vanced to the See of Down ; but, having embraced the
Protestant religion in 1570, he was by Queen Eliza-
beth translated to that of Clogher, and afterwards in
the same year to the Archbishopric of Cashel, with
Emly annexed, and yet more those of Waterford and
Lismore by a commendatory grant, with various other
substantial favours from her Majesty. He filled the
Archbishopric for upwards of fifty-two years, during
which time, says Harris in his additions to Ware,
4 he made most scandalous wastes and alienations of the
revenues and manors belonging to it.' He died at
Cashel in 1622, in the hundredth year of his age.f In
1629, a Royal warrant issued, directing Lord Falkland

* History of Waterford, p. 82.

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to grant a Baronetage* to John Magrath of Attyvo-
lane, in the County of Tipperary, who had some years
previously obtained from the Crown a grant of the
Lordship of Knockorden, with divers townlands, the
castle, town, and lands of Ballyneanty, and all tithes
and advowsons belonging to the premises, with courts
leet and baron, f

The Attainders of 1641 present the names of Rich-
ard and Patrick Magrath, both of Fyanstown, County
of Meath ; while Cromwell's Act (1652) so often
cited, excepted from pardon for life and estate Sir
John ' Magragh ' of the County of Tipperary, (i. e.
the Baronet of Attyvolane), and Turlogh, son of
James Magragh. Besides Captain Redmond- Ma-
grath, there are on this List Bryan Magrath, a Lieu-
tenant in the Earl of Antrim's Infantry; James, a
Captain in the Earl of Tyrone's ; Terence and John,
Captains in Lord Galmoy's (the latter was afterwards
adjudged within the Articles of Limerick) ; another
Terence was Lieutenant in Tyrone's, Miles and
Nicholas were Lieutenants in Colonel John Barrett's,
and Thomas was a Captain in Sir Charles O'Bryan's
Infantry.

It appears from the Inquisitions of 1691, and the
Petitions of 1700, that this Captain Redmond was of

* Gilbert, in his interesting History of the City of Dublin,
states (p. 4) that Charles II. granted to the request of Sir
James Ware, who had declined the honours of a Viscounty and
a Baronetage from his Sovereign, two blank baronetcies which
Sir James filled up for two friends.

t Rot. Pat. 13, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib.

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a Clare family, and seized of estates in that County ;
an estate tail in which was on his attainder claimed
by Eobert Magrath, and allowed. Eedmond Magrath,
a minor, also sought and was allowed an estate tail in
other Clare lands of said Eedmond, under articles
entered into in 1687, upon the marriage of James, the
father of said minor, and Mary his mother; under
which articles that mother was allowed an annuity
and jointure off said lands ; while John Magrath
obtained the benefit of a mortgage on the same estate,
and Honora, widow of Thomas Magrath, an annuity

thereof. For other claims, see ante, p. 155. A

large portion lying in the Barony of Tullagh, County
of Clare, was sold by the Commissioners of the forfei-
tures to Terence G-eoghegan in 1703. Another
Magrath then attainted was Bryan of Large, County
of Fermanagh.

At the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht, in 1747,

Captain Jehn Magrath and Lieutenant Magrath

were of those in Berwick's Brigade wounded.

CAPTAIN ROGEK SHAUGHNESSY.

The O'Shaughnessys were Lords of a mountainous dis-
trict dividing Galway from Clare. The Sept is, how-
ever, traced in the Annals of other parts of this
country. In 1060, died Dermot O'Shaughnessy,
Abbot of Dunshaughlin, County of Meath ; as did in
1140 another Dermot O'Shaughnessy, 'the most dis-

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tinguished sage of Leath Cuinn,' the northern half of
Ireland ; and in 1224, Giolla-na-naomh O'Shaugh-
nessy, Lord of the western half of Kinalea, (Barony of
Kiltartan, County of Galway). In 1451, a licence
for using the English law was granted to Donat
* O'Shasn am/ which seems to refer to a member of this
Sept. In 1543, King Henry, by a patent, reciting
that Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy and his ancestors had
theretofore possessed themselves of premises in the
County of Galway unjustly, but that Sir Dermot had
now surrendered same, the King therefore hereby con-
veyed to him as the Chief of his name, and to his heirs
male, all the manors, lands, &c. of Gort-Inchigorie,
with several other denominations. To Perrot's Par-
liament of 1585, went John and Dermot, the two sons
of Giolla Dhu O'Shaughnessy, Chief of Kinel-aodha
and Gort ; while in the Supreme Council of 1647,
Dermot O'Shaughnessy, the heir male of Dermot of
1543, was one of the Commons. He was deprived of
his estates by the Usurping Powers ; but on the Re-
storation was knighted, and by the Act of Explana-
tion restored to his seat and 2,000 acres of his inhe-
ritance.

In 1642, the Marquis of Clanricarde wrote to Lord
Inchiquin : — " The bearer, my noble kinsman, Sir
Roger Shaughnessy, has, by my licence, taken his de-
parture out of this government into Munster, to take
care of his lady, family [who were besieged there]
and estate in these parts, which, by reason of his long
absence, doth and may suffer by the general unhappy

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distemper in this kingdom. I could not let so much
worth and merit pass from me, without giving your
Lordship notice that in his own person, his son and
followers, he hath constantly, and with much forward
affection, been present and assisting to me in all my
proceedings and endeavours for his Majesty's ser-
vice."* The son here alluded to was Dermot
O'Shaughnessy, hereinafter mentioned, who raised
fifty foot soldiers in the Marquis's service. William,
the brother of Sir Roger, was likewise a Captain in
the Clanricarde levy, and his character and loyalty
obtained from the Corporation of G-alway in 1648 a
vote that he, then " Lieutenant-Colonel William
O'Shaughnessy, (in consideration of his alliance in
blood to the whole town, and for the good nature and
affection that he and his whole family do bear to it,)
and his posterity shall be hereafter free of their
guild, "f The Captain Eoger in this Eegiment was the
lineal male descendant of his namesake ; he married
Helen, daughter of Connor O'Bryan, Lord Viscount
Clare ; joined King James's forces, and was present
at the battle of the Boyne, from which he returned
home sick, though not wounded, and died in the
Castle of Gort ten days after that fatal field. He was
attainted in 1697, when his estates were granted to
Sir Thomas Prendergast, ' a gentleman of family in
Ireland,' j " upon the most valuable consideration of his

* Clanricarde's Memoirs, fol. p. 201.
f Hardiman's Gal way, p. 216.
| Dalrymple's Mem. vol. 3, p. 75.

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discovering a most barbarous and bloody conspiracy
to assassinate the King's most Excellent Majesty, to
destroy the liberties and in consequence the Protest-
ant religion throughout Europe." The Irish House
of Commons had previously solemnly thanked him
therefor ; and, on a representation that the rental of
O'Shaughnessy's estate fell short of £500 per ann.
other lands in the Counties of Tipperary, Galway,
Eoscommon and Wexford were added to those already
appropriated for his reward ; the latter to the clear
amount of £334 per annum. The O'Shaughnessy
estates were afterwards the subject of long litigation,
even to an appeal to the Lords ; but all attempts to
disturb the grant of these confiscations were ineffec-
tive. Sir William, the heir of Eoger O'Shaughnessy,
died an exile in France in 1744. His cousin and
next heir was Coleman O'Shaughnessy, Roman Catho-
lic Bishop of Ossory, who instituted the alleged pro-
ceedings ; they were continued by his next relative,
Roebuck O'Shaughnessy, and on his death by Joseph,
the son of Roebuck, until decisively defeated.

The Attainders of 1691 include those of Dermot
1 Shaghnessy' of Castlegar, and William Shaghnessy
of Gort ; while from the claims preferred at Chiches-
ter House it appears that Captain Hugh Kelly, on
behalf of himself and his wife, sought a jointure
charged under settlements of 1688, on lands in the
County of Galway, forfeited by Roger O'Shaughnessy;

but their petition was clismist. In 1699, the

Trustees of the Forfeited Estates complained, in an

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official report, that so hasty had been several of the
grantees or their agents in the disposal of the forfeited
woods, that vast numbers of trees had been cut and
sold for not above 6d. a piece; and they particularly
named the wood of O'Shaughnessy's estate as having
been the subject of such waste.

CAPTAIN THADY QUINN.

This ancient Sept is recognised in the native Annals
from the earliest date of surnames ; those of Ulster
commemorate, amongst the heroes who fought at Clon-
tarf in 1014, Neill O'Quin. Widely spreading over
Ireland, this family held territory in Limerick, Clare,
Longford, Westmeath, and Derry. In the first
County the name has been in later years ennobled,
with the titles of Barons Adare and Earls of Dun-
raven. In 1095, died of the plague Augustin

O'Quinn, Chief Brehon of Leinster ; and in 1188,
Edwina, commemorated as 'daughter of O'Quinn of
Muinter-Iffernan in Thomond (Clare), and Queen of
Munster,' died in her pilgrimage at Derry, 'victorious
over the world and the devil.' In 1252, Thomas
O'Quinn was Bishop of Clonmacnoise, as was John
Quin of Limerick in 1505. The Patent Eolls record
pardons to Thomas 0 'Cuin ' in 1318, to Maolmurry
O'Coigne' of Castlemartin in 1395 ; and in 1402,
King Henry the Fourth granted to Thomas O'Coyne,
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333

the English law and language. In 1404, David and
John 0' ' Coynge,' of the County of Kildare, sued out
a licence of pardon ; and in 1413, Henry the Fifth
granted to James 0 'Coygne' similar licence as that
before given to Thomas 0 'Coyne,' clerk, with the
additional liberty of acquiring lands in mortmain for

religious uses. Walter Quinn 'of Dublin' was

preceptor to Prince Henry, on whose death he pub-
lished an epitaph in 1613.*

The Act that in 1612 confiscated Ulster by the
attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his confederates,
included Murtogh O'Quinn, 'late of Dungannon,' and
Teigue Modder O'Quinn of the same place. Crom-
well's memorable Ordinance of 1652 excepted from
pardon for life and estate Brien Modder O'Quynne,
and Turlogh Groom O'Quynne of Monagowre, in the
County of Tyrone; while Mr. John Quinn was one of
the twenty-four whom Ire ton condemned to die on
the capitulation of Limerick. The Attainders of
1642 include Richard and Laughlin Quinn of Bally-
hooke, County of Wicklow ; Edmund Quin of Bal-
lenteskin, do. clerk ; Christopher Quinn of St.
Audoen's parish, Dublin, and Christopher Quin of St.
Michan's, do. merchant. In a patent of Clare lands
granted in 1680 to Dame Lucy 'Fitzmorrice' and
her son Richard Fitz-Morrice, there was an especial
saving of the rights of Thady Quinn, possibly the
above Captain, to certain lands therein, and to a mort-
gage on others of the grant.

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On this Army List, besides the above Captain
Thady Quinn, Daniel Quinn was a Quarter-Master in
Colonel Nicholas Purcell's Horse, as was Eobert
Quinn in Lord Dongan's Dragoons ; Christopher
'Quin,' a Cornet in Colonel Symon Luttrell's, and
James 'Quinn,' a Lieutenant in Major General Boise-
leau's Infantrjr. Captain Thady Quinn was attainted
in 1691, when his estates in the County of Limerick
became vested in the Crown. The other Outlawries
were of William Quin of Dublin, Eichard Quinn of
A thy, Hugh Mc Turlogh O'Quin of Cornetule, and
Brian Oge Mac Turlogh O'Quin of Glunoe, County of
Tyrone.

LIEUTENANT SYLVESTER PURDON.

While this name is still extant of respectability in
the County of Clare, the above Lieutenant appears
to have been of a Cork family ; to one of whom, Colo-
nel Bartholomew Purdon, M. P. who died in 1737,
a monument is erected in the church of Ballyclogh.
The name does not appear on the Outlawries, or else-
where on the Army List.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM LYSAGHT.

In 1542, Edward 'Lysart' was presented by the
King to the perpetual vicarage of Ballytobin, which

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335

had come to the Crown on the Dissolution of monas-
teries, as parcel of the possessions of that of Kenlis in
Ossory. The List of ' Scholars ' of Trinity College,
Dublin, in 1612, has the name of Daniel Lysagh,
otherwise Mac Gillisagh, afterwards presented to
the rectory of Kathblynninge in the Diocese of
Killaloe, with a proviso that £ unless he shall reside
thereon, after he shall have finished his studies in
Trinity College, Dublin, the presentation shall be void.'*
In the war of 1641, James Lysaght was a Cornet in
the army, and distinguished himself under the com-
mand of the Earl of Inchiquin. [His son Nicholas
was a Captain in King William's army at the battle
of the Boyne, and was afterwards a claimant at Chi-
chester House, for charges affecting the Clare estates
of William Creagh, but his petition was dismist.
His son John Lysaght was in 1758 raised to the
Peerage, by the title of Baron Lisle of Mountrath, a
title which still exists.] In 1666, Cornet John
Lysaght had a confirmatory grant of 500 acres in the
Barony of Orrery, County of Cork. It was at this
time that a Thomas Lysaght, then a young man,
being on his passage to England, on his way to study
at Oxford, was taken by a French privateer and car-
ried into France, where he became a convert to the
Eoman Catholic religion. Incurring thereby the
displeasure of his father, he was disinherited, and the
estate of the family was bequeathed by that gentleman

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to a younger son, the above Captain Nicholas of King
William's army.

In the old cathedral graveyard of Kilfenora is the
chief burial place of the Clare Lysaghts, and on a slab
there is an inscription to Patrick Lysaght; in his
epitaph he is made to say, 1 Marti et Baccho scepe
tributa dedi.1 The tradition of the country points
to his grave as that of 'the warrior,' and suggests him
to have been engaged in the Stuart wars, more especially
as it is stated on the tombstone that he died in 1741,
at the very advanced age of 85 ; he had four brothers,
whose descendants are yet established in and about
Ennis. In 1678, a William Lysaght, possibly the
above Lieutenant, obtained a grant of 800 acres in
the Baronies of Bunratty, Tulla, and Inchiquin in
the County of Clare, by a patent in which he is ex-
pressly described as the son of a Patrick Lysaght.
The daughters and co-heiresses of this William were
married as before mentioned, ante, p. 84. Besides
this Lieutenant, a Thomas ' Lycett ' held the same
rank in Colonel Carroll's Dragoons.

In the before mentioned churchyard of Ballyclogh,
County of Cork, is a handsome monument to the
memory of the above John Lysaght, styled of Mount-
north, Lord Lisle, and to his wife Catherine, who

died before him. In the year 1780, another John

Lysaght, styled of Brick-hill, died at Mallow; he was
the father of the facetious Barrister of a past gene-
ration,— Ned Lysaght.

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337

LIEUTENANT JOSEPH FURLONG.

This family was one of the earliest English colonists
of the County of Wexford, where they settled in the
neighbourhood of Roscarlan. On the Patent Rolls of
1346, David Furlong is mentioned as then a landed
proprietor there ; it would seem indeed he was the
mitred Abbot of the noble monastery of Dunbrody,
whose remains, after a lapse of centuries, are still
strikingly interesting. About his time a Carmelite
House was founded and endowed at Hoartown, in the
same County, by a Furlong. In the Parliament of
1585, Patrick Furlong was one of the Representatives
of the borough of Wexford ; and at the Supreme Council
of Kilkenny, Mark Furlong, described as of Wexford,
was one of the Commons. This Mark, it would seem,
was the same gratefully named in the Declaration of
Royal gratitude of 1662, for subsequent services
1 beyond the seas.'

Besides this Lieutenant Joseph, James Furlong was
a Quarter-Master in Lord Tyrconnel's Horse. Yet
neither of the names appears in the Outlawries of
1691, which do mention David Furlong of Bannow,
Nicholas of Kilcavan, Michael of Brown-castle, and
Walter of Coole-Hall. The lands of the latter were
in 1703 purchased from the Trustees of the Forfeited
Estates by George Saville.

Ware, in his 'Writers of Ireland,' makes mention
of a White Furlong, born in Wexford, a student in

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Oxford, and subsequently a priest and author ; while
in later years Thomas Furlong of the same County
was a poet, whose talents, out of Ireland, might have
been encouraged into high repute. He was one of
the principal translators engaged in that national com-
pilation of Mr. Hardiman, " the Irish Minstrelsy," —
the songs of Carolan having been assigned for his trans-
lation. Dying in 1827, at the age of 33 years, he
was buried at Drumcondra, near the monument of
Francis Grose the Antiquarian.*

LIEUTENANT PATEICK HEHIE.

The Sept of OTIehir was in earliest time noticed as
territorially located at Magh-Adhair, a district of Clare
lying between Ennis and Tulla. In a battle fought
in 1094, at Fenagh, in the County of Leitrim, between
Eoderic O'Conor with his adherents of the Siol-Murry,
and the people of Thomond and West Connaught, in
which Eoderic was victorious, Aalaffe O'Hehir was
slain ; while the Four Masters notice at 1099 the
death of Donogh OTIehir, as then Lord of Magh-
Adhair. Soon after, however, this Sept were driven
hence by the Macnamaras, westward to Hy-Cormaic,
a tract lying between Slieve Callan and the town of
Ennis. *

The name does not appear on the Attainders of
1642, but the clause of Eoyal gratitude in the Act of

* DAlton's County of Dublin, p. 247

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Settlement includes Ensign Turlogh O'Hehir, de-
scribed as of Balame in that County. Adherents, as
this family were of the O'Briens, the present Army
List, besides the above Lieutenant Patrick, presents
Teigue O'Hehir, an Ensign in Colonel Charles
O'Bryan's Kegiment of Infantry ; while, still following
the fortunes of the dethroned Stuart under the
O'Bryan guidance, Captain Hehir was one of those in
Clare's Regiment of Dragoons, wounded at the battle of
Lauffield village in 1747.

LIEUTENANT RICHARD BEDFORD.

This Officer was of Ardclogh in the County of Wick-
low, as was also Thomas Bedford an Ensign in the
Earl of Tyrone's Infantry, and a Dennis Bedford
attainted at the same time, all of whom are described
in the Inquisitions for their outlawry as of this

locality. The name is of record in the Irish Rolls

of Chancery from Edward the First.

CORNET HUGH PERRY.

This name is not repeated on the Army List, nor does
it at all appear on the Attainders. It is traced in the
later records of Cork ; as that of 4 Pery ' is from an
earlier period in Limerick ; where, in the middle of
the last century, nourished the Right Honourable

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Edmund Sexton Pery, by whose influence that City
of the Sieges was, though not until the year 1760, de-
clared by government to be no longer a fortress ; and
its walls were thereupon levelled, new approaches
made to it, and a new bridge and spacious quays were
constructed.

CORNET NICHOLAS AECHDEKIN.

This name is traceable in the Local and Family Hist-
ory of the Counties of Gal way and Kilkenny, from a
very early period, and subsequently in Cork. Alured,
Prior of the House of Inistiogue, County of Kilkenny,
assigned in 1218 to the Abbey of St. Thomas of Dub-
lin, a moiety of the Churches of Kilcormack and Tul-
laghbarry, with which his house had been previously
. endowed by Stephen Archdekin, Knight ; who on this
occasion confirmed the transfer. In 1309, 'Maurice
le Ercedekne' had livery of his estates in Ireland, a
short time previous to which John le Ercedekne,
Maurice le Ercedekne, Sylvester and William le
Ercedekne were summoned, as ' Fideles ' of Ireland,
to the Scottish wars. And in 1435, John Archde-
kin, a citizen and merchant of Dublin, was permitted
to sue out a ' quietus ' from being thenceforth sum-
moned on Juries. In 1585, Eobert i Archdeacon' was
one of the Eepresentatives of Ennistiogue in Perrot's

Parliament. In King James's Charter of 1687, to

Kilkenny, John Archdekin, merchant, was one of the

clare's dragoons.

341

Aldermen ; John Archdekin, junior, merchant, She-
riff, and Peter Archdekin, Chamberlain. The aforesaid
Alderman John was in 1689 elected by this body
Mayor of their City.

Besides the above Nicholas, Redmond 'Archdeacon '
was a Lieutenant in Lord Galway's Infantry. The
former, according to the description on the Inquisi-
tion of Outlawry in 1691, was of the County of Cork,
yet he is shown on record to have been seized of lands
in Gal way, which were the subject of a marriage set-
tlement in 1699; while Redmond is styled on his
Attainder as of Tristane, County of Galway. There
were also attainted with them in 1691, James Arch-
deacon of Kilmosheer, Henry Archdeacon of the City
of Cork, merchant, and John Archdeacon of Monks-
town, in the same County, at which latter place the
castle was erected by one of said John's progenitors.

CORNET THOMAS CLANCHY.

The Mac Clanchys were a Sept of the Dal-Cassian
stock, hereditary Brehons or Judges of Thomond,
under the O'Bryans its Princes ; while another family
of the name were Lords of Dartry and Rosclogher, in
West Brefney (Leitrim). The Declaration of Royal
gratitude in 1662, for ' services beyond the seas,' in-
cludes Captain Murtough Clanchy of Castlekeale,
County of Clare ; while on this Army List, besides

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Cornet Thomas, John 6 Clancy ' was a Lieutenant in
the Royal Infantry.

The Attainders of 1691 name Murtough and
James Clancy of Knocklane, Beetum Clancy of Cor-
ringer, and Boetius Clancy of Glancun, all in the
County of Clare. At the Court of Chichester House
in 1700, Connor Clancey claimed a freehold in a small
estate of Lord Clare ; — allowed.

QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM HAWFORD.

This surname, probably identical with Harford, is not
found again on the List, nor at all on the Attainders.
A family of the latter spelling existed in the County
of Dublin in the last century.

QUARTER-MASTER EDMUND BOHILLY.

The Milesian surname of O'Bohilly, O'Bohill, O'Boyle,
is of early record, as well on the native annals as on
the Rolls of the Irish Chancery. In 1099, Canlam-
rach O'Boyle was Bishop of Armagh, as was Cineath
O'Boyle of Clogher in 1135. In 1301, during the
vacancy of the See of Cashel, the King presented
John O'Boghill to the Vicarage of Calveston, within
that Diocese ; while in 1318 Dionysius O'Boghill sued
out a patent for pardon and protection, and in 1597

* Rolls in Cane. Hib.

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Niall O'Boyle was Bishop of Eaplioe. Of the particu-
lar individual, however, here in commission, nothing-
has been ascertained, nor of his family.

QUAETEB-MASTEB JAMES O'DEA.

This Sept possessed the territory in the County of
Clare now known as the Parish of Dysart, in the
Barony of Inchiquin, and within it had many castles,
of which some ruins still remain. Branches of the
family had also settled in Cork and Tipperary. So
early as 1151 the Four Masters record that when at
Moinmore, a place which lies between Cork and the
Blackwater, a battle was fought to establish the right
to the sovereignty of Minister, (claimed as vested
in the O'Brien succession), no less than nine of the
Sept of O'Dea were slain. Again, in 1318 occurred
the battle of Dysart-O'Dea, where Sir Eobert de Clare
was slain by Conor O'Dea, the warlike Prince of
Cineal-Fermain,* a country of ancient Thomond in
the County of Clare. In 1415, Dionysius O'Dea,
precentor in the Cathedral of Limerick, sued out a
licence to absent himself from his dignity for five
years, and place himself in the schools of Oxford or
Cambridge, receiving there, however, during that in-
terval, the profits of his precentorship :f he was subse-

* Vallancey's Collect. Hib. vol. 1, p. 617.
t Rot. Pat. 2 Hen. 5, in Cane. Hib.

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quently raised to the See of Ossory. Cornelius O'Dea
died Bishop of Limerick in 1426, while another Cor-
nelius O'Dea was the first Prelate appointed to the
See of Killaloeby Henry VIII. in 1546 ; his predeces-
sor, James O'Corren, having then resigned " for the
sake of retirement and living private."* At the
Court of Chichester House, John O'Dea was a claim-
ant for a freehold in Clare, on Lord Clare's confisca-
tions ; — allowed.

REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

COLONEL SIMON LUTTRELL's.

Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter-Masters.

The Colonel.

Lieut. -Colonel.
Edward Moclare,

Major.
Oliver Grace.

Charles Geoghegan. Charles Lucas. Adam Kennigs.
Conn Geoghegan. Christopher Quinn. Thomas Bourke.
Thomas Ducken- Henry Morley. Christopher Tyrrell,
field.

Sir Edward Tyrrell. John Perkins.

COLONEL SIMON LUTTRELL.

An Inquisition taken in 1687 finds that Thomas Lut-
trell of Luttrelstown died about fourteen years pre-

* Ware's Bishops.

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vious, seized of upwards of 2,500 acres in the County
of Dublin, with the Eectories of Clonsillagh, Duna-
bate, and Knockraddy, and that this Simon Luttrell
was his son and heir ; and as so much has been
written of the Luttrell family, ante, p. 189, &c, the
notices here shall be confined to him. When Tyrcon-
nel repaired to Cork to receive King James on his
landing, this Simon (who had previously, as before
mentioned, ante, p. 61, been the Lieutenant-Colonel
of the Hon. Thomas Newcomen's Infantry), was
appointed Governor of Dublin, with an adequate Gar-
rison.* Such he continued to be when James
made his entry into that City ; and, in the Parlia-
ment convened there immediately after, he repre-
sented the County of Dublin. In June, 1690, when
James heard that his rival was marching to confront
him, he committed Dublin to the more especial charge
of Colonel Simon Luttrell, intending himself to pene-
trate northwards to Dundalk, preserving the harvest
of the County of Louth behind him.f After the de-
feat at the Boyne, when Berwick collected a body of
the routed Army at Brazeel, near Swords, King
James at his instance sent out from Dublin six troops
of this Colonel's Dragoons, to cover the Duke's retreat
into the City. He afterwards, when determined to
fly from Ireland, ordered this Officer to march to
Leixlip with all the forces in town, except two troops
of his own Regiment of Horse, of which this Army

* Clarke's Mem. Jac. 2, v. 2, p. 378.
t D'Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 316.

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List affords no details, but which he kept to attend
upon himself if necessitated to fly.* After the de-
parture of his Sovereign, however, Colonel Simon,
true to the interest of the self-exiled James, returned
to Dublin, and did not retire from the trust which
had been reposed in him, until dusk.f (A Narcissus
Luttrel, it may be remarked, was about this time in
King William's service,J while a Spottiswode Luttrel
commanded an independent troop for James after the
Boyne §) When the Irish party at Limerick, opposed
to Tyrconnel, despatched their deputation to the King
at St. Germains, Colonel Simon was associated therein,
as before mentioned, p. 54.

He was attainted in 1691, as were also his wife,
and Thomas Luttrell described as of Luttrelstown,
and Robert Luttrel of Simonstown, County of Kil-
dare. That wife, Katherine, became a widow before
the sitting of the Court of Claims in 1700, where she
preferred a memorial for her jointure off his estates in
the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, which was
allowed her ; while his brother, Colonel Henry,
claimed an estate tail therein ; but his petition was
postponed, as pending already before Parliament.
Margaret Luttrel, spinster, also sought and was
allowed a remainder for years in Meath lands of said
Colonel Simon. By the Articles of Limerick it was

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 402.
f O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 358.
% Kawdon Papers, p. 419.
§ Singers Correspondence, v. 2, p. 514.

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agreed that this Simon Luttrell, together with Mau-
rice Eustace of Yeomanstown, and Chevers of

Mayestown, commonly called 4 Viscount Leinster,' (who
are stated then to belong to the Regiments in the
garrisons and quarters of the Irish Army beyond the
seas, sent thither upon the affairs of their respective
Eegiments, or of the Army in general), should have
the benefit thereof, provided they returned within
eight months, submitted to King William's govern-
ment, and took the oath of allegiance.* Simon did
not, however, avail himself of this proffered amnesty ;
but, remaining in France, became there Colonel of
the 4 Queen's Regiment of Guards,' of which Francis
Wauchop was Lieutenant-Colonel, and James O'Brien
Major.f He died in September, 1698, as recorded
on his monument in the Chapel of the Irish College
at Paris, and left no issue to represent him.J
O'Conor commemorates him as an Officer of great in-
tegrity, who followed faithfully the fortune of King
James, and forfeited his estates in that cause. The
same historian says that at the battle of Marsiglia, in
1693, his Lieutenant-Colonel, at the head of 2,600
Irishmen, was posted in the centre of Catinat's line,
and that in assuring this victory, these Irish had a
principal share; their leader, Wauchop, however, fell
on the field. §

* Harleian MSS. v. 7, p. 490.

f Fitzgerald's Limerick, v. 2, p. 374.

I O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 203.

§ O'Conor's Military Memoirs, v. 1, pp. 219, 222.

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In 1696, Colonel Simon Luttrell's glebe land was
granted to Walter Delamer in trust,* while several im-
propriate Kectories and Tithes, of which he had been
seized, were granted by the Commissioners to the Trus-
tees for augmenting poor livings, &c. ; and at Chiches-
ter House in 1700, many claims were preferred and
some allowed affecting his lands in the Counties of
Dublin, Kildare, and Meath, and his house property
in Dublin City.

MAJOR EDWARD MOCLARE.

The Moclares were a family very widely spread over
Tipperary in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It does
not appear, however, of what County this Major was
a native ; while in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry
John Moclare was a Captain, and James Moclare an
Ensign. The Attainders of 1691 present the names
of James Moclare, Knight, of Dublin ; and a Jeffry
' Mockler ' was the forfeiting occupant of lands in the
Barony of Tulla, County of Clare, which were claimed
in 1703, and allowed to be the estate in fee of Sir
Arthur Gore, then a minor.

CAPTAIN THOMAS DUCKENFIELD.

This Officer is described in the Inquisition of At-
tainder as of Longwood, County of Meath ; as is also

* Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 260.

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a Loftus Duckenfield who was attainted at the same
time. The name no otherwise occurs on this Army
List, or in the Attainders. Captain Thomas appears
to have been the son of Colonel William Duckenfield,
by Elinor, daughter of Sir Dudley Loftus of Killyan,
who after his decease married Sir Edward Tyrrell of
Lynn, the next Captain in this Regiment. The
early ancestry of this family is to be traced in Che-
shire, where it enjoyed the honor of a Baronetcy.

CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD TYRRELL.

Hugh De Lacy, the great Palatine of Meath, in his
settlement of that ' Kingdom,' as it was then yet
designated, gave Castleknock and its lands accounted
therein to his namesake Hugh Tyrrell, whose descend-
ants were hence long after styled Barons of Castle-
knock, In 1302, Gerald Tyrrell and Richard Tyrrell
were two of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland, whose military
services were sought by King Edward for the war in
Scotland. When, in fifteen years after, Edward
Bruce led his rash invasion into Ireland, in his south-
ward march he encamped before Castleknock, and
took the Baron and his Lady prisoners, until soon
after ransomed.* The last Lord of this ancient line
was Hugh Tyrrell, in 1485 ; and, on his death with-
out issue male, the inheritance passed to Christopher

* D'Alton's Hist. Dub. p. 557.

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Barnewall and John Burnell, who had respectively
married the daughters and co-heiresses of the Chief.

During Tyrone's rebellion in 1597, a Captain Tyr-
rell was sent into Leinster by the ' insurgents,' with a
troop of five hundred men to excite disaffection in
that Province ; " a son of Lord Trimleston was de-
tached with 1,000 men to attack him and his party;
but the experience and address of the rebel leader
supplied the deficiency of his numbers, he gave the
royalists a total defeat, and sent their young
commander a prisoner to O'Neill.* In 1600, the
same Tyrrell it would seem was an active adherent of
Desmond in the Munster war. He it was who
defended the Castle of Cape Clear, and consequently,
in the Instruction given for the prosecution of the
war in Munster, 1 Tyrrel ' is mentioned as one of the
L capital rebels' whom his Lordship (the President)
must lose no exertion to take, alive or dead. A
Funeral Entry of 1636, in the Office of Arms, records
the death of Edward Tyrrell of Caverstown, County
of Westmeath, (second son of Edward Tyrrell of do.,
eldest son and heir of Eichard Tyrrell of same place);
adding that he married Honora, daughter of John
Tyrrell of Clonmoyle in said County, by whom he
had three sons ; Richard, as yet unmarried, and two
others who died so ; that said Edward took to his se-
cond wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Eustace of
Clongowes Wood, by whom he had a daughter — dead.
His third wife was Amy, daughter of Richard Sutton

* Leland's Ireland, vol. 2, p. 354.

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of Richardstown, County of Kildare ; by whom he
had one son James. Said first-mentioned Edward
Tyrrell died 11th May, 1636, and was buried at
Castlelost, County of Westmeath. The Attainders of
1642 comprise the names of Henry Tyrrell of
Killussy, County of Kildare ; Peter Tyrrell of Ath-
boy, merchant ; and Thomas Tyrrell of do., with
many others of the name in Westmeath.* In the
same year Colonel Monk, afterwards celebrated as the
Duke of Albemarle, took Castleknock and put many
of the garrison to the sword; but in November, 1647,
Owen Roe O'Neill retook this old fortress from the
Republicans. In this latter year, Thomas Tyrrell of
Kilbride was of" the Supreme Council at Kilkenny ;
he was therefore, in Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted
from pardon for life and estate ; but, by the Act of
Explanation in 1665, was restored to his seat and
three thousand acres.

In particular reference to this Captain Sir Edward
Tyrrel, the Earl of Clarendon, writing to the Earl of
Rochester, says, " On Saturday last in the evening,
one Mr. Edward Tyrrell of the County of Meath
brought me the King's letter for creating him a Baro-
net. He is a very old man, and it were to be
wished His Majesty had good accounts of men before
he conferred marks of honor upon them, which he

* On the Westmeath Forfeitures of this Civil war and the
several patentees thereof, the Book of Survey and Distribution
in that County has been recently copied, compared, and
printed, to the extent of 126 folios, beautifully executed by John
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may very easily have if he pleaseth, and still do what he
has a mind to. This gentleman's father was a law-
yer and a Roman Catholic ; what religion he was of
in the time of the Usurper nobody can tell, but he
was employed by them to make a Survey of the
County of Meath, which he did most exactly ; therein
discovering all the secrets with which he was
entrusted. His estate was very small. This gentle-
man has much improved it, as he says that he bought
of new title from soldiers, adventurers, and c 49 1 in-
terest, to the value of about £700 per annum ; of
which it is said he owes £5,000, and is incumbered
with variety of lawsuits He is of any or no re-
ligion, sometimes a Roman Catholic, sometimes a
Protestant."* In the Parliament of 1689, this in-
dividual sat as one of the Representatives for the
Borough of Belturbet, and there appear of his name,
and possibly kindred, on this Army List, John
Tyrrell, a Captain in the King's Own Foot ; Walter
Tyrrell in Fitz-James's ; and Simon ' Turrill,' a Lieu-
tenant in Colonel Robert Clifford's Dragoons. On
the 7th of April, 1690, King James, 'reposing great
trust and confidence in the honesty and diligence,
care and circumspection of our trusty and well-
beloved Sir Edward Tyrrell,' appointed him supervisor
of the Counties of Cork, Waterford, and Kerry ; with
powers to prevent or punish frauds, neglects, and mis-
demeanours there ; " to preserve our woods, houses,
and parks, and to view our fortifications within the

* Singer's Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, &c, v. 1, p. 383.

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same, and execute all necessary repairs."* In the
King's ecclesiastical appointments of 4th June, 1690,
Doctor Philip Tyrrell was one of those whom His
Majesty presented to the Rectories of Lynn and
Moylesker in the County of Westmeath ; while Doc-
tor John Tyrrell was at the same time presented to
those of Kilmetsan and Galtoon, and another John
Tyrrel to the Eectory of Eathconnel, all in said
County, f It may be observed that amongst the
Roman Catholic Prelates, whom King James immedi-
ately after his accession recommended to the protec-
tion of the Earl of Clarendon, were Doctor Patrick
Tyrrell, R.C. Bishop of Clogher and Kilmore, with
Doctor Dominick Maguire, the R.C. Primate of
Armagh, and the other Irish Roman Catholic Pre-
lates. The first Doctor Tyrrell was Secretary to Lord
Tyrconnel, and amongst papers of his that were taken
by King William's party, was that Lord's 1 occult ono-
matographie,' to which was a key on a separate sheet,
in which Ireland was designated Barbadoes, &c.J

There were of this name attainted in 1691, the
above Captain Edward of Longwood, Baronet, with
nine of the name in the County of Westmeath, and
three in other parts of the country. § At the Court of

* Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 143.

f De Burgo, Hib. Dom. p. 20.

} Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 183.

§ Hitherto the ' Illustrations ' in this Work have been
extended to details, which it is thought prudent henceforth to
abridge as above. In cases, where no particular interest has
been evinced, they might be only irksome to the public at large.

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Claims, Gabriel Tyrrell claimed an estate tail especial
in County of Westmeath lands forfeited by Francis
Tyrrell, but bis petition was dismist ; as was also a
claim of Eicbarcl Tyrrel for a remainder of 41 years
leasehold, in the lands forfeited by Sir Edward Tyrrell.
The witness to this conveyance was Thomas Ducken-
field, probably the preceding Captain. The daughter
of this Sir Edward was a Protestant, and, marrying
Sir John Edgeworth, another Protestant, Longwood
passed into the latter family, in which it remained
unaffected by the penal laws.

LIEUTENANT CHARLES LUCAS.

This Officer seems to have been akin to another
Charles Lucas, the nephew of Sir Charles Lucas who
was shot in 1648, by the Parliament army, on the sur-
render of Colchester. This nephew was ennobled by
the title of Lord Lucas, had a pension of £500 per
ann. on the Establishment of 1687-8, and was, by
warrant of the Lords assembled at Guildhall, Decem-
ber 11th, 1688, the day before James the Second fled
from the palace of Whitehall, appointed Constable of
the Tower of London. In 1661, Edward Lucas, who
seems to have been of the Monaghan lineage, was ap-
pointed a Sub-Commissioner for putting in execution
the King's Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland ;
while in later years flourished in Ireland a namesake
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commemorated by a fine marble statue in the Royal
Exchange, now the Town-hall of Dublin.

LIEUTENANT HENRY MORLEY,
CORNET ADAM KENNING S,
CORNET JOHN PERKINS.

None of these names is repeated on the Army List,
nor noted in the Outlawries of 1691. A family of
the ' Morleys ' had been settled at Feltrim, in the
County of Dublin ; and in the minutes of the Courts-
martial held by the Usurping Power in 1651, &c,
appears the name of Humphrey Morley, tried at Naas

on the 27th October, 1652. A family of the name

of Perkins was about the same time settled at Ath-
boy.

REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

COLONEL ROBERT CLIFFORD'S.

Captains.
The Colonel.
Alexander McKenzie

Lieut.-Col.
Conn ell Ferrall.
Henry Crofton.
Terence Coghlan.
Miles D'Alton.
James Fitzgerald.
Simon Wyer.
John Mackewy.

Lieutenants.

Constantine O'Con-
nor.

Carberry Bryan.
Myles M'Dermott.
Robert Cusack.
Simon Terrill.
William Clifford.

Thomas Burton.

Cornets.

Quarter- M asters.

Christopher Ferrall.
John Crofton,

William Smith,
Henry Clifford.

Christoph
gerald.

Fits-

Daniel Griffin.

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COLONEL ROBERT CLIFFORD.

The name of De Clifford is traced on Irish records from
the time of Henry the Third. In 1227, Simon Clif-
ford granted an annuity of forty shillings (no very
small sum at the time) to the Abbey which he had
refounded at Durrow, in the King's County. The
religious house which previously existed there had
been dilapidated by Sir Hugh de Lacy, as before
mentioned, in 1175. In 1282, William de Clifford
was Bishop of Emly ; and in 1374, Sir Thomas Clif-
ford was summoned to a Parliament held in Dublin.
In 1597, Sir Conyers Clifford was governor of Con-
naught; and in 1600, Sir Alexander Clifford had the
command of 150 men in the Munster war. Story, in
his Impartial History, alluding to the movements of
King William's army, relates that on the 31st Decem-
ber, 1690, three Regiments of the Irish, coming down
to the Shannon at the Connaught side near Lanes-
borough, " Colonel Clifford and the other Irish officers
drank healths over to our men, and those on our side
returned the compliment." In May, 1691, says the
same historian, Captain Johnston, at the head of 100
men, surprised near Ballinamona in the King's County
two troops of Clifford's Dragoons and a party of Lord
Merrion's Horse. In three months after, at the time
of the death of Tyrconnel, as Harris suggests,* the
Irish began to be jealous of Brigadier Clifford, (as in
truth they had some reason) but, in consequence of

* Life of King Will. 3, p. 337.

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the disunion among the principal officers, he was
continued in the command of 1,500 horse to guard
the passes of the Shannon ; and in confirmation of the
justice of that jealousy, the writer adds that " when
the besiegers had finished a bridge into the island of
Limerick, and Colonel Matthews' (Williamite) Dra-
goons began to pass over it, Brigadier Clifford was
posted near the place of passage with four Regiments
of Dragoons, who did not seem very forward, though
they marched down on foot and pretended to give

opposition He was of the moderate party who

were inclined to put an end to the war."* Colonel
0 'Kelly, in reference to this inertness, states circum-
stances which clearly establish that Clifford, if innocent
of treachery, was at least guilty of unpardonable
neglect.f "He (says the Colonel) was an Irishman by
birth, his grandfather being of a noble family in Eng-
land who came to Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's days ;
he professed the Roman Catholic religion ; was vain,
of shallow parts, of no great conduct ; and, though it
cannot be positively averred he was a traitor, yet it
was not prudent in Sarsfield to entrust him with such
a post, as he knew him to be a creature of Tyrconnel's,
to be malcontent, and very unfortunate in all his
undertakings ; and Sarsfield was earnestly desired,
on the morning before that fatal night, by O'Kelly
himself (as the Colonel relies), for whose opinion he
always seemed to have a great value, either to come

* Life of King Will. 3, p. 346.
t Excid. Mao. p. 151, &c.

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in person from Limerick to command at those passes,
or, if he could not come himself, to send Wauchop
thither ; otherwise that the enemy would come over
and besiege the town on both sides ; but there was
some fatality in the matter."

The Earl of Westmeath (whose Regiment of In-
fantry is hereafter alluded to), writing to Harris, the
compiler of the Life of William the Third, on 22nd
August, 1749, further confirms by his experience
Clifford's great neglect: — "This Brigadier commanded
where the bridge was laid over, and by a very great
neglect he made no opposition to it. He was for
that neglect confined in the Castle [of Limerick], and
I believe, if the Articles were not made, he must of
course be condemned by a Court Martial. I had a
Regiment of Horse, and we were encamped on a
mountain within three miles of the bridge, and the
body consisted of 3,000 horse commanded by General
Sheldon ; and, on his hearing an account of G-inkle's
having laid a bridge over the Shannon, and that a
great number both of Horse and Foot had passed it,
he marched with the Horse to Sixmilebridge, which
we passed, and marched the next day to Clare, where

we remained till we made Articles."* After the

Capitulation, Clifford was particularly active in en-
deavouring to bring over the Irish soldiers to the
English service,! and his own Regiment is represented
as having exhibited the most numerous defections to

* Excidium Macariae, p. 481.
t O'Conor's Milit, Mem, p. 188.

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the new interest. His Attainder bears date 11th
May, 1691, and he is thereon described as Robert
Clifford of Dublin, Esq.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDER MAC
KENZIE.

Nothing has been ascertained of this evidently Scotch
officer, though information has been sought from the
Baronet of Coul, in Rosshire, of whose ancestry it is
conjectured he was.

CAPTAIN CONNELL FERRALL.

The Principality of this illustrious Irish Sept was
Annaly, covering a large portion of the present County
of Longford ; and, from the earliest use of surnames
in Ireland, the achievements, succession, and obits of
their Tanists or Captains, the many religious houses
they founded, and the castles they erected, are
recorded in the native annals. They have been
Bishops and Abbots of the highest rank, and, although
located on the debateable borders of the Pale, have
intermarried with the noblest houses of the English
Settlers. The Four Masters relate that Gildas O'Fer-
ral, leader of the Annaly Sept, Chief Arbitrator of
Ireland, died in 1141 at an advanced age. In 1203,
Amalgaid O'Ferral, then Abbot of Deny, was elected

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Abbot of Iona. Later in this century the O'Ferrals
founded Abbey-shrule for Cistercian monks, and the
friary of Ballynasaggard for Franciscans : both es-
tablishments being in the present County of Longford.
In 1299, Florence O'Ferral died Bishop of Emly,
and 'left behind him a great reputation for his alms-
deeds, hospitality, and other good works.,* In 1314,
Geffrey O'Ferral of 1 Montravy ' was summoned by
King Edward to the Scottish war. In 1347, Owen
O'Ferral succeeded to the See of Ardagh, as did Char-
les O'Ferral in 1373. In 1400, the noble Dominican
Friary of Longford was founded by the Chief, in
which Cornelius O'Ferral, who died Bishop of Ardagh
in 1424, was buried. In 1486, William O'Ferrall,
himself the Dynast of Annaly, was Bishop of Ardagh,
and continued to discharge the double duties of the
prelacy and the Chiefry . f In 1 5 4 1 , Richard O'Ferrall,
Abbot of Larha and Dynast of Annaly, had a similar
charge of the Diocese of Ardagh. In 1565, Sir
Henry Sidney first erected 'Annaly of the O'Ferralls'
into the Shire of Longford. In 1583, Lysach O'Fer-
ral, a conformist, obtained the See of Ardagh from
Queen Elizabeth ; and in 1587, Thady O'Ferral was
Bishop of Clonfert. Two years previously, in Per-
rot's Parliament, the sept was represented by the
Captains of two diverging lines ; viz. William, son of
Donal, son of Cormac O'Ferrall ; and Fachtna, son of
Bryan, son of Eoderic, son of Cathal O'Ferrall ; yet

* Ware's Bishops, p. 271. f Idem, p. 254.

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both their territories were soon after included in the
plantation scheme of James the First, and an enquiry
was directed to ascertain the extent of their estates.
This measure almost wholly cast the Sept out of their
old territory ; and in 1610, by the marriage of Amy,
daughter of Cormac OTerral, with Captain George
Lane, a portion passed to that family, the grandson of
which marriage was the first Viscount Lanesborough.

The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Ge-
rald 0' < Farrel,' of Kill, Clerk ; Dionysius Ferrel, of
Kildrought, County of Kildare ; and Nicholas Farrel
of Kill, merchant. Amongst the Confederate Catho-
lics who were assembled at Kilkenny in 1647,
were Donel O'Ferrall of Enniscorthy, Fergus O'Fer-
rall of Bleamclogher, and Francis O'Ferrall of
Moate. Colonel Richard O'Ferrall was then a dis-
tinguished officer in the service of Owen Roe O'Neill.
The Declaration of Royal gratitude, for services be-
yond the seas, includes Captain Gerald Ferrall, Ensign
John Ferrall, Colonel Lewis O'Ferrall, Sir Connell
Ferrall of Tirlickin, County of Longford (who seems
to be identical with the above Captain Connell), with
Charles Ferrall, and Francis Ferrall of Mornin in the
same County. Besides the above Captain Connell
Ferrall, there are on this Army List Fergus Farrell a
Captain in Colonel Richard Nugent's Infantry, and
Gerald Farrell a Lieutenant, and Fergus Farrell an
Ensign in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's (late Colonel Iriell
Farrell's). In the Parliament of 1689, Roger and
Robert Ferrall were the Representatives of the County
of Longford, as was another Roger Ferrall one of

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those for Lanesborough. The above Captain Connell
(or more correctly, it would seem, Sir Connell Ferrall)
was early advanced to be a Lientenant-Colonel ; and
he, as Mackenzie relates, was in 1688 ordered out
from Boyle, with the Dartry Irish to the number of
four or five hundred, to oppose the Enniskilleners.
He was afterwards killed at the siege of Deny, as
was also a Captain Ferrall.*

The Attainders of 1691 present the names of eight
of the Sept in the County of Longford, and one in
each of the Counties of Westmeath, Roscommon,
Tyrone, and the City of Dublin ; and at Chiches-
ter House many claims were made as attaching on
the Longford estates of O'Ferralls ; they are, however,
too numerous to detail here. On the 10th of July,
1703, the Duke of Marlbro' wrote to the Duke of
Ormond, in regard to an officer of this name, " I give
your Grace this trouble at the request of my old ac-
quaintance Brigadier 1 Offarel though falling now
under your Grace's government, I cannot but recom-
mend him to your protection ; and pray that as he
may have occasion to apply himself to your Grace,
you will please to afford him your favourable counte-
nance, as well on account of his own merit as for the
sake of your Grace's, &. &c. Marlbro'. f Diana,
daughter of this Brigadier, married Francis, after-
wards created Earl of Effingham, from which union
this noble house has sprung.

* Mac Kenzie's Siege of Derry, p. 17.

t Murray's Marlborough Despatches, v. 1, p. 136.

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The notice of this Sept cannot be closed without
expressing a regret, that the compiler has in vain
sought the free inspection of a ' Diary ' of the above
Brigadier, where it is known to exist.

CAPTAIN HENRY CROFTON.

In 1606, Edward Crofton had a grant from the Crown
of several rectories, vicarages, priories, tithes,
and lands in the Counties of Sligo and Roscommon.
He is described in the patent as Edward, " son of
John Crofton of Connaught." His grandson and
namesake, Edward Crofton of Moate, was created a
Baronet, and married Mary, daughter of the justly
venerated Sir James Ware. The above Captain
Henry Crofton was Sheriff of the County of Sligo in
1687, and one of its Representatives in the Parlia-
ment of 1689. He was attainted in 1691, and from
him is lineally descended the present Sir Malby
Crofton, Baronet, who represents the elder branch of
this family in Ireland. Another Henry Crofton was
Captain in the Earl of Clanricarde's Infantry, and
seems to have been the Captain Henry adjudged
within the Articles of Limerick. The Attainders of
1691, besides this Captain Henry, name John Crof-
ton, described as of Ruppagh, County of Mayo.

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CAPTAIN TERENCE COGHLAN.

The Sept of Mac Coghlan was one of those eligible to
the dignity of Kings of Leinster, and at a very
remote period was possessed of Dealbhna Eathra, the
present Barony of Garry castle in the King s County.
The ruins of seven castles in that County attest their
former importance there. In 1134, say the Four
Masters, died Aodh (Hugh), grandson of Loughlin
Mac 4 Cochlan,' Lord of Dealbhna Eathra, as did
Eandall Mac Coghlan the Chief in 1187, and Mur-
rough Mac Coghlan in 1199. In 1213, Melaghlin
Mac Coghlan, 4 Prince of Dealbhna,' died on pilgrim-
age at the Abbey of Kilbeggan. In 1386, Conor
Mac Coghlan died the Chief. John Mac Coughlan
was Bishop of Clonmacnoise in 1427. In 1520, died
Turlough, son of Phelim Mac Coghlan, the Lord of
Delvin, by whom the Castles of Feadan and Kincora
were erected. In the following year the Masters
record a 4 dividing of Delvin, by the authority of Mel-
aghlin and O'Carroll, between Ferdoragh, the son of
the last Mac Coghlan, and his relative Cormac ;' and,
on the death of this Ferdoragh in 1535, ' Phelim, son
of Meyler Mac Coghlan, took his place.' Cormac, the
tanist of a moiety, died in the preceding year, and in
his line the Chieftaincy appears to have been recog-
nised; at least, on the convening of the Irish Septs
in Perrot's Parliament, this was represented by John,
son of Art, son of Cormac Mac Coghlan. In Decem-
ber, 1641, the Marquis of Clanricarde accused the

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O'Mulloys, Coghlans, Geoghegans, &c, of passing out
of the King's County and preying over that of
Galway. In the following year, however, he made
especial mention of Terence Coghlan, then proprietor
of Kilcolgan in the former County, as ' a person of
great worth and ability,' — 4 whom himself confidenti-
ally employed ;' 'a gentleman of very good parts

and ability, and of a disposition and integrity suit-
able thereto.' The Outlawries of 1642 include John
Coghlan of Wicklow, Dermod Mac-Teigue Coghlan of
Long Island, County of Cork ; and Donough Mac-
Teigue 0' Coghlan of do. In the Assembly of Confed-
erate Catholics (1647), the Reverend Charles Cogh-
lan was an active member ; he was Vicar-General of
the Diocese of Leighlin ; while John and Terence
Coghlan were of the Commons in that meeting. The
latter individual appears identical with this Captain,
who also sat in the Parliament of 1689 as Represent-
ative for the Borough of Banagher. The Royal
Declaration of gratitude, embodied in the Act of Set-
tlement for 4 services beyond the seas,' includes Lieu-
tenants Simon Coghlan and Francis Coghlan of Bel-
clare ; while the Act of Explanation, three years
afterwards, restored the latter, described as Francis
Coghlan of Kilcolgan, King's County, to his family
mansion and 2,000 acres, with a saving for Dame
Mary, widow of the above Terence, in lieu of her
jointure.

On this Army List, besides Captain Terence, John
' Mc Coghlan ' was a Captain in Lord Galway's

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Infantry, and Cornelius Coghlan a Lieutenant. In
Colonel Heward Oxburgh's, John Coghlan was a

Captain, and Edmund Coghlan an Ensign. In

King James's Parliament, Captain Terence and ano-
ther Terence Coghlan, probably his son, represented
Banagher ; and Joseph Coghlan was one of the Mem-
bers for Trinity College, Dublin ; but, according to Dr.
King, this latter having been a Protestant, would not
sit out the Acts of Attainder there passed. The
Attainders of 1691 include Captain Terence Coghlan,
four others of the County of Cork, two of the King's
County, one of the Queen's County, and one of
Limerick. Sundry claims were made at Chichester
House as affecting their confiscations, and some were
allowed.

In 1704, a private Act was passed to prevent the
disinheriting of Captain Garret Coghlan, and another
in 1706 for the relief of Captain James Coghlan and
Felix Coghlan, the surviving Protestant sons of John
Coghlan, Esq., they having petitioned for such relief
in regard to some defects in the Act of 1704. In
1746, Quarter-Master Coghlan was one of the prison-
ers taken on board the Bourbon by Commodore
Knowles.*

It is said that the last Eepresentative of note of
this ancient family was Thomas Mac Coghlan, who was
one of the Members for Banagher in the Irish Parlia-
ment, and died in 1790. In the year 1828, however,
died in London Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Cogh-
lan, who had been Governor of Chester ; and his

* Gent. Mag. vol. 16, p. 145.

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obituary states him to have been second son of the
late Mr. James Coghlan of Cloghan in the King's
County, by Miss Hearne of Hearnesbrook, County of
Galway. The notice adds that a remnant of about
£7,000 per aim. of the family property is now vested
in the Honorable Frederic Ponsonby, to whom it
came in the maternal line of inheritance. This Officer,
(Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund) was buried in St.
James's Church, his only son and his brother Colonel
Andrew Coghlan being the chief mourners, and a
number of the Members of the United Service Club
attending the obsequies. In six years after, died at
Brighton Lieutenant-G-eneral Roger Coghlan, who
commenced his career in the Connaught Rangers in
1779 ; he accompanied that Regiment to Jamaica, and
was afterwards in the 60th at Nova Scotia ; then in the
66th, in the 134th, and the 82nd ; on which last oc-
casion he obtained the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in
1796, and in 1819 the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel.

CAPTAIN MILES D'ALTON.

The tradition of the introduction of this family from
France to Ireland, as preserved in the Office of Arms,
records Walter D'Alton to have been its founder ;
that he secretly married a daughter of Louis, King of
France, and, having thereby incurred this Monarch's
displeasure, fled to England, whence he passed with
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early acquired possessions in the Western portion of
Meath, where he and his descendants founded religi-
ous houses and erected castles.

In 1328, the English forces, including the D'Altons
(who from the time of their settling in Western Meath
were the chief bulwark of the Pale in that direction),
sustained a dreadful defeat near Mullingar ; when,
according to the Four Masters, 3,500 of their army,
■ together with the D'Altons,' were slain. At the
siege of Calais in 1346, under the gallant English
King, Robert D'Alton was one of his Knights ; while
in the Parliament of Westminster, in 1376, William
D'Alton sat as one of the Kepresentatives of the
County of Cork.* The district, however, where the
name was first planted, witnessed its extension so
widely, that, when in the time of Henry the Eighth,
(1545) the western portion of Meath was separated
and erected into a distinct County by the title of
Westmeath, a very large tract especially described as
4 the D'Alton's Country ' was, with that alias, consti-
tuted the Barony of Rathconrath. The D'Alton had
previously ranked as a Palatine Baron thereof, under
an early grant of that dignity from Hugh De Lacy ;
and he and his descendants adopted the fleur-de-lis
on ' their ' armorials, as in right of the daughter of
Louis. Throughout the centuries of this their resi-
dence in Ireland, they supported their rank and influ-
ence by alliances not only with the noble native
families, but likewise with the most illustrious of
Anglo-Norman descent ; while in the progress of time

* Leland's Ireland, v. 1, p. 396.

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members of the House branched into the Counties of
Kilkenny, Waterford, and Tipperary.

A Funeral Entry in the Office of Arms, Dublin,
records the death in July, 1636, of John D'Alton of
Dundonell, County of Westmeath, son and heir of
Hubert D'Alton, eldest son of Henry D' Alton, eldest
son of Edmund, eldest son of Henry, eldest son of
John, (all of Dundonell) eldest son of Pierce D'Alton
of Ballymore in said County, whose death, as son of
an elder Pierce, is attributed to the plague of 1467.
The first named John had married Elinor, daughter
of Gerald Dillon of Portlick in said County, by whom
he had five sons ; 1st. Garret, married to Margaret
Plunket of Loughcrew, County of Meath ; 2nd. Eich-
ard ; 3rd. Robert ; 4th. James ;* 5th. Thomas, un-
married. Said John, the defunct, was buried in
Churchtown. None of this name appear on the Out-
lawries of 1642, but many fell in the contests that
immediately preceded, and estates were then forfeited
in Westmeath by Oliver, Nicholas, Richard, Garret,
Henry, Edmund, John, Geofiry, Walter, Theobald,
and James Dalton, respectively. In 1662, Lieute-
nant Alexander D'Alton received the Royal thanks in
the Act of Settlement.

Besides this Myles, there are on the Army List

* It may be permitted to remark that this James, the fourth
son of John DAlton of Dundonell, married Mary or Margaret
Purdon, and was the great grandfather of the compiler of the
present volume. This single entry therefore suggests a retro-
spective pedigree of eleven generations for one, who is now the
only DAlton inheriting a fee-simple estate in the old barony.

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Walter D'Alton, (who appears to have been of the
family of Kildallon) a Lieutenant in the Eoyal Re-
giment of Infantry. In Colonel Henry Dillon's, two
John D'Altons were Captains, Richard a Lieutenant,
and a third John an Ensign. In Colonel John
Grace's, Walter 1 Daton ' and John D' Alton were
Lieutenants ; and in Sir Michael Creagh's, Richard
D'Alton was a Captain. One of these Officers, a
Captain D'Alton, was taken prisoner at the siege of
Athlone.* The Attainders of 1691 include the above
Captain Myles ' of Grangebeg, County of Westmeath,'
with seventeen others of the name in Westmeath,
three in Wexford, three in Kilkenny, and one in
Dublin. Of these outlaws, Christopher D'Alton of
Miltown, Major John D'Alton of Doneele, and
William his son, with Edward D'Alton of Cleg,
County of Wexford, were adjudged within the
Articles. At the Court of Claims, James D'Alton, then
a minor, by Walter Delamer, his guardian, claimed an
estate in fee in lands forfeited by Garret D'Alton.
Elizabeth D'Alton, widow, claimed dower off Doneele,
forfeited by Major John D'Alton ; Richard and Mary
D'Alton, minors, by Bryan Kelly their pivchain ami,
claimed a mortgage affecting County of Roscommon
estates, (including Lough-Giynn, &c.,) of Richard
D'Alton ; John Adams claimed an estate in fee in the

lands of Irishtown and Raheenquin forfeited by

D'Alton ; but his petition was disallowed.

In 1725, Thomas D'Alton was appointed Chief
Baron of the Irish Exchequer, in five years after

* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 108.

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which he died. Captain ' Daton' was one of those in
Kothe's Eegiment wounded in 1747, at the battle of
Lauffield, near Maestricht. Other members of the
family were distinguished in the services of foreign
states, and created Counts of the Holy Eoman Em-
pire ; as Count Richard D'Alton, the too memorable
agent of the Emperor Joseph in the oppressions of
Brabant ; and Major-General James D'Alton, Gover-
nor of Gratz, from which he removed to Brussels.
Christopher D'Alton of Grenanstown was Chamber-
lain and Colonel of the Guards to His Electoral High-
ness of Saxony, and died at Eichmond near Dublin,
in 1793 * Edward D'Alton brother of said Chris-
topher, was Chamberlain and Major-General in the
service of the Emperor of Austria. He was killed in
the trenches at Dunkirk, when in 1793 that town
was besieged by the Duke of York.

CAPTAIN SIMON WYEE.

He was attainted in 1691, as of Lea, Queen's
County ; James Wyer of Kilbeggan was then also
outlawed.

CAPTAIN JOHN MACKEWY.

This name does not otherwise occur in the Army
List, or at all on the Attainders.

* Anth. Hib. v. 2, p. 320.

BB 2

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LIEUTENANT THOMAS BURTON.

Neither is this name repeated on the Army List, nor
is it at all on the Attainders. Robert Burton was
Constable of Castle Mac-Kinnegan, County of Wick-
low, in 1309 ; soon after which William de Burton
was one of the Remembrancers of the Irish Exchequer.

A Lieutenant-Colonel 6 Burston ' was the Irish

Engineer when Ballymore was besieged by de Ginckle;
and on his death, he having been slain in the defence,
the garrison surrendered at discretion.*

QUARTER-MASTER DANIEL GRIFFIN.

A native Sept of the O'Griffin is traceable in the An-
nals of Ireland, while it would appear that the same
name, without the Milesian prefix, came early from
Pembrokeshire into this country.

In 1199, Daniel O'Griffin died Abbot of the Abbey
of Canons Regular of Roscommon. Matthew Fitz-
Griffin was summoned hence in 1220 to the war in
Britanny, and in 1257, say the Four Masters, Mac
Griffin, an illustrious Knight, was taken prisoner by
O'Donnell's people. In 1375, O'Molroney O'Griffin,
having made his submission to the English govern-
ment as Captain of his Sept, he and his three brothers
obtained liberty to use the English law ; about which
time Matthew 'Mac Griffin' founded a Priory for

* O'CallagWs Excid. Mac. p. 419.

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Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Tullylesk in the
County of Cork, which was afterwards united to that
of Kells (Kenlis) in the County of Kilkenny.* In
1398, John Griffin was appointed Bishop of Ossory,
as was Michael Griffin to be Chief Baron of the Irish
Exchequer in 1446. In 1601, DermodO"Griffien' was
one of the Irish who fled to Spain after the result of
the Munster war.f In 1643, Walter Griffin, de-
cribed as of Hacketstown, County of Wicklow, was

attainted. The name of this Quarter-Master does

not appear upon the Attainders of 1691, but only
Murtogh Griffin, described as 'of Dublin,' and George
and Thomas Griffin of Knocksymon, County of West-
meath ; while in Ulster, Hugo ' O'Gribbin' of Killeg-
neen, Henry O'Gribbin of Glenbuck, and Richard
O'Gribbin of Clogher, all in the County of Antrim,
were outlawed.

A Lord Griffin, it may be here observed, followed
the fortunes of James the Second through all his
wanderings ; and at the time of the Revolution main-
tained personal fidelity to the unfortunate Exile.
"He had been Lieutenant-General of that Regiment
of his Guards, which bore the name of the Coldstream.
Coming over from France in the Pretender's interest,
he was captured in the Salisbury by Sir George
Byng in 1708, and was tried and condemned to be
beheaded ; but Queen Anne, well knowing the ad
herence of the old Jacobite to her father, could not

* Archdall's Mon. Hib. p. 80.
t Pacata Hibernia. p. 426.

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be prevailed upon to sign the death-warrant, and he
was thus regularly respited every month, until his
death in the Tower in 1710."*

REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL'S, FORMERLY COLONEL THOMAS
TRANT'S, FORMERLY SIR JAMES COTTER'S.

Captains.
The Colonel.

Lieut. Colonel.
Terence Carroll,

Major.
John Taylor.
Edward Rice.
Peter Lavallen.
Arthur Galway.
Sir Thomas Crosby.
John Winnetts.
John Barry.
Jasper Grant.
Henry Coppinger,

Lieutenants.

Piers Power.
Stephen Galway.

John Kir wan.
John Lacy.
Matthew Lavallen.
Nicholas Barry.
Thomas Lycett.
Charles Geoghegan.
George Moore.
James Barry.
James Coppinger.

Comets.
Arthur Hide.
James Conn ell.

Dominick Lynch.
William Bourke.
Patrick Stanton.
William Collins.

Robert Goold.
Teigue O'Lyne.
Henry Wilse.
John Fitzgerald.

Quarter-Masters.

Richard Barry.
David Moskell.

Stephen Lawless.
Kenedy Mc Kenedy.
Patrick Stanton.
John Fennell.

Edward Shewell.
Dermot Don worth.
William Baker.
Thomas Dynneen.

COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL.

The Officers who commanded this Regiment previous
to Colonel Carroll were, Colonel Thomas Trant, of

* Miss Strickland's Queens of England, v. 12, p. 214.

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375

whom hereafter ; and Colonel Sir James Cotter, the
lineal ancestor of Sir James Laurence Cotter of Rock-
forest, County of Cork, Baronet.

The chief notices of this ancient Irish Sept have
been collected at 4 Captain James Carroll,' of Lord
Dongan's Dragoons. It but remains to observe,
that the Colonel here brought forward was previous-
ly Lieutenant-Colonel of that Lord's Dragoons. In
the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum,
are some papers which appear to have been rough
drafts of King James's correspondence with the Irish
Executive before the Revolution, and which the Rev.
Mr. Rowan of Belmont, County of Kerry, conjectures
to have been Sunderland's papers. One of these,
(without date) directed to the Lords Justices, the
Right Reverend Father, &e. &c. runs thus : — "Where-
as we thought fit by our instructions to you, bearing
date the 27th of March last, to direct you to cause
the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to be adminis-
tered to all officers and soldiers of our army there,
and to all Governors of Towns, Forts, Castles ; and to
cashier and dismiss our service such of them as shall
refuse the said oaths or either of them ; and whereas
we have been pleased to withhold Richard Talbot,
Colonel of a Regiment of Horse ; Col. Justin Macar-
tie, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot ; Rene Carney and
Dominick Sheldon, Captains to the Duke of Ormonde;
Anthony Hamilton, Lieutenant-Colonel to Sir Thomas
Newcomen's Regiment of Foot ; William Dorrington,
Major to Colonel Fairfax ; Patrick Lawless, Major

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to Colonel Macartie ; * and Francis Carroll, Captain
to said Colonel's Company ; all in our army, to dis-
pense as we do hereby dispense accordingly with their
taking the said oaths or either of them : our will and
pleasure is, and we do by these presents charge and
require you to give effectual orders from time to time
for mustering the said officers, notwithstanding their
not having taken the said oaths or either of them."
"On the 11th of April, 1691," says Story, "jColonelMac
Fineen's, Colonel Mac Carty's, and two more|Regiments,
making in all about 1,500 men, commanded by Brig-
adier Carroll, came to Iniskean with a design to have
that place and some other small garrisons near it, as
steps to further advance upon our frontiers ;"f but
the assailants were driven off by Colonel Ogleby. In
the following month, Brigadier Francis Carroll was
stationed at Eoss, and acting as Governor3 and Com-
mander-in-Chief of His Majesty's army in the Counties
of Kerry and Cork. (See post, at Colonel ' Daniel
O'Donovan.') A Colonel Carroll was taken pri-
soner at Aughrim, while, in the August following,
after De Ginkle with his army had passed the Shan-
non, Anthony Carroll, (surnamed Fada, the tall), a
gentleman of Tipperary who possessed much influence
with the Eapparees, and who could, according to
Story, bring together to the number of at least 2,000
men, was Governor of Nenagh, a position which he
continued to hold during the autumn and winter of

* See his death in 1680, ante, p. 205.
| Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 65.

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377

1690, and the spring and summer of 1691, making
frequent hostile excursions through the County. On
the 2nd of August in that year he set fire to the
town, in opposition to the movements of Brigadier
Levison, who was making with his party to Limerick;
but the fire was soon put out by sonie^prisoners of the
Williamites who were in the town. The Diary here
cited,* adds that " Brigadier Levison with his Horse
and Dragoons pursued Carroll and his party so closely
and so far, that within four miles of Limerick he took
all their baggage ; amongst which were two rich
coats of long Anthony Carroll's, one valued at eighty
pounds, the other at forty guineas, and about forty
pistoles in gold ; as also 450 head of black cattle and
some sheep, which the enemy's sudden flight would
not suffer them to carry off."

Amongst those attainted in 1691 were Eugene
Carroll, Queen's County ; the above Francis Carroll,
styled of Dublin ; Keene Carroll of Aughgurty, King's
County ; John Mulroney Carroll, of Do. John Carroll
of Cappoquin (he is buried in the churchyard of Dun-
kerron, near Roscrea); Patrick Carroll of Aherna,
County of Wicklow ; and John Carroll of Ballindoon,
County of Sligo.

This Colonel Francis was, on the formation of the
Irish Brigades in France, constituted Colonel of the
' Queen's Dismounted Dragoons,' at the head of
which he fell in the battle of Marsaglia in Italy, in
October, 1693.f

* Ilarleian MSS. vol. 7, p. 480.

t O'Callaglian's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 81.

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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

After this List was drawn up, Thomas Carroll was
appointed first Lieutenant-Colonel and Francis Bois-
meral, second.

CAPTAIN JOHN TAYLOR.

The escallops in the armorials of this family afford
heraldic evidence of their achievements in the Holy
Land. They passed at a very early period from France
into England, where they are traced in the records of
the Southern and Midland Counties. In the reign of
Henry the Third, Edward Taylor of Beverley in
Yorkshire was Chief Falconer to his Sovereign, and
his second son, Nicholas, having passed into Ireland
in 1273, became the founder of the Taylors of
Swords. The lineal descendant and heir male, Alex-
ander Taylor, by his marriage with Agnes, daughter
of William Swinnock, acquired the inheritance of
Swords, and built a mansion house within that town.
His descendant Richard Taylor was in 1543 joined
in a Commission, to try and decide what temporal
and spiritual possessions within the County of Dublin
became vested in the Crown by the dissolution of
monasteries. George Taylor of this line was after-
wards Eecorder of Dublin, its Representative in Sir
John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, and its Sheriff in
1586.

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In the Parliament of 1639, John, heir of Michael
Taylor of Swords, was Member for that Borough. He
married Mary, daughter of John Fagan of Feltrim, by
whom he had John Taylor his heir, whose privations
and sufferings in resisting a transplantation into
Connaught up to the time of the Restoration, when
he obtained a decree confirmatory of his old estate at
Swords, are fully detailed in a Manuscript preserved
by the family. He died in 1680, and the above
Captain John was his second son, but became his heir
on the death of his elder brother Michael, in 1684,
without issue. He Avas one of the Burgesses in the
new Charter granted by King James to his town, and

married first, Alice, daughter of Browne of

Clongowes Wood, (by whom he had one daughter) ;
and second, Helen, daughter of Eichard Fagan of
Feltrim, by whom he had, with several other children,
John his heir, whose grandson, James Joseph Taylor,
now represents this ancient family in the seventeenth
generation from the falconer of Beverley. His
sister, Jane-Elizabeth, who married Josiah Forster,
formerly of St. Croix in the West Indies, died a few
years since, leaving James Fitz-Eustace Forster their
only issue.* This name of Fitz-Eustace was intro-
duced into the family through the grandmother of

Mrs. Forster, Anne Fitz-Eustace, daughter of

Fitz-Eustace, of Cradockstown, County of Kildare, by
a daughter of Patrick Sutton of Morristovvn-Lattin in
the same County. John, Thomas and Robert Taylor,

* D'Alton's History of the County of Dublin, p. 295, &c.

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all of Swords, were attainted in 1642 ; the above
Captain John was the only one of this name outlawed
in 1691.

CAPTAIN PETER LEVALLIN.

Besides this Captain Peter, Patrick 6 Lavallin ' was
an Ensign in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry. In the
Attainders of 1691 the former was described as of
Waterstown, County of Cork ; the latter of Rohara,
in said County ; where were then also outlawed
Matthew Levallin of Great Island ; Thomas Levallin
of Moyallow and of Cork, merchant ; and Janette
Levallin of Dublin, spinster. At the Court of
Claims, James Levallin claimed a remainder in special
tail male, expectant on the death of Melchior Levallin
his father, in County of Cork lands forfeited by the
above Peter Levallin and Jane his wife ; while Mel-
chior himself at the same time claimed an estate tail
in part, and an estate for life in the remainder of
said lands. Digby Foulke claimed and was al-
lowed an interest in Cork lands forfeited by Jane
Levallin, daughter of Patrick 4 Lavallin,' as did the
aforesaid Melchior a mortgage affecting said last
mentioned forfeitures, with similar adjudication in his
favour.

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CAPTAIN ARTHUR GAL WAY.

From a period early in the fourteenth century this
name is found on the records of the Counties of
Waterford and Cork. In 1229, Alan de ' Galweye/

and Galwaye had military summons directed to

them for services in the war in Britanny. In

1605, the King granted to Dominick Sarsfield the
wardship of Walter Galway, son and heir of John
Gal way, late of Cork, deceased, for the yearly sum of
£5 9s. 8d. Irish, and the payment of all rents and
other rights due to the Crown, the said Dominick re-
taining thereout the usual allowances for maintenance
and education of the minor. A funeral entry of
1636, in the Ulster Office of Arms, records the death
in March of this year at Kinsale of Sir Jeffrey
Galway, a Limerick Baronet, eldest son of Alderman
James Galway of Limerick, eldest son of Jeffrey
Galway of Kinsale ; where he was interred in the
monument of his ancestors. Of this first named Sir
Jeffrey, it is said in the Pacata Hibernia* that " he
had spent many years in England in studying the
common laws, and, returning into Ireland about the
year 1597, did so pervert the City of Limerick of
which he was one time Mayor, that by his malicious
counsel and 1 perjurious ' example he withdrew the
Mayor, Aldermen, and generally the whole City from
coming to the Church, which before they had some-

* P. 196, &c. Christie's edition.

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times frequented." The same work alleges instances
of his contumacy and disobedience to military power.
The Attainders of 1642 present the names of a Sir
Jeffrey Galway, Baronet, described as of Typananbeg ;
with those of John Fitz-Christopher Galway and
William David Galway of Blarney, County of Cork.

On the present Army List, Walter Galway appears,
also a Captain, in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. In
the Parliament of 1689, John Galway sat as one of
the Eepresentatives of the City of Cork. Of those at-
tainted in 1691 were the above Captain Arthur
Galway, described as of Ballycoghane, County of
Cork ; with ten others of the name in that County.
The estates of this Arthur Galway in the City of
Cork were sold by the Trustees of the Forfeitures to
Daniel Gibbs, and Edward Bennett of Cork, mer-
chant, and another portion to George Baghtye of
Cork, cutler ; as were other his estates in the
Liberties of Cork to Edward Webber, William Wake-
ham of Barry's Court, Abraham Dixon, and Humph-
rey Sheaves of Cork severally ; as also to the Hollow
Swords' Blades Company and to Thomas Hodder of
Ballyea. The estates of the other officer, Walter
Galway, in West Carbury, County of Cork, were then
sold to Hugh Hutchinson of Black Eock in said
County.

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CAPTAIN SIR THOMAS CROSBY.

John Crosby succeeded to the Sees of Ardfert and
Agliadoe, by the Queen's provision, in 1600. Of those
attainted in 1642 were Sir John Crosby of Waters-
town, County of Kildare, and Walter Crosby of Gort-
maskohe. This Sir John was the grandson of Patrick
Crosby, to whom Queen Elizabeth granted a noble
estate in the Queens County, in reward for his ser-
vices towards ' exterminating ' the O'Mores of Leix.
Part of the lands thereby granted, viz. Ballyfin, the
demesne of the Chief of that Sept, was, on Sir John's
confiscation, granted to Periam Pole, brother of Sir
John Pole of Shute in Devonshire. The above
Captain Sir Thomas is described in the Inquisition of
his Attainder, as " of Tralee, Knight." In the Parlia-
ment of 1689 he sat as one of the Representatives of

the County of Kerry. Those attainted with him

were David Crosby of Ardfert, and Maurice Crosby
of Knockmar, Queen's County.

CAPTAIN JOHN WINNETTS.

This name does not appear again in the Army List,
nor at all on the Attainders.

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CAPTAIN JOHN BARRY.

This illustrious name occurs in the earliest records of
Ireland, and in especial association with the County
of Cork, where the Barry was raised with grants of
large possessions, and a succession of titles in the
Peerage, from Baron Barry to Viscount Buttevant
and Earl of Barrymore. Of the Irish magnates who
in 1302 attended Edward the First in his campaign
against the Scots, were William de Barry, Odo (Hugh)
de Barry, David de Barry of Rathcormack, Philip de
Barry of Rincorran, William Fitz-Phillip Barry, and
William Fitz-William Barry.* In 1507, say the
Four Masters, " The Barry Roe of Cork, i.e. James,
the son of James, accompanied by the Chiefs of his
people, proceeded on a pilgrimage to Spain, and, after
having performed the pilgrimage, they got on board
of a ship to return, and no tidings of their being liv-
ing or dead was ever received." The same Annalists,
at 1580, furnish an interesting genealogical notice of
this noble family. " Barry More, i.e. James, the son
of Richard, son of Thomas, son of Edward, who was
imprisoned in Dublin, died. That James was of the
real genealogical stock of Barry Roe ; and he was a
man who suffered, in the early part of his life, much
trouble and affliction, and he had no hope or expecta-
tion of ever obtaining the title of Barry Roe ; but,
however, God granted him the Captainship of Barry
Maol and also of Barry Roe ; (Barry Maol or the

* Rymer's Foedera, ad ann.

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bald Barry, and also Barry Kuadh or red Barry, were
native designations borne by two branches of this
family) : and not these alone, for he was nominated
Chief of Barrymore, after the destruction of those
whose rightful inheritance it was to possess that title
till then. His son David Barry was afterwards nomi-
nated the Barry by the Earl of Desmond, and
another son of his was according to law Lord of
Barry Eoe."

In 1641 "Philip Barry Oge, (styled of Eincorran)
was amongst the earliest who took up arms against
the English ; and, being master of the camp of Bell-
gorley, he, James Mellifont, and his son went to a
neck of land between the harbour and oyster-haven of
Kinsale, collected all the cattle, horses, cows, &c, be-
longing to the inhabitants of Kinsale, took them to
the camp, and divided them amongst their troopers.
His lands were, by an ordinance of 4th August,
1648, given in custodiam to Captain William Parsons,
in satisfaction of £1113 due to him by the Common-
wealth authorities. Captain Parsons dying in 1652,
Kobert Southwell was in 1655 put into the custodiam
of these lands, for the benefit of the Captain's children.
In 1658, however, he induced the heir to relinquish
his original title to these lands, and to accept them
back on a lease only, and subjected to a rent of £100
per ann. which Southwell, under pretence of serving
the other children, promised to pay to them. The
Kestoration followed in May, 1660, and, in the
ensuing August, Southwell obtained a grant of the

386 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

lands as in lieu of £700 worth of sea-beer supplied by
him in 1648 for Prince Eupert's shipping, and by
charging interest at six per cent extended the debt to
£1300, Meantime, in 1648, Philip Barry Oge, who
had been so expelled from his inheritance, complying
with the articles of peace of that year, retired to
Flanders, where he served King Charles till his death
in 1656. He had married Juliana, daughter of Sir
Dominick Sarsfield, Viscount Kilmallock, by whom
he had a son, William Barry Oge, who endeavoured
after the Restoration to subvert the grant to South-
well, in which suit he was joined by the heir of the
Mellifonts, whose adjoining estate Southwell had ob-
tained at an undervaluation ; but Southwell was
secure in the influence of the Court party, and Wil-
liam Barry Oge, forsaken and friendless, had the
mortification to see "the soil, which was his birthplace,
confirmed by patent of 1666 to his opponent. The
heir of the Mellifonts, also, who had fallen irretriev-
ably into poverty, was reduced to petition the South-
wells' further interest to procure for him a tide-waiter-
ship, or other subordinate office in the Custom House
of Dublin."*

Besides Philip Barry Oge of Rhyncorran, there
were attainted in 1642 Redmond and Gerald Barry
of Lisgrifiin, and eleven others of the name in the
County of Cork. The above Gerald was one of the
Confederate Catholics at the Assembly of 1647 in
Kilkenny. The Declaration of Royal gratitude,

* Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 193.

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embodied in 'the Act of Settlement,' includes the
names of Captain Philip Barry of Dunbogy, Captain
William Barry of Rhincorran, and Lieutenant Robert
Barry of Robertstown, all in the County of Cork.

Besides this John Barry a Captain, Nicholas and
James Barry Lieutenants, and Richard Barry a
Quarter-Master in this present Regiment, Philip
Barry Oge was a Captain in Lord Mountcashel's
Infantry ; (he appears to have been the grandson of
Philip Barry Oge of Rhyncorran, who married the
Honourable Margaret de Courcy, aunt by the father's
side of Almeric Lord Kinsale, hereafter alluded to) ;*
and nineteen others of the name were commissioned
on this List. In King James's Parliament of 1689,
James Barry was one of the Representatives for the
Borough of Rathcormack, while the Attainders there

attempted to be passed included Barry, Earl of

Barrymore ; Richard Barry, the second Baron of
Santry ; Laurence Barry, Lord Buttevant ; and
Richard Barry, Gentleman. The Inquisitions of
1691 record the effective attainders of the above
Captain, described as John Barry of Shanagrane,
Walshestownmore, and Derrylone, with sixteen others
of the name in the County of Cork ; on whose estates
sundry claims were made at Chichester House, and
some allowed.

* Nichols's Top*, and Gen*, p. 547.

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CAPTAIN JASPER GRANT.

This family was from a very remote period settled in
the County of Kilkenny, where so early as in 1346
William le Graunt is reported a landed proprietor.
Captain Jasper was, however, of the County of Cork,
and had estates therein at Kilmurry, as likewise at
Grantstown in the County of Waterford. Gillian
Grant, his widow, claimed in 1700 and was allowed
an estate for her life thereoff ; and for her son, another
Jasper Grant a minor, she claimed an estate tail in
said lands. Annabella Grant sought jointure off
certain Cork Estates under Settlement of 1681, but

her petition was dismist. Walter Grant, described

as of Curlody, in the County of Kilkenny, was
attainted at the same time.

In 1747, Captain Matthew Grant, of Clare's Regi-
ment of Brigade, was killed at Lauffield village, near
Maestricht.*

CAPTAIN HENRY COPINGER,

This is one of the few families of Danish extraction
yet existing in Ireland. Its first settlement was in
the County of Cork, where it still continues. In
1535, William Copinger, Mayor of Cork, had a
grant of the King's Castle there to him and his future
successors in the Mayoralty. In the first Parliament

* Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377.

CARROLL'S DRAGOONS.

389

of Queen Elizabeth, Stephen Copinger was one of the
Eepresentatives for that City. When, early in the
reign of James the First, the East India Company of
England meditated a settlement in Munster, for
carrying on iron works and building large ships, they
purchased for this speculation woods and lands in the
Barony of Kinalea and Kerrycurrihy, erected a dock,
and actually launched two ships. " Yet were they,"
says Smith* " so disturbed in their undertaking by
Walter Copinger and others of the Irishry, that they
were forced to quit the country, and abandon the pro-
ject. Nevertheless, soon afterwards, Walter Copinger
had a grant of a castle, with various lands, chiefrents,
and customs, the lands being erected into two manors,
that of Cloghanmore with liberty to impark 1,000
acres, and Kilfinane with like liberty for 600 acres.

Of this name were attainted, in 1642, Stephen
Copinger of Grange, Thomas Fitz- Walter Copinger of
Manances, and Richard and Walter of Ringroan, all
in the County of Cork. A James Copinger of Clogh-
ane in said County was likewise outlawed ; and it
was in reference to him and his sequestered estates
that the Earl of Anglesey, when in power, wrote to
the Sheriff of Cork in a tone of tenderness and com-
miseration creditable to his memory : — " Mr. Sheriff,
whereas Mr. James Copinger, upon his claim before
his Majesty's Commissioners for putting in execution
the Act of Settlement, hath been declared innocent
and to be restored to his lands, and hath obtained a

* Hist, of Cork, vol. 1, p. 219.

390 king james's irish army list,

decree pursuant thereunto ; and whereas part of the
land is in my possession, I desire, when the decree
conies to your hands to be executed, that you will,
notwithstanding any interest I have in the said lands,
see the same put in execution for so much as I am

concerned in."* An Ensign John Copinger was

on the List of officers recommended for early prefer-
ment in Lord Tyrconners orders of 1686 to Colonel
Eussel;f he does not, however, appear on this.

In April, 1691, a Captain Copinger was killed in a
skirmish with a party of Captain Clayton's Infantry .J
The Attainders of this year include the names of
Thomas Copinger of Killentine, with ten others of
that name in the County of Cork, and Henry, Mat-
thew, and* William Copinger of the City, merchants.
This latter individual was the Catholic Sheriff of
Cork in King James's time, and fled with his Koyal
Master to France, where on his death Louis the Four-
teenth assigned a foreigner's pension for his widow.
The above Captain Henry of this Eegiment was his
brother, as was also Edward, the Captain who was
killed as above in April, 1691. From a family pedi-
gree furnished to the compiler of these notices, it ap-
pears that the above Thomas Copinger of Killentine
was an elder brother of the three last mentioned, that
he married Helen Galway of Lota, and was the lineal
ancestor of the present William Copinger of Ballyvo-

* Thorpe's Cat. Southw. MSS., p. 186.

t Smith's Cork, vol. 1, p. 459.

% Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 70,

CARROLL'S DRAGOONS.

391

lane and Barryscourt, in the County of Cork. At the
Court of Claims, Stephen Copinger, as son and heir of
said Thomas, claimed a remainder in tail in his
estates under marriage settlements of 1676 ; as did
John and Edward Copinger similar remainders under
the same deed. These claims were allowed to the ex-
tent of the lands comprised in that settlement, which
were very considerable. Such property as said
Thomas Copinger had in the City of Cork was sold
by the Commissioners to Charles Farringdon, as were
such of his unsettled estates as lay in the County and
within the Liberties of the City, to Helen Galway and
Abraham Dixon, of Cork ; while those of the above
Walter, and James his son, were similarly conveyed
to Edmund Roch of Trabolgan.

From the above Captain Henry Coppinger are de-
scended, in the male line, General Joseph Coppinger,
now in the Spanish service ; and Francis Coppinger
of Monkstown Castle, County of Dublin ; as are, in
the female line, Christopher Coppinger, Chairman of
the County of Kildare ; and the O'Briens of Kilcor,
near Castle Lyons, County of Cork.

LIEUTENANT JOHN LACY.

This great name occurs in the first Roll of the
Patents of Ireland, the King thereby granting to
Hugh de Lacy the whole Province of Meath, thereto-
fore the mensal estate of the native Monarch s of Ire-

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

land ; to hold the same with as full and ample powers
as Hugh O'Melaghlin, then yet styled King of Meath
had held the same, and this conveyance is especially
witnessed amongst others by Earl Strongbow, whose
recognition, as husband of the heiress of King Der-
mott Mac Murrough, Henry was perhaps then not
unwilling in policy to obtain.* De Lacy in this
grant had the powers of a Lord Palatine conferred
upon him, and early after he sought to arrange a
peaceful treaty with Poderic O'Conor, the King of Ire-
land, as acknowledged by the natives. They met on
the banks of the Shannon, but De Lacy's terms were
then considered too severe to be accepted by Poderic.
The former, however, received his daughter in mar-
riage as his second wife, whereby he incurred the
Royal jealousy, and was recalled from the Viceroy alty
which he then filled. His powers as a Palatine ex-
tended to the erection of boroughs, one of which, on
the northern border of the Pale, was Drogheda ; and
he yet more practically endeavoured to secure the
English interest, and to extend the circuit of that
Pale, by fortifying castles in advance into the island.
The Four Masters jealously say of his government,
that "he confiscated and transferred many churches to
the English Lords in Meath, Brefney, and Oriel, and
to him the rents of Connaught were paid." He was
assassinated in 1186, while inspecting a castle which
had just been erected by his order at Durrow, in the
Kings County. His sons were Hugh and Walter ;

* D'Altou's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 40.

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the former, after sharp contests with De Courcy,
became Lord of Ulster ; and dying in 1241, his
daughter and heiress married William de Burgo, who
died in 1244. Their daughter and heiress married
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, third son of King Edward
the Third, and she was grandmother of Edward the
Fourth, in whose right the title and estates vested in
the Crown. To the failure of the De Lacys' issue
male, Baron Finglas in his 1 Breviate' mainly attri-
butes the origin of absenteeism in this country ; and
it is a remarkable concurrence in the destinies of Ire-
land, that the male line of Earl Strongbow also failed,
and similar marriages of his female issue into English
families, scattered his immense territory amongst
powerful but ever absent proprietors.

In 1314, Walter and another Hugh de Lacy were
of the Irish Magnates, who attended King Edward on
his expedition against Scotland. They appear to
have descended from Hugh de Lacy's second marriage
with the daughter of Koderic O'Conor. In Mount-
joy's engagement against the Earl of Tyrone, fell
Pierce Lacy of Bruff, County of Limerick, " a zeal-
ous Catholic and one of the most alert of the Munster
Chieftains."* In 1604, and 1608, King James
the First granted to his favourite Sir James Fullerton
the castle and lands of Bruff (inter alia) as "late
in the tenure of Piers Lacie attainted, with all other
his estate belonging to him at his death in rebellion."
The name does not appear on the Attainders of 1642,

* Stuart's Armagh, p. 29 G.

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although there were at that time three branches of the
family settled in the County of Limerick alone, at
Bruree, Bruff, and Ballingarry.*

John Lacy of the House of Bruff was the only in-
dividual of the name who attended the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny in 1647 ; he was placed in the
rank of Colonel on the Restoration ; and, on the
raising of the army for King James, was appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Charles Cavanagh's
Infantry, as noted hereafter ; but, as his name did not
appear on the present Army List, the notices of 'de
Lacy' could not be referred to him. He resided at
Kilmallock, and was Deputy Governor of Limerick
under Lord Blessington in 1685-6 ; at which time the
Viceroy, the Earl of Clarendon, wrote of him to the
Earl of Sunderland : — uHere is a Colonel Lacy, an old
Cavalier, who hopes the King will, when he has an
opportunity, put him into employment. I am sure
he desires it. He was an officer in the time of King
Charles the First, and I believe His Majesty remem-
bers him with himself in France and Flanders, where
he served very bravely. This poor gentleman was
settled here in a very comfortable way, when in Oates'
4 reign' he was sent into England, and kept prisoner
in the Gatehouse about two years, besides other
severities both to his person and his estate. I take
the liberty to recommend his enclosed petition to
your Lordship."f Clarendon at the same time wrote

* Ferrar's Limerick, p. 346.

| Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 207.

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395

a special letter in Lacy's favour to the King, grace-
fully adding, " I beg your Majesty's pardon for say-
ing thus much in a particular man's case, which I
will never do, but when the person's eminent loyalty
and services will justify me."* Subsequently, al-
luding to growing apprehensions that a restoration of
their lands would be sought by many from the new
King, and that some who had been made officers
encouraged the apprehension, the Viceroy says, " all
this would be very easily remedied, and the King
have all done he has mind to, if men would be dis-
creet in their states as several are ; amongst whom
ought to be remembered Sir John Fitzgerald, both
the Dempsys, Colonel Sheldon, Lacy, and many more
who have moulded their troops and companies to
their mind, without the least dissatisfaction to any
one. They are beloved in their quarters, they cherish
and comfort the people, and punish those who talk
impertinently. But there are likewise several of
whom I cannot give so good characters ; and those
who ought to reprove them for indiscretion will only
say, 'Alas! poor man, he has lost his estate ; you
must give him leave to talk.' I have taken the
liberty to entertain your Lordship with these stories,
that you may see something of the temper of persons
as well as things ; and to show you that it is not so
much the King's employing Roman Catholics in his
army which disquiets men, as that there are such from
whom, by their own words and actions, they fear to

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 208.

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be oppressed instead of being protected. Believe it,
my Lord, when it is known what the King would
have, and which, with submission (in some cases)
ought to be known but to a few, it may be easily
done to general satisfaction ; for I must needs say,
never were people in the world more disposed to
obedience, and to betake themselves to their industry,
than the generality of people here, if they are let alone."*
In 1689, this Colonel John Lacy was one of the Repre-
sentatives of Kilmallock in the Parliament of Dublin.
At the second siege of Limerick, when the William-
ites had succeeded in throwing a bridge over the
Shannon at Thomond Gate, (as before mentioned, p.
71) Colonel Lacy, with 800 picked men, was ordered
out to contest their advance, which he did with great
valour and good success for a time, till, overpowered
by a continual supply of fresh opponents, he was
forced to give way and retire to the gate ; which the
mayor of the City, however, apprehending the English
might enter with them, imprudently closed, whereby
the greater number of Lacy's gallant band was cut
down.

The subsequent Attainders of 1691 include the
names of this Colonel, stiled "of Kilmallock;" Simon
Lacy of Ferns, County of Wexford ; and Thomas and
Walter Lacy of Balrath, County of Westmeath. This
Thomas Lacy forfeited also largely in the Barony and
County of Roscommon, and very many claims were
preferred at Chichester House as affecting his confis-

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 456.

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cations, the greater portion of which was sold in 1703
by the Commissioners to Samuel Massy of Dublin,
M.D.

Various gallant officers of this name appear on the
records of continental military achievement, the
career of one of whom powerfully connects with pass-
ing events,- the Count Peter de Lasci; whom

an autobiography preserved by his descendant Mrs-
de Lacy Nash states to have been born in the County
of Limerick in 1678 ; that his father was Peter, son
of John Lacy of Ballingarry ; that on the capitula-
tion of Limerick he was brought off by his uncle John
(who appears to have been the above Colonel), who
had the rank of Quarter-master General and Brigadier
in France, and was Colonel of the Prince of Wales's
Infantry Eegiment, on which this youth was at once
enrolled ; that he marched with it to Piedmont in
1692, joined Catinat in May, 1693, and in the
October of that year was at the battle of the 'Val de
Marseilles,' in which his uncle, said John, received a
mortal wound. The Regiment having been disband-
ed on the peace of Ryswick, this young officer volun-
teered in the Polish service under Marshal Due de
Croy, in the rank of Lieutenant. The Due presented
him to Peter the Great, who was then in alliance with
Poland, and the Czar took him into his own service,
in which he obtained a majority in 1705, and a
Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the following year. In
1708, he was promoted to the command of the Sibe-
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Army. On the first of January, 1709, he commanded
the right wing and acted as a Brigadier at the great
Battle of Pultowa, where he was wounded. In
1710, he distinguished himself in the attack on Kiga,
and in the following year was made Major-General.
His various movements are in the manuscript set
down by the year, until in 1737 he was appointed to
command an expedition into the Crimea. Crossing
an arm of the sea (he writes) near Arabat, we
marched and took Perekop, and blew up the fortifi-
cations. He died in Livonia in 1751, Governor of
that Province. This was the general who, according to
Ferrar,* u taught the Russians to beat the army of the
King of Sweden, and to become from the worst some
of the best soldiers of Europe. Before the battle of
Pultowa he advised the Czar to send orders that every
soldier should reserve his fire until he came within a
few yards of the enemy ; in consequence of which
Charles the Twelfth was there totally defeated, losing
in that single action the advantages of nine campaigns
of glory, and narrowly escaping being taken prisoner."
The son of this Count Peter was Joseph-Francis-
Maurice, Count de Lasci, born in 1725 at St. Peters-
burgh, and educated at Vienna. He made his first
campaign in the Austrian army in Italy during the
year 1744, where he had three horses shot under him
at the battle of Velletri. At the siege of Maestricht
in 1748, he received the rank of Colonel. He dis-
tinguished himself against Prussia in the seven years'

* Hist, of Limerick, p. 347.

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war, in 1762 received the baton of Marshal from
the Emperor's own hand, and in the same year served
with considerable eclat in the war between Austria
and Prussia. In 1801, he died at Vienna, where the
Emperor Joseph the Second, to whom he left all his
property, caused a bust to be erected to his memory
in the hall of the Chancery of the Council of War.
Of this latter Marshal, Wraxall writes,* in 1778,
"Marshal Lacy is now approaching his sixtieth year ;
when young, he must have been very handsome.
Though he has been six times wounded by musket
balls, he enjoys perfect health, and preserves a youth-
ful appearance. He was born in Eussia, son of the
famous Marshal Lacy, who in conjunction with
Munich commanded the Muscovite armies against the
Turks, and obtained so many victories over them in
the last years of the Empress Anne. It was in that
great school he learned the art of war. I have heard
him say that his father sent him to study at Legnitz
in Silesia, and afterwards at Vienna. In 1740,
about the time of Maria Theresa's accession, he en-
tered the Austrian service as an Ensign in the Regi-
ment of Count (afterwards Marshal) Brown, who was
killed at the battle of Prague. Having distinguished
himself by a thousand acts of personal courage, ac-
tivity, and ability, he rose so rapidly that at the
commencement of the war of 1756 he was already a
Colonel, and soon became a Major-General.

Another General Maurice de Lacy, born in

* Memoirs of the Court of Berlin, vol. 1, p. 173.

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Limerick in 1740, was invited to Kussia by his rela-
tive, the aforesaid Marshal Peter, and entered that
service when but ten years old. He served under
Suwarrow in the Italian campaign of 1799, in cam-
paigns against the Turks, and also in the Crimea.

He died in 1820, unmarried. Of Lacys in Spain,

Francis Anthony Lacy, Count de Lacy, was a famous
General and Diplomatist ; born in 1731, commenced
his military career as an Ensign in the Irish Brigade
of Ultonia Infantry, was raised to be a Colonel in
1762, and a Commander of Artillery in 1780, when
he was employed at the celebrated siege of Gibraltar.
After the peace of Utrecht in 1783, he was consti-
tuted Minister Plenipotentiary in Sweden and Russia,
and died at Barcelona in 1792. He had married a
daughter of the Marquis d'Abbeville, by whom he
left a son, Captain-General of Artillery to his Most
Catholic Majesty ; and a daughter, who married
" the Marquis of Canada, originally Irish, of the an-
cient family of Terry."

COKNET PATRICK STAUNTON.

In England the name of de Staunton dates from the
Conquest, while in Ireland it is of record from the
earliest days after the English Invasion. About the
year 1200, Milo and Henry de Staunton disputed the
patronage of the parish church of Monmohenock in
Wicklow with the Bishop of Glendaloch ; Milo was

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then seised of its manor.* In 1220, Adam de Staun-
ton granted lands in Kilbrenin, witli the mill, the
church, and all tithes there, to Christ Church, Dublin,
for the founding of a cell with resident canons. The
above Milo at the same time endowed the abbey of
St. Thomas in that City with the churches of Dun-
brin and Demloff. In 1244, Adam was summoned,
as one of the 4 Fideles ' of Ireland, to service in the
Scottish war ; and in 1279, Richard de Burgo, Earl
of Ulster, petitioned for the wardship of Adam de
Staunton, who held lands in Connaught under him.
In 1295, the latter Adam was summoned for the war
in Gascony, as was William de Staunton to that of
Scotland in 1302. In 1308, Gerald, son and heir of
Maurice de Staunton, made a marriage appointment
of dower, (according to the custom of the time) at the
gate of St. Patrick's Cathedral ; assigning four ca-
rucates of land in the County of Cork (which had
been his father's) with seven marks for his wife, Ma-
tilda de Ruggeleye ; while Henry de Ruggeleye pass-
ed his bond for fifty-seven marks as the portion of
said Matilda. About this time, Philip de Staunton,
clerk, received the fall sum of £100 for his remune-
ration in the service of mustering men-at-arms, 'to put
down the Irish felons in the mountains of Leinster.'
In 1312, Fromund le Brim (Brown) acquired a con-
siderable property in Connaught in right of his wife,
Nesta, the daughter of the aforesaid Adam de Staun-
ton. In 1359, Philip de Staunton was deputed to

* Mason's St. Patrick's, p. C>5.

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treat with the Irish 1 rebels ' in Leinster, and to hold
parley and make peace with them. In 1373, John
Staunton was one of those directed to be summoned
from Meath by its Sheriff, to attend a great Council.
In eight years after, the Earl of Mortimer, then Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, died at Cork, whereupon the
Lord Chancellor and a Justice of the Bench issued
summonses for such persons as usually formed a Par-
liament, to meet at Cork for the purpose of appointing a
temporary Viceroy. Amongst those so summoned were
Milo Staunton and David Fitz-Thomas Eoche, Knights,
returned as for the County of Cork.* In 1422,
John Staunton was appointed Constable of Trim for
life, with power to hear and decide controversies con-
cerning customs, his salary being fixed at twenty
marks per annum. The last Prior of the old abbey
of Ballintobber in the County of Mayo, at the time of
the dissolution, was Walter Mac Willie de Staunton.f
In 1574, Thomas Staunton, described as having been
'an ancient Captain in the Irish wars,' purchased the
manor and advowson of Wolverston in Warwickshire ;
while another Captain Staunton distinguished himself
in 1601 in the war of Ulster. In 1606, Sir John
Everard of Fethard, County of Tipperary, had a grant
of (inter alia) Clogher, one quarter and other lands in
the County of Mayo, parcel of the estate of John
(Ballagh) Stanton, 'attainted;' while in 1634, a
George Staunton came over from Buckinghamshire to
Ireland, settled in the County of Galway, and there,

* Mason's St. Patrick's, p. 127.

t King's MSS., p. 197.

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intermarrying with a lady of the name of Lynch,
became founder of the Cargins line. His son, another
George, had a grant in 1678 of various lands in the
Barony of Dunmore within that County. *

On the present Army List and in this Regiment
a second Patrick Staunton appears as Quarter-Master
to his above namesake. The Attainders of 1691
describe either of them as Patrick Stanton of Great
Island, County of Cork, where were also outlawed
Michael Stanton, merchant, and James Stanton?
clothier, both of the City of Cork. In 1698, Thomas
Staunton was appointed with others to collect a state
subsidy of £940 off Clare, and another of £1260 off
Galway County ; he became in 1722 Recorder of
Gal way and its Representative in Parliament. In
1801, died Sir George Leonard Staunton, (a descen-
dant of George of 1634)- he had applied himself to
the profession of the Bar, and was appointed His
Majesty's Attorney General for Grenada ; after which
he accompanied Lord Macartney to Madras, and sub-
sequently on his celebrated embassy to China in
1791. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

CORNET WILLIAM COLLINS.

Nothing has been discovered of note concerning him;
and a Darby Collins, described as of Buttevant, is the
only individual of the surname appearing on the At-
tainders of 1691.

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CORNET ROBERT GOOLD.

The Goold family was at an early period established
in the County of Cork. In 1356, Nicholas ' Gold '
was one of these influential persons commissioned to
applot a state subsidy off that County, as was David
' Gold ' in a few years after. With the Municipal
History of the City they were, during the years previ-
ous to the first Civil War, intimately connected, Golds
having been Mayors of Cork, from 1442 to 1640, no
less than thirty times ; but afterwards they ceased to
fill any corporate office there. Queen Elizabeth's
instructions to her Lord President of Munster, Sir
George Carew, in 1600, directed that William Saxey,
Chief Justice, and James Golde, second Justice of the
said Province, being of special trust appointed to be
of his Council, shall give their continual attendance
thereat, and shall not depart at any time without the
special licence of the said Lord President. The salary
of the Chief was fixed at £100, that of James Golde
at one hundred marks, subject to deductions in case
of their absence from the duties so imposed upon
them. A Manuscript Book of Obits in Trinity
College, Dublin, (F. iv. 18), supplies some links of the
family of William Goold, Mayor of Cork in 1618, and
who died in 1634.

The Attainders of 1642 include the names of Gar-
rett 4 Goold ' of Castletown, and of James .and John
Fitz-Richard Goold of Tower-Bridge, merchants.
James Goold was the only member of the family who

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attended the Supreme Council in 1647. Besides

the above Cornet Robert Goold, there appear on this
List, Thomas ' Gold ' an Ensign in Colonel Nicholas
Browne's Infantry Regiment ; and James Gold, an
Ensign in Colonel John Barrett's. The Attainders of
1691 include the names of James and Ignatius Goold,
described as of Cork, Esquires ; John Goold of Kin-
sale, Esq.; Richard of Cork, merchant ; Patrick of
said City ; James ' Goold ' of Galway, and Ellen
Bagot, otherwise Goold, wife of John Bagot of Cork.

Amongst those who were taken at sea in 1746,
volunteering to aid the cause of Prince Charles-
Edward, was ' Captain Gould, Ultonia Regiment,
Spanish service.'* It may be added that in the
Church of St. Giles at Bruges is a burial place of Wil-
liam Goold, ' of ancient and venerable lineage in Cork,'
c hujus ecclesice ceditui] as inscribed upon a white
marble slab inserted in the flag of the Chapel of the
Blessed Virgin.f In 1801, a branch of this family
was raised to the Baronetcy in Sir Francis Goold of
Oldcourt, County of Cork ; while in the Imperial Par-
liament Wyndham Goold was, until his recent decease,
one of the Representatives for the County of Limerick.

CORNET TEIGUE O'LYNE.
The O'Lynes constituted an ancient Sept in the

* Gent. Mag. vol. 16, p. 208.

f Nichols's Top*, and Gen1, for 1853, p. 535.

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County of Kerry, but the name does not otherwise ap-
pear on this List. John Lyne was one of those
attainted in 1691, and his estate in Kerry was sold
by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures to Thomas
Connor of Dublin.

COENET HENEY WILSE,
QUAETEE-MASTEE DAVID MOSKELL,
QUAETEE-MASTEE EDWAED SHEWELL.

Nothing is known of these officers or their families.

QUAETEE-MASTEE JOHN FENNELL.

The Attainders of 1642 include a Patrick Fennell,
described as of Kilrush, County of Clare. At the
Supreme Council of Kilkenny, five years after, Gerard
Fennell ' of Bally griffin,' County of Tipperary, was one
of the Commons ; his estates were accordingly confis-
cated in Cromwell's time, but restored by the Act of
Explanation in 1665. By the Usurper's ordinance of
1652 this Gerard, described as a Doctor of Physic,
was excepted from pardon for life and estate. He
died in 1663, and was buried at St. Michan's, Dublin.
This estate of Bally griffin was, in 1668, confirmed
under the Act of Settlement to Thomas Gower, with
a saving, however, of such right as Ellen, Gerald's
widow, might prove herself entitled to.

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QUARTER-MASTER DERMOT DONWORTH.

In the Inquisition for his Attainder in 1691, he is
described as of Templeconolly, County of Cork ; where
another of the family, Robert Donworth, was also
outlawed.

QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM BAKER.

This Officer seems identical with William Baker of
Ballytobin in the County of Kilkenny, (the son of a
Major William Baker, who lost all his estates in
Worcestershire by his adherence to King Charles the
First). He obtained Ballytobin from Charles the
Second, and is at this clay represented by his lineal
descendant, Abraham Whyte Baker. A Francis
Baker was Captain in Lord Bophin's Regiment of
Infantry ; yet neither name appears on the At-
tainders of 1691, but only that of Peter Baker,
described as of Dungorney, County of Cork.

QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS DYNNEEN.

The O'Dinnahans or O'Dinans were located in the
County of Limerick, Chiefs of the tract now known as
the Barony of Owneybeg.

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REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.

[BRIGADIER THOMAS MAXWELL.]

[LIEUTENANT- COLONEL DANIEL MAGENNIS.]
[MAJOR ■ CALLAGHAN.]

The Army List, more concisely given in Somers'
State Tracts, (vol. xi., p. 399) makes note of this
seventh Regiment of Dragoons, commanded by Colo-
nel Thomas Maxwell, and his name appears on the
List of Colonels that introduces this Muster Roll ;
while in Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon
(vol. ii, p. 512,) his force is set down as twelve com-
panies, comprising a total of six hundred men. He,
according to Colonel O'Kelly, was a Scotchman by
birth, a pretended Roman Catholic, and of mean ex-
traction. O'Callaghan, with less prejudice and on
more satisfactory authority, reports him to have been
" of a very good family in his native country, prob-
ably a branch of the Maxwells of Nithsdale." Previ-
ous to King James retiring into France in 1688,
Maxwell was appointed in England Colonel of a Regi-
ment of Dragoons, in place of James Berkeley,
Viscount Fitz-Harding, who succeeded to the command
on Maxwell's following that King. In Ireland the
latter was afterwards made Colonel of a Regiment of
Dragoons, of which Daniel Magennis was Lieutenant-
Colonel, and Callaghan, Major.* Mr. Hardi-

* King's State of the Protestants, p. 68.

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man adds of this Colonel,* that he was married in
England to Jane, Duchess of Norfolk, widow of the
sixth Duke, a Lady remarkable for her beauty and
accomplishments. When Schomberg landed at
Bangor in 1689, Maxwell, then stationed in that
place, not being able with his small force to give
opposition, left there Mac Carty More's Eegiment
with some Companies of Cormuck O'Neill's, and
retired to Newry. He was present at the battle of
the Boyne. Colonel O'Kelly says he was one of those
appointed by Tyrconnell to guide and advise the
young Duke of Berwick on that Viceroy's departure
for France ; and it would appear from his narrative,
that he interested himself in predisposing King James
to give a cool reception to the delegates against Tyr-
connel, whom he accompanied to St. Germains. On
that delegation were, besides Maxwell, the Bishop of
Cork, the two Luttrells, and Colonel Purcell. " Pur-
cell," says 0'Conor,f " and Henry Luttrell, suspecting
that Maxwell carried private instructions, proposed to
throw him overboard ; but the Bishop interposed the
sanctity, and Simon Luttrell the mildness and
honesty of his character, and their united expostula-
tions rescued him from a watery grave."

O'Kelly, who was himself a partizan of St. Ruth
against Tyrconnel, ascribes the surprisal of Athlone
by De Ginkle to the neglect or treachery of Colonel
Maxwell. The Duke of Berwick in his Memoir takes

* History of Galway, p. 429.
f O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 128.

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a very different view of the circumstance, as men-
tioned in O'Callaghan's valuable notes on the Excid.
Macarice, (p. 427). Dr. Story, the Williamite his-
torian of the campaign, in reference to the taking of
Athlone, writes : — " 1691, 28th June, the garrison
detached a sergeant and ten men out of Brigadier
Maxwell's Regiment, being all bold and daring Scots.
These were all in armour, and came over their own
works with a design to ruin ours, but were all of
them slain ; yet this did not discourage as many
more from setting about the same piece of service, and
they effected it by throwing down our planks and
beams, maugre all our firming and skill, though they all
lost their lives as testimonies of their valour, except
two."* The town was taken in two days after, and
Major-General Maxwell made prisoner, and sent up
with others to Dublin ; "but some," says Story,
" made their escape.f" The Dragoons of Maxwell
(who had himself in the course of the campaign
become a Brigadier, and Major-General in the Irish
army), with the others hereinbefore mentioned, were
all engaged at Aughrim, with the exception of Lord
Clare's, which had been previously brigaded ; while
Mr. O'Callaghan in his Green Booh, (p. 319)
suggests the existence of another Regiment of
Dragoons there, commanded by Colonel John
O'Reilly.

The " Diary of the Siege and Surrender of Limerick

* Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 102.
f Idem, pp. 108-9, and 117.

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in 1691" says, at 16th September, "About seven
of the clock the bridge was finished, and the General
immediately ordered the Royal Eegiment of Dragoons

to pass In the meantime the enemy's Dragoons

came down on foot to oppose us, but as soon as our
men advanced they took to their heels, leaving their
tents and baggage with their bridles and saddles (their
horses being at grass at a place about two miles off )
behind them. We took also two pieces of brass can-
non, and Brigadier Maxwell's standard We took

several prisoners, and among them a French Lieute-
nant-Colonel of Dragoons, and some other officers."*
O'Conor writes in respect to this critical scene,
u Maxwell, who guarded the ford below the town, had
suffered his men to fall asleep, and some of them de-
serting apprised the enemy of the state of the gar-
rison ; De Ginkle, who had resolved upon a desperate
effort, was much encouraged by this information,
and his efforts were successful. f" That this Brigadier
was not guilty of any deficiency of allegiance to the
King he acknowledged, may yet be presumed from
the fact of his having, after the Capitulation of Lime-
rick, passed over to France at the head of two Irish
Regiments of Dragoons, spoken of by Marshal Catinat
as performing 1 des clioses surprenentes de valeur et
de bon ordre dans le combat.'' He was killed at the
battle of Marsiglia in Piedmont, gained over the Duke
of Savoy and the allies by that Marshal in 1693.

* Harleian MSS. vol. 7, p. 486.
t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 140.

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O'Conor, however, in his " Military Memoirs ' says^
it was a Charles Maxwell, Major in the Brigaded
Eegiment styled the Queen's Dismounted Dragoons,
who was killed at the battle of Marsiglia.

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem., pp. 198 and 222.

[ 413 ]

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Regiments of Infantry.

1. The King's,

2. John Hamilton's,

3. Henry Fitz- James's, Lord

Grand Prior,

4. Mountcashel's,

5. Clancarthy's,
6 Clanricarde's,

7. Earl of Antrim's,

8. Earl of Tyrone's,

9. Nugent's (Richard),

10. Gormanston's,

11. Dillon's (Henry),

12. Lord Galway's,

13. Lord Bellew's,

14. Lord Kenmaee's,

15. Lord Slane's,

16 O'Neill's (Cormuck),

17. Cavenagh's (Charles),

18. Bdtler's (Thomas),

19. FitzGerald's (John),

20. Lord Louth's,

21. Lord Kilmallock's,

22. Sir Maurice Eustace's,

23. Earl of Westmeath's,

24. Major-General Boise-

LEAU'S ,

25. Lord Bophin's,

26. O'Gara's (Oliver),

27. Grace's (John),

28. Butler's (Edward),

29. McMahon's (Art),

30. Moore's (Charles),

31. Bagnall's (Dudley),

32. O'Neill's (Gordon),

33. Browne's (Nicholas),

34. Sir Michael Creagh's,

35. Sir He ward Oxburgh's,

36. Browne's (Dominick),

37. Mac C artie's (Owen),

38. Barrett's, (John),

39. O'Bryan's (Charles),

40. O'Donovan's (Daniel),

41. Lord Iveagh's,

42. McEllicott's (Roger),

43. O'Reilly's (Edmund),

44. MacGuire's (Cuconaught)

45. Bourke's (Walter),

46. O'Neill's (Felix),

47. McMahon's (Hugh),

48. McGillicuddy's (Denis),

49. Purcell's (James),

50. Lord Hunsdon's,

51. Moore's (Garrett),

52. Bourke's (Patrick),

53. Bourke's (Michael),

54. Cormick's (Michael),

55. O'Neill's (Henry),

56. McMahon's (Hugh).

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

Captains.

The King's Company, Mi-
chael Roth, Captain.

William Dorrington, Colonel.

William Maunsell Barker,
Lieutenant-Colonel.

Thomas Arthur, Major. j

George Talbot.

Richard Fagan.

Sir Luke Dowdall. |

Sir Gregory Byrne. j
Patrick Dowdall.

Bartholomew Russel. j

Thomas Hackett. j

Thomas Warren. j

Walter Nangle, and Geo. ) C
Nangle, his Son. ) \

Edward Dowdall. |

George Aylmer. j
John Segrave.

Sir Anthony Mulledy. j

Thomas Arundell, Grena- i

diers. \

John Tyrrell.
John Arthur.

THE KING'S.

Lieutenants.
Richard Fitzgerald.

Robert Russell.
Thomas Wafer.

John Connell,
Walter Plunket.
William Fitzwilliam

Barnwell,
John Edwards.
Edmund Fahy,
John Clancy.
Christopher Weldon
Edmund Brennan.
Charles M'Donnell,
Peter Purcell.
Richard Bourke.
James Russell,
James Carney.
David Nihffl,
Christopher Taaffe.
Robert Dillon,
Walter D'Alton.
Edward Nangle,
John Grace.
Peter Bathe,
Bryen Lynch.
Edward Tipper,
Thomas Skelton.
James Molloy.
Francis White,
Edmund Kelly.
Charles Povey,
John Marge tson.

Andrew Doyle,
William Fitzwilliam
Barnwell.

Ensigns.
Edward Arthur.

Talbot Salter.
James Touchett.

John Arthur.

Nicholas Tyrwhitt.

Piers Meade.

Robert Barnewall.

Edward Hanlon.
Christopher Archbold.

Edward Toole.

Michael Warren.

John Dillon.

JohnPlunket.

John Cusack.
Matthew Taaffe.
Adam Cusack.

George Russell.
Henry Driscoll.
Thomas Povntz.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

415

THE KING'S.

This fine Regiment is stated in the Establishment of
1687-8 as then consisting of only twelve companies
(1080 men); its charge being stated as £17,827 12s.
When strengthened as in this Muster Roll, it comprised
twenty-two companies of ninety soldiers each, or
1980 men, exclusive of officers. The celebrated
Doctor Alexius Stafford (a secular priest of Wexford
County) Dean of Christ Church, Master in Chancery,
and member for Bannow in King James's Parliament,
was Chaplain to the Regiment ; and he, having in his
zeal passed into the ranks at the battle of Aughrim,
fell on that disastrous day.

The Clarendon Correspondence (vol. 1, p. 434,)
gives an interesting account of a review of this
Regiment in 1686. "This morning (8th June,
1686) the Royal Regiment drew up in St. Stephen's
Green, when my Lord Tyrconnei viewed them and
saw them exercise ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrington
was in his post; I was not in the field. His Lordship
told the officers that the King was so satisfied in the
long services of Sir Charles Fielding, that he had
removed him to prefer him to a better post, and that
he did the like for Master Billingsley, who was then
in the field, Major Barker not being yet come. His
Lordship likewise said, as I am informed, His
Majesty did not remove any of the other officers out
of any dislike, for he was well satisfied with their
services, but to make room for other men of great

416 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

merit. Then presented Captain Harman to the Com-
pany he was to command, on the head of which was
Captain Margetson, who said he bought his employ-
ment to show his readiness to venture his life and
fortune in the King's service ; that whilst he had
been in it he behaved himself with loyalty and honor,
and did now most readily submit to his Majesty's
pleasure." This Regiment of Infantry, together with
Fitz-James's, Lord Galway's, Sir Maurice Eustace's,
and Colonel Eamsay's, Lord Galmoy's, Lord Abercorn's,
and Colonel Dominick Sheldon's Horse, constituted
the besieging force at Derry ; and at the Boyne and
on the last fatal field of Aughrim, the valour and
steadiness of this truly Royal Regiment were preemi-
nent.

COLONEL WILLIAM DORRINGTON.

Dorrington was a native of England * and belonged
to this Regiment of Guards from its first formation-
In the Establishment of 1687-8 he is entered on the
Pension List for £200 per annum. A tract, contem-
poraneous with the arrival of King James in Dublin,
states as in a letter from Chester, that this ill-judging
monarch had issued orders which were construed as
confiding the care and guard of his person rather to
his French auxiliaries then lately arrived, than to his
Irish adherents; that a deputation of his own officers

* O'Callaglian's Macarice Excidium, p. 419.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 417

having received no satisfactory reply, this Colonel
and twelve other chief officers went to the King
and delivered up their commissions, telling him withal
that many more were resolved to do the like. Where-
upon an arrangement was entered into, which, how-
ever, little satisfied either party. Constituted as the
King's Council was, and attended chiefly by com-
manders of the Irish, the occurrence, if truly alleged,
must have had an awful effect on the eve of the cam-
paign. Dorrington was himself of that Board, toge-
ther with the Dukes of Powis and Berwick, the Earls
of Clanricarde, Abercorn, Carlingford, and M effort,
the Lords Kilmallock, Clare, Merrion, and Kenmare ;
the English Lord Chief Justice, Sir Edward Herbert,
(who followed the King's fortune, and subsequently
became his Chancellor at St. Grermains), Colonel
Patrick Sarsfield, afterwards created by him Earl of
Lucan, and Sir Ignatius White of Limerick, Baro-
net.*

Colonel Dorrington was afterwards commissioned
by his King, immediately before the meeting of the
Parliament of Dublin, to serve at the siege of Deny,
and there was he wounded, but not so badly as long
to supersede his active duty. In the September of
that year, when King James would fain advance to
arrest the progress of his enemy in Louth, having
marched within a short distance of Dundalk, he di-
rected Colonel Dorrington with the Brigade of Guards
to come on as far as Mapletown-bridge, and resolved

* O'CallagWs Brigade, v. 1, p. 168.

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himself to encamp near that of Affane.* Dorrington
subsequently distinguished himself at the Boyne, and
was Governor of Limerick in the latter portion of that
year (1690). When Tyconnel passed over to
France, leaving the Duke of Berwick his Deputy in
the Vice-Royalty of Ireland, Brigadier Dorrington
was one of these deputed to represent to his Grace
that the power so attempted to be conferred upon
him was illegal, but that the Great Council in Lime-
rick, consisting of the Prelates, Nobles, and Officers,
were willing that he should have the civil and mili-
itary authority, provided he would admit a select
council of officers to direct his military operations, and
allow two able persons from each of the provinces to
advise him in relation to the civil, f On Tyrconnel's
return to France, Dorrington was made Major-Gene-
ral of the Army J.

Immediately before the last siege of Limerick, he
was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim,§ and
was thereupon sent up to Dublin, from thence to
Chester and at last to the Tower of London ; but was
so soon released or exchanged by the Revolutionists
as to be able to resume in France his active adherence
to the Jacobite cause. There he retained his Colonelcy
of the Royal Irish Foot Guards ; of which, in the re-
modelling, Oliver O'Gara, who had been a full Colonel in
Ireland, was constituted Lieutenant-Colonel, and

* Clarke's James II., v. 2. p. 379.
t O'Connor's Milit. Mem. p. 126.

| Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 55. § Idem, p. 137.

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419

John Roth, Major. The Regiment, then consisting of
twelve companies, was stationed on the coast of
Normandy, as part of the army designed for the inva-
sion of England in 1693 : it subsequently served in
Flanders ; and in Germany, in 1703, under Villars,
maintained a high character ; Dorrington himself
having been then raised to the rank of Lieutenant-
General. In the same year he was engaged in the
mountain campaign against the Tyrolose. In 1704,
he sustained with the French that signal discomfiture
of which O'Conor writes as " a memorable instance of
the finest army in the world annihilated by the igno-
rance of the leaders."* He again distinguished him-
self in Germany under Marshal Villars, and especially
at Ramillies in 1705. In 1709, he was engaged at
the battle of Malplaquet, and subsequently under the
same leadership until 1712. In 1718, he died at
Paris, when this Regiment was transferred to the
Compte Michael de Roth, and bore his name. This
title was again changed in 1766 to 'Roscommon,' and
in 1770 to 'Walsh's,' which it continued to bear, down
to the French Revolution.

Another Dorrington (Andrew) was Captain in the
Earl of Clancarthy's Regiment of Infantry, but
William is the only one on the Roll of Attainders,
whereon he is described as ' of Dublin.'

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 290.

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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM MAUN-
SELL BAEKEE.

This name does not seem to have been known in Ire-
land until the days of the Tudor Dynasty, neither
does it appear on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691.
By the Act of Explanation (1665) William Barker,
Esq., was restored to his estates in the County of
Limerick, and seems to have been the father of the
above Lieutenant-Colonel, who commanded the Infan-
try at the momentous battle of Aughrim. There, ac-
cording to Clarke's Memoir of James the Second, (vol.
2, p. 359), he was wounded, according to Dean
Story,* killed. A Sir William Barker being seized in
fee of lands in the County of Limerick, and also of a
manor in Essex, settled same on his marriage in
1676, and the eldest son of that marriage was another
Sir William. f

MAJOE THOMAS AETHUE,

This name appears of Irish record from the time of
Edward the Second, and Ortelius's map locates the
family in the Barony of Clanwilliam, County of

Limerick. In the year 1210, Eobert Arthur was

a benefactor to the great Abbey of St. Thomas in
Dublin. In 1486, Dr. Thomas Arthur, by birth of
Limerick City, died there Bishop of the See. In the

* Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 130.

| Appeal Cases.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 421

first Parliament of Elizabeth, Edward Arthur was one
of the members elected to represent the City. After
the Restoration, a patent of lands in the County of
Limerick to Captain John Winckworth, a Cromwel-
lian, contained a saving of the right of Dr. Thomas
Arthur to certain lands therein named, as a nominee
after reprisals. He had a similar saving in a patent
of premises in the City of Limerick, to Wentworth,
Earl of Roscommon ; while, under the Acts of Settle-
ment and Explanation, he was restored to his principal
seat and 2,000 acres of land ; as was, by the same
legislative arrangement of property, John Arthur to
the estates of his father, Alderman Arthur, with some
exceptions ; and a Patrick Arthur was likewise
thereby similarly restored. In King James's Charter
to Limerick, Nicholas Arthur was named one of the
Aldermen, while James and Thomas Arthur were of
its Burgesses. This Thomas it may be concluded was
the above Major. At the Parliament of Dublin in
1689, he sat as one of the Representatives for the Bo-
rough of Newcastle, in the County of Dublin.*

An early notice of this Thomas appears in the
" Correspondence of the Earl of Clarendon," (6th
May, 1686), when, writing to the Earl of Sunderland
he recommends " that Captain Thomas Arthur, a
Roman Catholic, who lately bought the employment,
be advanced to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the
Guards."f Early in the September of that year he

* King's MSS. in Dublin Soc.

t Singer's Correspond, vol. 2, p. 372.

422 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

was sent to Connaught by Tyrconnel to raise recruits,
but not having the Earl of Clarendon's order, he was
recalled, and this the rather " as the Captain could
command no serviceable interest in Connaught."*
Lord Clarendon, having been afterwards accused of
thus recalling Arthur, defended himself as that the
raising of men is a matter of great consequence, and
ought to be done by no authority but that of the Chief
Governor. f Besides Major Thomas, there were of the
family in this Eegiment John Arthur a Captain,
Edward and John Arthur Ensigns ; and Patrick
Arthur was a Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's
Infantry. One of these Captains was wounded at
Deny, while the above Major fell at the Boyne ;J and
Dean Story records the death of a Colonel Arthur at
the battle of Aughrim,§ who it would seem from
Lodge,|| was married to a niece of Richard, Earl of
Tyrconnel. The outlawries of 1691 include the
above Thomas, described as of Colganstown, County
of Dublin, with three others in said County, and one
in each of those of Limerick, Clare, and Kilkenny.
Various claims were made on their estates at Chi-
chester House.

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, vol. 2, pp. 578-9.
f Idem. % Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 399.

§ Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. || Peerage, v. 4, p. 160.

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CAPTAIN RICHARD FAGAN.

This family is by some considered of English descent,
while others prefix to it the Milesian ' 0.' In the
thirteenth century it was established in Meath, and
in its branches became early connected with the De
Lacys, Plunketts, and Barne walls. In 1358, John
Fagan was High Sheriff of the Liberties of Meath ;
and in 1373, was appointed Governor of the important
Castle of the Pale at Trim.

Christopher Fagan, the representative of the
Meath line, and inheritor of their estates, was induced
to lend his influence in maintaining Perkin Warbeck's
claim to the Crown. He (as it is said in an old
family pedigree, verified by wills and funeral
entries in the Office of Arms, and now preserved by
Mr. William Fagan of Cork), was slain with four of
his sons at the siege of Carlo w, when a great portion
of their Meath estates was, as confiscated, granted to
the Aylmers, Barnewalls, and other gentry of the
Pale. John, the youngest son of Christopher, was
also at Carlow, being then but 18 years of age ; he,
however, escaped the slaughter, and fled to Cork, a
city that held out strenuously for Perkin. He there
married Phillis, daughter of William Skiddy of Skiddy's
Castle in that city, by whom he had two sons, and a
daughter Phillis, who married Thomas Gould. Rich-
ard, the eldest son of Christopher, left a son Thomas
Fagan, who acquired that estate of Feltrim in the
County of Dublin from which the head of the family

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has since derived a territorial designation. His
eldest son, another Christopher, was High Sheriff of
the City of Dublin in 1565 and 1573 ; and it was
during his possession of Feltrim that the unfortunate
Earl of Desmond, being a prisoner of state in the
Castle of Dublin, and his health failing so as to need
the air of the country, this Christopher Fagan was
selected to take charge of his person at his residence.
But when it was intimated to Fagan that it would be
his duty to watch the captive, he magnanimously
replied, that the Earl would be welcome to diet and
lodging at his house, yet would he never consent to
be his keeper. Desmond, it may be added, in such li-
beral guardianship was allowed to walk abroad on his
parol ; but, abusing the privilege, he escaped into
Munster, where entering soon after into open rebellion
he was treacherously murdered.* The descendant and
namesake of this Christopher was declared a forfeit-
ing proprietor during the civil wars of 1641. On
proof, however, of his innocence, he was in 1670
decreed the possession of Feltrim, qualified into an
estate in tail-male. His death in 1682 is recorded in
a funeral entry in the Office of Arms, wherein he is
described as ' Christopher, son of Richard, son of John,
son of Richard ;' that he died 12th February, 1682-3,
and was buried in St. Audoens' Church, Dublin ;
having married Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas White
of Leixlip, by whom he had several children, of whom
(says the record) Richard and Peter are now living,

* D'Alton's History of the Co. Dublin, pp. 211-12.

THE RING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 425

and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Lord Stra-
bane [and who became mother by him of Claud, fourth
Earl of Abercorn, Colonel of a Eegiment of Horse in
this Army, as before noticed]. The Eicharcl here
mentioned was the above Captain, and he married
Ellen, daughter of Thomas Aylmer of Lyons, by
whom he had one daughter, Anna-Maria. Eichard's
uncle, John Fagan, became the founder of that
Munster line in which the representation is now
preserved ; and his son Christopher was, as hereafter
noticed, a Captain in Lord Kenmare's Infantry ;
while in Sir Michael Creagh's, Patrick 4 Ffagan ' was
also a Captain. The Attainders of 1691 exhibit the
names of Thomas Fagan of Kinsale, Bryan ' O'Fegan'
of Drumgagh, County of Down, clerk ; Manus
4 O'Fegan ' of Clonallon, County of Down ; with
Eichard Fagant, described as of Drakestown, County
of Meath, and Feltrim, County of Dublin. The value
of the latter's estate alone was so considerable, that
an inquiry into its circumstances was directed in
1690-1, Avith the object of presenting it as a royal
boon to Sir Eobert Southwell.* The sale of all his
estates ultimately brought in not less than £100,000,
out of which only his wife's jointure and his daugh-
ters' portions (for he died without male issue) were
allowed to be paid ; viz. £1,000 for his eldest daugh-
ter Anne, and £400 for each of his other daughters,
Elizabeth and Helen. They were all minors at the

* Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 213.

426 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

time of the claims made. Helen afterwards married
John Taylor of Swords, ante, p. 379.

A James Fagan passed after the Revolution into
the Spanish service, where he was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Harnel's Regiment. He
married the heiress of the House of Turges in Lor-
raine, and was living in 1722.* See further of this
family at Christopher Fagan, a Captain in Lord Ken-
mare's Infantry.

CAPTAINS SIR LUKE, PATRICK, AND
EDWARD DOWDALL.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
King Edward the Third. In 1446, Robert Dowdall
of Newtown-Termonfeckin, County of Louth, was ap-
pointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ire-
land. His son Thomas was Master of the Rolls in
1488, and James Dowdall was appointed in 1583
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. An imprinted Act
of Resumption of 1468 contains a saving of the rights
of the aforesaid Robert Dowdall. Edward Dowdall of
Glaspistol was one of the Representatives of the
County of Louth in Queen Elizabeth's first Parlia-
ment ; and Laurence Dowdall of Athlumney and
Nicholas Dowdall of Brownstown attended the cele-
brated meeting on the hill of Crofty. The Attainders
of 1642 present the names of this Nicholas, Walter of

* Fagan MSS.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 427

Athboy, and Laurence of Athlumney. The latter was
of the Confederate Catholics who adhered to the King
at the meeting in Kilkenny, and he was accordingly
excepted from pardon for life or estate in Cromwell's
Act of 1652. In a grant of Athlumney as forfeited
property to William Kidges in 1666, a saving was
inserted " of such right and no other as should be ad-
judged due to Sir Luke Dowdall, Knight, as a nomi-
nee in the town and lands of Athlumney." Besides
these Captains, there appear upon this List another
Edward Dowdall a Quarter-Master, and Joseph
Dowdall an Ensign in Lord Louth's Kegiment of
Infantry ; while a John Dowdall, who does not appear
upon it, was, after its date, appointed Major of Lord
'Bellew's' Infantry. The list of names for the
Shrievalties in Ireland, sent over to Lord Clarendon
the Viceroy, contained for the County of Meath the
name of Launcelot Dowdall, with the observation, 1 a
factious caballing whig ; ' to which Clarendon replied
in comment, ' This gentleman is of an ancient Eng-
lish family in that county, where he behaves himself
with great sobriety, and is so far from being a favour-
ite of the whigs or caballing with them, that they are
dissatisfied with his. being Sheriff, concluding him a
friend to the old natives of the County.'*

John Dowdall was one of the Kepresentatives of the
Borough of Dundalk in the Parliament of 1689, as
was Henry Dowdall, Recorder of Drogheda, for that
ancient town. This latter it was who, in duty of his

* Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 286.

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office, delivered that address of its Corporation to
King James, when entering the town on the 7th of
April, 1689, which is preserved in the Anihologia
Hibernica, (vol. 1, p. 42). The Attainders of 1691
comprise the names of the above Sir Luke, described
as Lucas Dowdall of Old Connaught, County of Dub-
lin, and of Dublin City ; Patrick of ISFavan, mer-
chant ; and Edward of Dublin and Moate ; besides
James Dowdall of Navan, merchant, George of
Cluncestown, Stephen of Athboy, Henry of BroAvns-
town and Drogheda, Joseph and Matthew of Cloran,
County of Westmeath, and Sylvester, son of Matthew
of said last mentioned place. Patrick of Dundalk
and Termonfeckin, John of Dundalk, Christopher and
John of Drogheda, merchants, Peter of Ardee, clerk,
and Walter Dowdall of Drumshallon, clerk.

Sir Lucas forfeited in Meath extensive estates, off
which his widow, Dame Katherine, claimed dower, but
was dismist, as were alike the claims of their
children Anne, Thomasine, and Mary Dowdall for
portions, and that of Daniel Dowdall, his son and

heir, by his guardian, for a fee therein. Margaret

Dowdall claimed in her own right and was allowed
the benefit of sundry debts due to her, but 'put out' in
the name of Patrick Dowdall, who was attainted ;
while she also claimed as one of the executors of
Lady Jane Dowdall a mortgage debt affecting the
County of Longford estate of said Patrick Dowdall.
Lady Alice Dowdall, otherwise Nugent, one of the
daughters of Richard, late Earl of Westmeath, claimed

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

429

a jointure of £180 off the Meath estates of Henry
Dowdall — clismist. Joseph Dowdall sought and was
allowed an estate tail in Westmeath lands forfeited by-
Matthew Dowdall ; and Redmond Dowdall, and Mary
his wife, claimed an estate tail in County of Limerick
lands forfeited by Tobias and John Dowdall, as did
said Mary her dower off these estates as the widow of
Tobias and under his will of 25th August, 1688. — —
The estates of Sir Lucas were subsequently sold in
lots to John Preston of Ardsallagh, Robert Rochfort,
her Majesty's Attorney-General, Michael Shields of
Wainstown, John Drury of Dublin, and Richard
Gorges, Esq. the patentee of Kilrue.

In the engagement at Lauffield village in 1747,
Lieutenant Dowdall, then ranking in Berwick's
Brigade, was wounded.

CAPTAIN SIR GREGORY BYRNE.

The O'Byrnes were the formidable Chieftains of that
last subjugated district of Ireland, now the County of
Wicklow ; the present Barony of Ballinacor and the
Rainilogh were possessed exclusively by them, and
they, with the O'Tooles, the territorial Lords of the
remainder of this County, maintained for nearly four
centuries an unceasing war against Dublin and the
English Pale. So early after the introduction of sur-
names as 1119 the Four Masters record the death of
Aodh O'Brin (Byrne), Lord of East Leinster, and when

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

afterwards Dermot McMurrough invited the English
invasion, the O'Byrne, who was, in the adjustment of
Irish government, his tributary, although Dermot
confided in him as his last hope, renounced his allegi-
ance, and unhesitatingly opposed the invaders ; when,
being brought before 4 Strongbow,' he was condemned
to death. In 1176, Malachy O'Byrne died Bishop of
Kildare. Murrough ' Mac Byrn ' of Eainilough and
Connor 1 O'Brin ' were of the Irish Chiefs, to whom
Henry the Third directed a special requisition for re-
pairing to his standard, and assisting him with their
forces against the King of Scotland.* In 1398,
Eoger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, and Lord
of Dunamase, was killed when endeavouring to reduce
this mountain Sept ; a catastrophe which induced the
second visit of the unfortunate Eichard the Second to
Ireland, when the O'Byrne was fain to yield him ho-
mage.f In 1535, Lord Leonard Grey received inti-
mation that one of the Fitzgeralds, uniting with Lord
Baltinglas and a Chieftain of the O'Byrnes, had taken
their station in the valleys of Glendalough, that their
numbers were daily increasing, and 4 their excursions
were pestilent and audacious.' In two years after,
however, the O'Byrne made his submission to Lord
Grey. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, the celebrated
Feagh Mac Hugh was the Captain of the O'Byrnes ;
he it was whom Spencer commemorates, " so far
emboldened as to threaten peril even to Dublin, over

Kymers Fcedera.

f Davis's Hist. Eel. p. 22.

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whose neck he continually hung." His capture and
escape are well narrated by the Four Masters.

Two cruel Inquisitions were held at Newcastle, in
the County of Dublin in 1604, by operation of which
the estates of upwards of eighty of the O'Byrnes of
Wicklow were declared forfeited to the Crown ; many
of them, as appears by the finding, having been killed
or taken prisoners and hanged by martial law during
the rebellion, which broke out 2nd of September, 36th
Elizabeth. In two years after, eighty-five others of
this devoted mountain Sept felt it necessary in pru-
dence to pay the fines and charges for patents of
pardon. The Attainders of 1642 include one
hundred and fifty-six O'Byrnes in their old County,
with four in Dublin, three in the County of Kildare,
and one in Carlow. The Kilkenny Assembly of Con-
federate Catholics was attended by Hugh 4 Brin ' of
Corinnon, Bryan 6 Burne ' of Ballinacor, Bryan of
Rodine, James of Ballyaude, and John of Ballyglann.
Cromwell's Denunciation Act of 1652 excepts two of
these Confederates, there described as Hugh Mac
Phelim and Bryan Mac Phelim Byrne, both of the
County of Wicklow, from pardon for life and estate.
In the Record Tower of Dublin Castle is a petition of
Phelim Byrne, soon after the Restoration, to recover
his ancient inheritance in Wicklow ; but it does not
seem to have been effective.

The above Captain Sir Gregory Byrne was resident
at Tymogue in the Queen's County ; in 1669, he
married Margaret Copley, sister and co-heiress of Sir

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Christopher Copley, and grand-daughter of the first
Viscount Eanelagh ; in two years after he was
created a Baronet, and in 1685 his Lady died, leav-
ing issue by him an only son Daniel. Sir Gregory
was attainted in 1691 ; nevertheless, at the Court of
Chichester House he claimed estates in fee in divers
lands in the Queen's County, and in plots and houses
in Dublin ; but the claim was dismist as cautionary ;
while some other interests in the City and County of
Dublin were allowed to him. He married to his
second wife Alice Fleming, only daughter of Randal
Lord Slane, by the Lady Penelope Moore, daughter of
Henry, Earl of Drogheda ; (the grand-daughter of
this union, having married into the family of Bryan
of Jenkinstown, her son sought to establish title to
the dormant title of Slane as heir general of Christo-
pher Lord Slane, and on the extinction of all interme-
diate issue). Besides this Captain, there are on the

present ' List ' Garret and John Byrne, Captains in
the Earl of Westmeath's Infantry. The former was
afterwards adjudged within the Articles of Limerick.
In the Parliament of Dublin, Hugh Byrne sat as one
of the Representatives of the Borough of Carysfort,
and Thomas Byrne as one of that of Wicklow. Sir
Gregory was outlawed on four Inquisitions in Dublin,
Meath, and the Queen's County ; while the scattered
quantity of these political attainders in 1692, in rela-
tion to the O'Byrnes, powerfully evinces the dispersion
from their native mountain fastnesses, to which this
devoted race were within a few years after its reduc-

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 433

tion subjected. Nineteen of these Inquisitions were
held in the County of Wicklow, eight in Carlo w,
seven in Westmeath, three in Meath, Dublin, and
Wexford respectively, two in the Queen's County, and
one in Louth ; while even in such remote settlements
as Derry and Galway two occur in the former and
one in the latter. At the Court of Claims, besides
those so made by Sir Gregory Byrne, Garret Byrne
claimed the tithes of Kectories in Wicklow forfeited by
Hugh Byrne, — dismist for non-prosecution. Off the
forfeitures of Walter Byrne in the City of Dublin,
his widow claimed and was allowed an estate for life
under settlement of 1682 ; and Edmund Byrne
claimed and was allowed the fee of some estates of
Thady Byrne in the Barony of Arklow, County of
Wicklow.

In 1707, Dr. Edmund Byrne was the Eoman Ca-
tholic Archbishop of Dublin. A proclamation issued
in 1712 for his apprehension, as well as of others
" who attempted to exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction
contrary to the laws of the kingdom."* In 1746,
' Cornet Byrne' was one of the rebel officers taken
prisoner at sea, being in the 'Pretender's' service on
board the Charite.f In 1757, Colonel O'Byrne was
a distinguished officer in the Austrian service ; he
died in 1813.

* Hardiman's Galway, pp. 275-7.
t Gent. Mag. ad annum, p. 145.

434 king james's irish army list.

CAPTAIN BAETHOLOMEW RUSSELL.

This name is of Irish record from the earliest period
after the Invasion, while the Four Masters relate the
death of Actin Kussell in a battle between the Burkes
and O'Conors in 1263. In 1594, Sir William Rus-
sell was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, when his
earliest movement was directed against the O'Byrnes
at their stronghold of Ballinacor. The Attainders of
1642 comprise the names of Thomas Russell Ruagh
of Rush, Christopher Russell of Seatown, Andrew
Russell of Swords, Patrick of Brownstown, Nicholas
of Collinstown, Thomas of Dry nam, and Francis of
Kilrush, all in the County of Dublin ; with Patrick
Russell of Rodanstown, County of Meath. In 1646,
George Russell of Rathmolin was one of the Confede-
rate Catholics assembled at Kilkenny.

A short time before the accession of King James,
Dr. Patrick Russell (of the family that, as shown by
the above attainders, was congregated about the
ancient town of Swords,) was appointed the Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin, in which dignity he continued
during that monarch's reign. In 1685, he held the
first Provincial Council at Dublin that had been
known for many years ; and Lord Clarendon, then
Viceroy, writing at that time to the Earl of Rochester
one of his state letters, says of this prelate, " He has
been with me, seems to be a good man, but no poli-
tician ; he is a secular."* In the peaceful course of

* Singer's Corresp. v. 1, p. 387.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 435

his life he continued, by synods and councils and
visitations, to inculcate humility and attention in his
clergy, and virtue and loyalty in their flocks."*
During his King's residence in the Irish metropolis, he
performed the service and rites of his church con-
stantly in the Royal presence ; the last permitted
occasion of these solemnities having been for the
consecration of a Benedictine nunnery in Dublin.
On the downfall of the Stuart dynasty, he fled to
Paris, whence however he returned to close his life in
the land of his birth and ministry. At the termi-
nation of the year 1692 he died, and was buried in the
venerable church of Lusk near Swords. While he
was Primate, his principal residence was in the old
chapel-house at Francis-street, by the Fraternity of
which establishment an ancient censer is preserved
exhibiting the inscription, " Orate pro Patricio
Russell, Archiepiscopo Dublinice, Primati Hibeimice
et pro ejus fratre Jacobo Russell, Decano DiMinice
et Prothonotario Apostolico, qui me fieri fecit "f
During King James's reign he enjoyed a pension of
£200 per annum charged on the Irish Exchequer.
The above Captain Bartholomew Russell was the pro-
prietor of Seatown, County of Dublin, by which de-
scription he was attainted in 1691 ; while there
appear on this Army List Garret and Thomas Russell,
Ensigns in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry (the latter
described on his attainder as of Ballymacscanlon,
County of Louth), and Christopher Russell (described

* D' Alton's Archbishops of Dublin, p. 454. f Idem. p. 456"

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as of Seatown, County of Dublin) a Captain in Colonel
Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry.

The Attainders of 1691, besides the above officers,
include the names of Valentine Eussell of Quoniams-
town, James of Russelstown, County of Westmeath,
Robert of Drynam (who had been one of the Repre-
sentatives of Swords in the Parliament of 1689), and
eight other Russells in the Counties of Cork, Water-
ford, Down, and Louth. Captain Bartholomew
forfeited much about Swords and in the Barony of
Nethercross. Thomas's confiscations were of portions
of the Rectorial tithes of Julianstown, Platten, and
Dunany. Valentine's comprised extensive estates
in the County of Down, in which his son Patrick
Russell, then a minor, claimed an estate tail as
did his mother Mary Russell, alias Hanlon, by
Hugh Hanlon her Trustee, a rent charge in lieu of
dower under marriage articles of February, 1683.
Their petitions do not, however, appear to have been
allowed, and a portion of his estates, including Quon-
iamstown was sold by the Commissioners of the For-
feitures in 1703 to Robert Echlin of Rush, Esq.
Bridget, the only child and heiress of Robert Russell
of Drynam, married Andrew Cruise of the Naul
family. See post, at Captain Francis Cruise, in the
Earl of Tyrone's Infantry.

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CAPTAIN THOMAS HACKETT.

This name 4 Hecket ' occurs on the Roll of Battle
Abbey as of one of the Knights who attended the Con-
queror from Normandy. His race early extended
over Worcestershire and Yorkshire. One of his
decendants, Paganus Hacket, came over to Ireland
with the English Invasion. He witnessed an en-
dowment from Hugh Tyrrell to the priory of Kilmain-
ham about 1180, and acquired a grant of lands in the
district of Wicklow still known by the name of
Hacketstown,* which remained in his line until their
adhesion to the Earl of Desmond caused its confis-
cation in the time of Queen Elizabeth. In 1200,
Rowland Hacket was seised of lands near Kinsale
County of Dublin ;f and in 1250, William Hacket

founded the Franciscan Friary, in Cashel. In

1302, John and Robert 'Haket' were of the 'Fideles'
of Ireland, whose services were sought by special
Royal mandate for the war in Scotland. J About the
same time, Robert and Walter Haket received similar
recognitions of the King's confidence,§ the latter
being entrusted with the custody of Newcastle
Mac Kinegan near Delgany. In 1356, Andrew
Hakett was Sheriff and Escheator of the County of
Cross-Tipperary. At the Battle of Agincourt, Rich-
ard Hakett was one of the Knights in the Duke of

* Lynch's Feudal Dignities, p. 255.
f Arclidalfs Monasticon, p. 152.

X Parliamentary Writs. § "Roll in Irish Chancery.

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Gloucester's retinue, as was another Eichard in Sir
Henry Hussey's, and a Walter Haket in Sir William
Bourchier's.* In 1460, David Haket was Bishop of
Ossoiy ; and in 1484, Peter Haket was Archbishop
of Cashel. In the sixteenth century, and it would
seem anterior to it,, a branch of this family was estab-
lished in the county of Galway, and erected a castle
on a townland of that district which still bears the
name of Castle-Hacket. By Inquisition of 1584, it
was found that Ulick Mac Eedmond Mac Meyler died
in 1571, seised of the castles of Castle-Hacket and
Cahir-Morris ; but that Mac Hacket, the chief of his
name, and others of the Sept of the Rackets, claimed
the aforesaid Castle of Castle-Hacket, with the two
quarters of land adjoining, f

The Attainders of 1642 comprise but one individual
in the old County, described as George Hackett of
Ballinahensy, County of Wicklow ; about which
time Thomas Hackett was transplanted to Connaught,
and others of the na me settled in the County of Mayo,
where they seem now extinct. In 1672, Thomas
Hacket succeeded to the Sees of Down and Connor.
In 1678, Thomas Hacket, described as of Dublin,
merchant, an especial friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel,
had a grant of upwards of 1,000 statutable acres in
the Barony of Clare, County of Galway, with cer-
tain savings. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689),
Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down and Connor, was
one of the spiritual Peers ; while in the Commons, Sir

* Nicholas's Agincourt. f Hardiman's Galway, p. 21.

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Thomas Hacket represented Portarlington, as did
Alderman James the City of Cashel. Another Hac-
kett (James) appears on this Army List a Lieutenant
in Colonel Thomas Butler's Infantry. When King-
James, after the Boyne, fled from Dublin through the
hills of Wicklow, he stopped for a few hours with some
followers at the house of a Mr. Hackett near Arklow,
whence he proceeded to Duncannon, arriving there
about sunrise. According to Archbishop King, a
Captain Robert Hacket was one of those who followed
the fortunes of James to France.

In 1691, was attainted Thomas Hackett, de-
scribed as of Cloncullen, with five others of the name.
It does not appear how far the estates of this Thomas
Hackett were affected by attainder, but by a Private
Act of the Irish Parliament in 1706, explained by
another of 1708, those of Sir Thomas Hacket were
vested in Trustees for the payment of his debts.

CAPTAIN THOMAS WARREN.

This ■ name is ' of record in Ireland early in the reign
of Edward the Second, from which time it extended
its branches over all the Counties of the Pale. The
Attainders of 1642 present the names of six Warrens.
Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646,
were Alexander Warren, then styled of Churchtown ;
Edward Warren, ' late of Dublin,' and William War-
ren of Casheltown. About the year 1667, William

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and John Warren of Corduff joined in conveying a
parcel of Castleknock to the Crown, for the purpose
of enlarging the Phoenix Park. This William War-
ren, as appears by Inquisition of 1687, was seised of
upwards of 283 acres in Upper Castleknock, 51 in
Carpenterstown, and 58 in Lacken, which he had
settled in tail-mail on his nephew, the above Captain
Thomas, by deed of 22nd March, 1669.

It is of legal record that Lord Dongan, whom James
the Second afterwards created Earl of Limerick, leased
in 1688 lands in the County of Kildare to a Maurice
Warren for his life, and the lives of his nephews Ed-
ward and William Warren, with covenant for per-
petual renewal. William died in the camp of D un-
ci alk, while the lessor was in the Irish Army, and
Maurice himself (the lessee) died in 1691, when Gil-
bert, the eldest son of Maurice, entered on the lands,
but was unable to obtain a renewal, by reason that
the Earl of Athlone, the Patentee of the estates of the
attainted Earl of Limerick, was absent from Ireland.
On the establishment of 1687-8, a Mrs. Mary Warren
appears for a pension of £80. Thomas Warren was
then Sheriff of Dublin, as he was again in the year
of King James's sojourn there. He was attainted in
1691, by the description of Thomas Warren of Cor-
duff, County of Dublin, and of Warrenstown, County
of Meath. Besides this officer there appear of the
name on this Army List, John Warren a Captain,
and Kichard Warren a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice
Eustace's Infantry. In Lord Bophin's, Laurence

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 441

Warren was a Lieutenant. In Sir Michael Creagh's,
Edward was a Captain, as was Nicholas in Sir Charles
Cavenagh's (but appointed subsequent to the date of
the present Army List.) Said Captain John War-
ren was Sheriff of Dublin in 1686 ; in 1689 he was
a Deputy Lieutenant of the County, and in the Par-
liament of that year represented the Borough of Car-
low. He was attainted as of 4 Warrenstown, County
of Meath,' and also of Carlow, but his forfeitures lay
chiefly in the Queen's County, and in the County and
Town of Carlow. At the Court of Claims, Maurice
Warren claimed some judgment debts as affecting
the Carlow estate of John, some of which were allowed;
while Henry Warren claimed and was allowed a mort-
gage in fee on said property; and subject to these
charges his lands were sold in 1703 to Colonel Went-
worth Hardman, and to Walter Welclon of Eahin, as
were the town plots to Charles Bouleey. There were
also attainted in 1692 Patrick, James, and Michael
Warren, described as of Warrenstown, County of
Meath ; and Richard Warren of Carlow.

CAPTAINS WALTER AND GEORGE NANGLE.

" This," says Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed
Gentry, " is one of the most ancient Anglo-Norman
families in Ireland." Amongst the Knights who
accompanied Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke,
(Strongbow) to that country in 1169, were Gilbert

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de Angulo and his two sons Jocelyn and Hostilio.
From the latter descends the family of de Costello,
called Mac Hostilio or Mac Costello. Gilbert de An-
gulo obtained the territory of Maherigallen and other
lands in Meath ; whilst his eldest son Jocelyn acquired
Navan and the lands of Ardbraccan, whence his lineal
successors, the Nangles, were subsequently styled
Barons of Navan. His descendant in the fourteenth
generation, Sir Thomas Nangle, Baron of Navan,
married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jenico, third
Viscount Gormanstown, by Catherine, eldest daughter
of Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare ; and had issue by
her eight sons, the youngest of whom, Walter N angle
of Kildalkey in the County of Meath, was grandfather
of the above Captain Walter, who was himself father
of Captain George, as well as of Edward, a Lieutenant
herein, and of Garret or Gerald, a Lieutenant in Sir
Michael Creagh's Infantry. Captain Walter had
been Sheriff of Meath in 1687, and was one of the
Eepresentatives of the Borough of Trim in the Parlia-
ment of 1689.

In 1605, Eobert Nangle obtained a grant or con-
firmation from King James of the Manor and Castle
of Ballysax, with divers lands and tithes in the
Counties of Kildare and Tipper ary, ' in due acknow-
ledgment,' as was recited in the patent, of his wounds
and losses sustained in his several services of extra-
ordinary merit to the Crown. He was, however,
attainted in 1642, together with Matthew Nangle,
also styled of Ballysax, Eoland of Ardrass, Peter of

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Naas, clerk ; Thomas Nangle, otherwise Baron of
Navan, and Jocelyn Nangle of Kildalkey (the yonnger
brother of the above Captain Walter). In 1646,
Eoger Nangle, styled of Glynmore, was of the Con-
federate Catholics in the Supreme Council. On this
Army List, besides the Nangles in this Kegiment,
Eobert Nangle is mentioned by Mr. O'Callaghan as
having been a Major in Tyrconnel's Eegiment. He
was killed near Eaphoe in the skirmishes that pre-
ceded the siege of Deny. Walker, in his Diary of
the siege, writes (p. 62) that " Major Nangle was
drowned coming over at Lifford." The Inquisition of
Attainder on said Eobert Nangle bears date in Sep-
tember, 1694, and finds him seised of various estates
in the County of Westmeath. In King James's New
Charters, John Nangle was appointed Portrieve in that
to Navan, while Walter was one of its Burgesses. In
another to Trim, Walter, George, and Edward Nangle
were Burgesses, as was Walter in a third to Athboy.

Sir Eichard Nagle before alluded to (p. 147), where
the present notices should have been introduced, is
mentioned by Lord Clarendon * as " Eichard Nangle,
a lawyer, a Eoman Catholic, and a man of the best re-
putation for learning as well as honesty amongst the
people f and when, in May, 1686, he was ap-
pointed one of King James's Council, Lord Claren-
don, in a letter to the Duke of Ormond, thus com-
mented : " I do a little wonder to find Mr. Nan-
gle's name among them, though he be a very honest

* Singer's Corresp. of Ld. Clarendon, v. 1, p. 273.

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and able man. Yet it is very extraordinary to
have a practising lawyer a Privy Councillor ; and
will not be very decent for him to follow his practice
or to quit his profession ; I believe he will not like it.
I am sure he had no mind to be a judge, and I believe
he will be as little pleased with this preferment."*
Again, " I have not heard it was yet ever done but to
Sir Francis Bacon, when he was Attorney-General ;
and to satisfy his ambition by the credit he had with
the Duke of Buckingham, or rather by importunity
he was made a Privy Councillor, but never appeared
afterwards in Westminster Hall, unless the King's
business required him."f Nangle (Nagle) declined
the honor, and the King accepted his resignation.

The Attainders of 1691 comprise the above Walter
and George, together with Edward Nangle of Kil-
dalkey, Francis of Harberston, John of Navan, Gerald
of Mayne, Piers of Kilmihill, and Robert Nangle, all
of the County of Westmeath. At the Court of
Chichester House, Walter Nangle claimed and was
allowed an estate tail in Meath lands forfeited by the
above Captain Walter, as did Margaret Nangle her
jointure off said estate, and also off Walter's West-
meath estates ; while Penelope Nangle claimed a
jointure and her son Eobert (a minor) an estate tail
in the Westmeath lands of Robert Nangle. A great
portion of Captain Walter Nangle's estate in Meath
was afterwards sold to John Asgill of Dublin, as were

* Singer's Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, vol. 1, p. 411.
f Idem. p. 417.

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445

Eobert Nangle's estates in Westmeath to the Hollow
Swords Blades' Company.

CAPTAIN JOHN SEGEAVE.

The name of Segrave or Sedgrave is of record in
Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, their
chief seat being early recorded as at Killeglan in the
County of Meath. See further of this name post, at
Captain Francis Segrave, in Sir Maurice Eustace's
Infantry., In a confirmatory grant of 1668, of lands
and premises in various counties to Charles Viscount
Fitz-Harding, the rights of John Segrave to certain
houses and plots within the Manor of Eathmore were
especially saved, and he may possibly be the above
Captain, afterwards attainted as of Cabra, County of
Dublin, and Burtonstown, County of Meath. He was,
however, adjudged within the Articles of Limerick.
Besides this Captain John, there appear on the Army
List said Francis, a Captain, and Laurence Segrave,
his Lieutenant, in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry.
The attainders of 1691 present the names of the
above Captain and John Segrave, with those of
Gilbert and Nicholas Segrave of Ballyhack, County of
Meath, and Francis Segrave of Fryarstown and of
Eosberry, County of Kildare.

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CAPTAIN SIP ANTHONY MULLEDT.

The O'Mulledy's were an ancient sept of the King's
County and Westmeath, located near Garry-Castle.
In 1447, Cornelius O'Mulledy succeeded to the See of
Clonfert, whence in the following year he was trans-
lated to that of Emly. The only individual of the name
attainted in 1642 was styled Patrick 0' ' Mullady,
Baronet, of Ballinver, County of Meath. A letter is
extant of the 10th of August, 1690, from the Wil-
liamite Colonel Wolseley to Secretary Southwell,
6 from the camp near Mullingar ;' in which he says,
" We had advices from Colonel Babington that 2,000

of the enemy were got together at Tyrrelspass,

they advanced with about 120 Horse, ' who' our men

charged and broke ; the night came upon us or

else we had done great execution; as it was, we killed
between 80 and 100, and have taken prisoners three
of the greatest rogues amongst them, viz. Andrew
Tuite, James Ledwich, and Redmund Mulledy, late
Sheriff for King James. They are no soldiers nor
have any commission for what they do, and therefore
I have a great mind to hang them if His Majesty will
either give orders for it or say nothing about it, but
leave me to myself ; for I am well assured that an
Irishman is to be taught his duty only by the rod.
Tuite's father holds out a garrison now in an island
within two miles of this place. I conceive the whole
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447

the present Sheriff for King James, headed them."*
Dean Story reports the transaction as that " one
Mulledy, late High Sheriff of Longford, got at least
3,000 of rabble or sneh like near Mullingar, where
they hectored and swaggered for some days," adding,
that Colonel Wolseley fell in with the party and killed
about thirty of them, " High Sheriff Mulledy being
wounded and never since able to raise such a 6 posse
comitatus.' " Those of this name attainted in 1691
were the above Anthony Mulledy, described as of
Eobertstown, Knight ; Eedmund Mulledy of Grange-
more, and Hugh Mulledy of Eathwyre, in the County
of Westmeath ; John Mulledy of Dublin, and John
Mulledy of Ballintobber, County of Mayo. The estates
of Eedmund and Hugh Mulledy, comprising the
Lordship of Eathwyre and various other lands, &c,
in the County of Westmeath, were sold by the Com-
missioners of Forfeited Estates to Chichester Phillips
of Drumcondra, County of Dublin, and a larger
proportion to Eobert Pakenham of Bracklyn. Those
of the above Captain Sir Anthony lay in the Baronies
of Dunboyne and Eatoath, County of Meath.

CAPTAIN THOMAS ARUNDEL.

This name is of Irish record from the time of Edward
the Second. Several links in the pedigree of Arun-
dells of Main, in the County of Limerick, in the 17th

* Clarke's MSS. Correspondence, Trin. Coll. Liby. Lett, lxxxiii.

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century, are given in a genealogical manuscript in
Trinity College, Dublin (F 3, 27). In the Munster
war of 1600, Paul Arundel was a Captain in Lord
Audley's Regiment of Infantry. The Attainders of
1642 present the names of Garret Arundel and Garret
Oge Arundel, both described as of Aghdullane, County
of Cork. Lord Henry, the third Baron Arundell of
Wardour, who was one of the persons committed to
prison in 1678 on the information of the infamous
Titus Gates, after suffering five years' incarceration,
was released, and on King James's accession to the
throne was sworn of the Privy Council. In the fol-
lowing year he was constituted Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal, and honored with the order of the Bath.
In the will which King James executed at Whitehall,
on the eve of his abdication, 17th November, 1688,
he appointed this nobleman the adviser of his Queen,
and he is one of the witnesses to the instrument.
On that King's departure, Lord Arundel, retiring
from public life, secluded himself at Breamore in
Wilts, where he died 28th December, 1694:* The
above Captain Arundel fell at the battle of the Boyne.f

LIEUTENANT THOMAS WAFER.

The Attainders of 1642 name amongst the forfeiting
proprietors Francis Wafer of Gyanstown, County of

* Burke's Peerage, p 36. | Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 399.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 449

Meath, and those of 1691 have the same name as of
Castletown in said County.

LIEUTENANT JOHN EDWARDS.

Though this name is of Irish record since the time of
the Tudors, nothing worthy of notice connected with
this individual has been discovered.

LIEUTENANT EDMUND FAHY.

THE-OTahys were an ancient sept of the County of
Galway, while the only notice attainable here is of an
Adjutant Fahy, who, according to Walker,* was
killed at Derry.

LIEUTENANT JOHN CLANCY.

This was the name of a clan tributary to the O'Bryan,
yet in the time of Elizabeth so influential, that in
Clare, Boetius ' Glanchy' was one of the Representa-
tives of that County in Sir John Perrot's Parliament
of 1585, and was afterwards its Sheriff. The name
of this Lieutenant does not appear on the Attainders
of 1692, which suggests that he may have fallen in
the campaign. Those outlawries have the names of

* Siege of Derry, p. 36.

450 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Murtough and James Clancy of Knocklane, and another
Boetius Clancy of 4 Glancan,' both in said County.

LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHEK WELDON.

This name is of record on Irish Rolls from the time
of Richard the Second ; and James Weldon, described
as of Newry, was of the Confederate Catholics at
Kilkenny in 1647.

LIEUTENANT EDMUND BRENNAN. .

The Mac Brannans were chiefs of Corcaghlan, a dis-
trict of the County of Roscommon, forming part of
that in which is the well-known mountain Slieye-
Ban. So early as in the year 1150, the Masters
record the death of Maolisa Brannan, Archdeacon of
Deny ; and in 1159 that of Branan Mac Branan,
chief of Corcaighlann, in a battle between the O'Conors
and O'Briens. The Kilkenny Supreme Council of 1646
had of its Commons, John Brennan, styled of Cloyne-
finlough.

LIEUTENANT DAYID NIHILL.

Besides this officer, a Peter 1 Nihill' was Lieutenant
in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. On the Attainders of
1691 are the names of James Nihill of Limerick and

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 451

Dublin, and the above David Nihill, styled of the
Barony of Tulla, County of Clare. In the lands of
the latter, Laurence Nihill claimed an estate tail, but
was disniist, while Elinor Nihill, alias Hackett, as his
widow and executrix, sought and was allowed a third
part of his Clare estates, as in pursuance of his will
of 1683 ; and Eobert Woulfe made a claim thereon
for the portion of his wife Anstace, a daughter of said
David. At the battle of Lauffield in 1746, Lieutenant
Nihill, of Dillon's Regiment, was killed.

LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER AND ENSIGN
MATTHEW TAAFFE.

This Cambrian name is of record in Ireland from the
time of the English invasion. In 1287 flourished
Sir Nicholas Taaffe, whose son John Taaffe was by the
Pope's provision consecrated Archbishop of Armagh.
He died at Rome in 1306, after taking the mitre, but
never saw his see.* In 1295, Richard Taaffe was
Sheriff of Dublin, and, in 1311, a member of the Par-
liament of Kilkenny. In 1373 and 1375, Richard
Taaffe of Ballybragan and John Taaffe were summoned
to Great Councils ; and in 1376, John Taaffe of
Castle-Lumnagh was Sheriff of Louth. In 1479/ Sir
Laurence Taaffe, the descendant of the above Sir
Nicholas, was one of the honorable fraternity of St.

* Ware's Bishops, p. 71.

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George in Ireland on its first institution ; and in
1560, Nicholas Taaffe of Ballybragan was Sheriff of
Louth.*

In 1628, Sir John Taaffe of this family was ad-
vanced to the Peerage by the titles of Baron of
Ballymote and Viscount Corran, in the County of
Sligo. His eldest son Theobald was created Earl of
Carlingford in 1661 ; his second son Lucas Taaffe was
a Major-General in the Irish Army during the Com-
monwealth, was appointed Governor of Ross in 1649,
and defended that town against Cromwell, but, being
subsequently obliged to expatriate himself, served as a
Colonel in Italy and Spain, whence on the Eestoration
he returned and died in Ireland, f On the Attainders
of 1642, the only Taaffe is Laurence Taaffe, described
as of ' Killen,' County of Meath. Cromwell's Ordi-
nance of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and
estate Theobald, ' Viscount Taaffe of Corran,' and
Luke Taaffe, his brother. In 1665, by the operation
of the Act of Settlement, the aforesaid Lucas, by the
style of Colonel Lucas Taaffe, and Elizabeth his wife,
were restored to the " jointure, portions, lands, &c,
which she or any for her use had held and enjoyed
while Theobald his brother, the Viscount, was likewise
restored to his estates, and directed to have and enjoy
to him and his heirs the manors, lands, &c, whereof

Christopher Taaffe of Bryanstown and Taaffe of

Cockston were seised on the 23rd of October, 1641.

* See Dalton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 162.
f Burke's Extinct Peerage.

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He had likewise a pension of £800 per annum on
the establishment, with other substantial marks of
Royal favour, and died in December, 1677. His son
Nicholas was a Colonel in this campaign, but not on
the present Army List. In Eing James's Charters
of 1697, John Taaffe was one of the Burgesses in that
to Sligo ; as Avere John 4 Taafe,' merchant, George,
Peter, Nicholas, and another John in one to the
Borough of Ardee.

Besides those of the name in this Regiment, Nicho-
las Taaffe was a Cornet in Tyrconnel's Horse, and
Thomas Taaffe a Quarter-Master in SarsfiekVs. At
the siege of Derry, a Major John Taaffe, who was
brother to the Peer of Carlingford,was killed at Penny-
burn Mill. In King James's Parliament of Dublin
sat in the House of Peers Nicholas, Earl of Carling-
ford, who was soon after despatched as a confidential
envoy to the Emperor Leopold ; from which embassy
returning, he in the following year commanded a Regi-
ment of Infantry at the Boyne, where he fell heading
a charge. He had married, but left no issue ;*
whereupon his honors devolved upon his brother
Francis Taaffe, the celebrated Count Taaffe of the Ger-
manic Empire ; he ranked there a Marshal, and when
he succeeded to his honors in his native land, was, by
a special clause in the acts of William and Mary,
saved from the consequences of outlawry and attain-
der. He was Colonel of the Royal Cuirassiers under
the Emperor, and Lieutenant-General of the Horse

* Archdall's Lodge, v. 5, p. 206.

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(see of him fully in G 1 Callagharts Irish Brigades,
vol. 1, p. 370, &c.) After the disastrous day at the
Boyne, Mr. Taaffe, 'the Duke of Tyrconnel's chaplain,'
"a very honest and discreet clergyman,"* was one of
those who strongly laboured to persuade his discomfited
Sovereign to fly from Dublin. The Attainders of
1691 contain the names of the above Christopher
Taaffe, styled of Stephenstown ; five others in the
County of Louth ; and one, Francis Taaffe of Bally-
mote, County of Sligo. At Chichester House, a
Theobald Taaffe claimed and was allowed the benefit
of sundry mortgages affecting the Louth and Sligo
estates of Lord Caiiingford. Of the services of Taaffe's
Brigaded Eegiment, see '0' Conor's Military Memoirs,
pp. 251-2 and 262.

LIEUTENANT PETEE BATHE.

This family is of record here from the time of Edward
the Second, having come from Devonshire, where
Bathe House was long the designation of the locality
of its settlement. In Ireland the name first ap-
pears in the person of Simon Bathe, a proprietor of
lands in the County of Limerick at the commence-
ment of the fourteenth century. In 1327, Eichard
de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, having recently died in-
debted to the King, Matthew de Bathe was commanded
on his allegiance and under heavy penalties, to take

* Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 402.

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into his custody and care all money and jewels, silver
vessels, and all other the goods and chattels of the said
Earl, and them safely to keep until he received the
Royal commands. This Matthew continued a confi-
dential subject of King Edward, and of his successor
Edward the Third, the latter having in 1333 granted
to him the manor of Eathfay in the County of Meath,
with the advowson. In 1381, Thomas Bathe, clerk,
was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer,
in which year he had an allowance of £6 for his
expences as a Commissioner, in levying the forfeited
two-thirds off lands of absentees. In four years after,
he had a Treasury order for his expences on passing
over to England, to acquaint the King with the state
of Ireland ; and in 1393 was one of the Lords Justices.
By an imprinted statute of the Parliament of Drogheda
in 1640, (c. 9), it was enacted that Thomas Bathe,
Knight, 4 who pretends to be Lord of Louth,' shall ap-
pear in court on a certain day or be out of the King's
protection ; and it was further thereby ordered that
said Thomas Bathe shall never have place in the Par-
liament of this land, nor shall enjoy any office therein
under the King's grant. His lands in Louth appear
to have been thereupon seized as forfeited ; but a sub-
sequent act of the same session (c. 21) restored John
Bathe of Ardee, who seems to have been his son or
relative, to certain messuages, lands, and tenements in
Dromisken, Dundalk, and other places in the County of
"Louth, which were kept from him under order offorfei-
tures. In 1533, William Bathe of Dollardstown was
Vice-Treasurer of Ireland; but was soon afterwards at-

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tainted. In 1535, James Bathe of Drumconrath was
appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer ; when
he fixed his residence in the fine old Castle of Drym-
nagh near Dublin, whose ruins are still interesting.*
In 1554, John Bathe of Drumconrath and Athcarne
was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in
Ireland. In 1564, his son and namesake was Attor-
ney-general for Ireland, and afterwards Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and his daughter Eleanor was married
to Nicholas Netterville, who in 1622 was created the
first Viscount Netterville of Dowth. In 1581, Wil-
liam Bathe was constituted a Justice of the Common
Pleas ; and, in the Parliament convened by Sir John
Perrot in four years after, Thomas Bathe was one of
the Representatives for Dundalk. ' A note (of about
this period) of persons born in Ireland but residing
beyond seas 'f has the names of Luke Bath, a Capuchin
friar in Cologne ; William Bathe, a Jesuit in Sala-
manca ; and John Bath, a Knight of Malta ('as is
reputed') at the Court of Madrid. In 1611, King
James granted to John Bathe of BalgrifFen, County of
Dublin, the manor, &c. of Balgriffen, to hold by the
service of a rose on St. John's day, with various other
lands and premises in the Counties of Kildare, Meath,
Westmeath, and the City of Dublin. The Act of
1612, for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his
adherents, included John Bathe of Dunalong, County
of Tyrone, and John Bath, late of Drogheda, merchant.

* See D' Alton's County of Dublin, p. 700, &c.
t MSS. in Trin. Coll. Dub. (E. 3, 8, f. 46.)

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 457

In 1641, James Bathe of Athcarne was one of the
gentry of the County of Meath, who assembled at the
Hill of Crofty to parley with Roger Moore and his
adherents of Ulster. He was consequently attainted
in the following year, with Eobert Bath of Killussy^
County of Kildare ; William and Eobert Bathe of
Clonturk, County of Dublin, and Patrick Bathe of the
ancient inheritance of Bathfay, County of Meath. In
the Commons of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny
sat Peter Bathe Fitz-Eobert, late of Dublin, Peter
Bathe of Kilkenny, Eobert Bath of Clonturk, and
Eobert Bath, late of Dublin. This Peter Fitz-Eobert
forfeited Athcarne Castle, which was thereupon granted
to Colonel Grace in 1673. Before the Act of Ex-
planation in 1665, Sir Luke Bathe was ordered to be
restored to his estate, and to those which his deceased
father James Bathe had held on the 22nd of October,
1641, with certain exceptions. The Attainders of
1691 included Christopher Bathe of Knightstown,
Michael and James Bathe of Lady-Bath, Peter Bathe
of Ashbourne (where he seems to have lived after the
previous loss of Athcarne) Andrew Bathe of Drogheda,
merchant, and Edward Bathe of Painstown, County
of Louth. At Chichester House, James Bathe, a
minor, by Stephen Bath his guardian, claimed under
settlement of November, 1694, an estate for life to
himself with remainders in tail to his sons, (after the
death of Peter Bathe and Mary his wife,) in the
County of Meath lands theretofore forfeited by Chris-
topher Bathe ; while Elizabeth Bathe, the wife of said

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Christopher, claimed also an estate for her life therein,
after the death of said Peter. On the subsequent sale
of Athcarne Castle and its lands by the Trustees of
the forfeited estates, it appeared that, having been for-
feited as before mentioned by Peter Bathe, it vested
on mesne assignment in King James, when Duke of
York, and was then sold by the Trustees, as his private
estate, to Thomas Somerville of Dublin, subject to a
lease (allowed by the Commissioners) to George Ayl-
mer, Launcelot Dowdall, Esqs. and Dame Cicely
Bath, for 99 years, from January, 1668, at a pepper-
corn rent.

LIEUTENANT EDWARD TIPPER,

This officer is described in his attainder as of a local-
ity in the County of Kildare, that took its name of
Tippers town from the family. Francis Tipper was
also a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry,
and a William Tipper appears to have been at the
same time attainted in this County, on whose estates
there, another William claimed an estate for life with
remainders in tail to his sons.

LIEUTENANT THOMAS SKELTON.

A Charles Skelton also appears on this List a Lieu-
tenant in Colonel John Parker's Horse, yet neither of

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 459

\ these names appears on the Attainders of 1691, which
' comprise only John of Dublin, Bevil Skelton of Dub-
I lin, and Maria Skelton, alias O'Brien his wife. In
i 1689, July the 1st, a Lieutenant-Colonel Skelton is
| recorded as having been joined in commission with
i Colonel Dominick Sheldon, to conclude a treaty with
i the garrison of Berry on that day. In a genealogical
| manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, are links of a

pedigree of the Skeltons of the County of Limerick

for five generations.

LIEUTENANT CHAELES POVEY.

None of this name appear on the Attainders, and it
would seem rather of the opposite politics. In
1673, John Povey, Knight, and theretofore Baron of
the Exchequer in Ireland, was appointed Chief Jus-
tice of the Kings Bench ; and in 1702, Eickard
Povey was appointed principal Serjeant-at-arms.
The connections of this Lieutenant are, however,
wholly unknown.

LIEUTENANT JOHN MORGAN.

One of this name was an Ensign in Fitz-James's In-
fantry. Three Morgans were attainted in 1642. At
the battle of Newberry, fought in 1643, a Colonel
Morgan was killed on the Royalist side ; while at

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Aughrim fell a Lieutenant- Colonel of the name.*
The Morgans attainted in 1692 were Joseph of Cooks-
town, and Edward of Drogheda, merchant.

ENSIGN TALBOT SALTER.
Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family.

ENSIGN JAMES TOUCHETT,

The family of Touchett came into England with the
Conqueror, as recorded on the Eoll of Battle Abbey,
and in the Chronicles of Normandy. In 1405, John
Touchett was summoned to Parliament in England as
Lord Audley ; his great grandson James Audley was
attainted in the time of Henry the Seventh, but his
son was restored to his rank in 1513, and Ms great
grandson, George Lord Audley, took up his residence
in Ireland, where in the year 1610, in consideration
of an annuity or rentcharge of £500 English secured
to him for his life, he assigned " to Sir Mervyn
'Tuchett,' Knight, his son and heir apparent, his
whole estate in Ireland, to hold to him thenceforth in
fee, together with all his stock of cattle and corn, and
all other goods and chattels in Ireland, reserving to
his Lordship some chattels and household stuffs, and
he, said Sir Mervyn, paying to Sir Ferdinando Tuchett,

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 461

Knight, second son of said Lord Audley, an annuity
of one hundred marks in the Middle Temple Hall,
London ; and being bound after his Lordship's death,
to convey over to the said Ferdinando the fee of lands
in England or Ireland, to the clear yearly value of
£100 sterling.* Lord George was in seven years
after advanced in the Irish Peerage to the dignities
of Baron Oriel and Earl of Castlehaven. His grand-
son, James Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, during the
civil wars of Ireland commanded under the Duke of
Ormonde, and in 1649 was chosen General of the
Irish forces. He and his brother were therefore, in
Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652, excepted from pardon
for life and estate. His son Mervyn, Earl of Castle-
haven, was of the Peers in King James's Parliament
of 1689, and had a pension of £500 per annum,
charged on the establishment of 1687-8. Mervyn's
son James, afterwards the Earl, is possibly identical
with the above Ensign James.

ENSIGN NICHOLAS TYRWHITT.
Nothing known of him or his family.

* Rot. Pat. Jac. 1, Cam. Hib. This Lord and his Lady had a
grant in 1612, of various lands in the County of Armagh, as
had the said Sir Mervyn of yet more in the County of Tyrone,
to hold subject to the conditions of the Plantation of Ulster.

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ENSIGN EDWARD TOOLE.

Some, who write of the battle of the Boyne, allege that
the death of the Duke of Schomberg, while passing
that river, was caused by a shot from O'Toole, ' an
exempt of the King's Guard,' and affect to call this
guardsman Sir Charles Toole; but the name of this only
Toole in the Infantry Guards would lead to an infer-
ence of his identity with the transaction. The very
ancient sept of the O'Tooles were independent Princes
of Imaile and Cuolan, in the wild mountain district
forming a moiety of what had been in the time of
James the First reduced to English government, and
erected into the County of Wicklow. They constituted
one of the septs that were eligible to the dignity of
Kings of Leinster, and their territory formed the
Diocese of Glen-da-lough, whose bishops and abbots
they exercised the prerogative of appointing, down to
1497, when it was united to the Archiepiscopal See
of Dublin. A few years before the English Invasion,
Laurence O'Toole, afterwards canonized, was advanced
from the Abbacy of Glendalough to the Archbishopric
of Dublin.* The death of his father is recorded by

the Masters at 1164. In 1308, the infamous

Piers Gaveston diverted the interval of his official
exile to Ireland, in penetrating the country of the
O'Tooles, whose stronghold at Castle-Kevin he is

* See of this illustrious Prelate, fully, D1 Alton's Archbishops
of Dublin, p. 51, &c.

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

463

reported to have stormed, afterwards laying his offer-
ings, as of atonement, at the shrine of St. Kevin in
G-lendalough. In 1327, David O'Toole, then Captain
of the Sept, was taken prisoner by Sir John de
TTellesley, ancestor of 'the Duke.' In 1366, the Lord
Deputy made a treaty with Hugh O'Toole, then the
Captain, whereby he agreed to allow that chieftain a
stipend in the nature of black mail, to secure the Pale
from the predatory incursions of his followers.* This
policy of bounty was in the history of the Pale so
frequently necessitated for its security, that an Act
of the Irish legislature (28 Hen. 8, c. 11) was passed
" for restraining tributes given to Irishmen." In
1396, say the Four Masters, " the English of Leinster
were defeated by O'Toole with great slaughter." It
was on the occasion of this continued foray, that
Roger Mortimer, then Earl of March, King Richard's
Vicegerent in Ireland, and the heir presumptive to the
English Crown, was surprised, defeated, and slain.
Therefore it was, and with the object of chastising
1 the insolence of the Irish,' and avenging the death
of Mortimer, that the English Monarch undertook his

second journey to Ireland; but to raise another

patriot hero in Art Mac Murrough, for the veneration of
that country, and to consummate his own dethronement.
In 1497, Sir William Wellesley of Dangan, the lineal
descendant of the aforesaid John, who had done such
active service against the O'Tooles, was fain to espouse
one of this denounced Sept, Matilda O'Toole, having

* Mason's Irish Parliaments, p. 22.'

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first, as was necessary, obtained a Royal letter of
licence, dated the 30th of May in this year, whereby
she and their heirs were admitted to the benefit
of English laws and English liberties, and thus
exempted from the many penal statutes then in force
against alliances with the native Irish. It is singular
that pedigree compilations omit to mention this mar-
riage ; but, while the licence is of record in Chancery,
the fact is yet more assured by a patent of 1506,
whereby King Henry the Seventh pardoned Patrick
Hussey and 4 Maw' O'Toole, his wife (lately the wife
of Sir William Wellesley of Dangan), for their inter-
marrying without having first obtained the Royal
licence.

Spencer in his ' View of Ireland ' characterizes the
O'Tooles and O'Byrnes as 4 the two mischievous clans
that inhabited the glyns of Wicklow.' The Four
Masters are very full in the particulars of the
O'Toole's resistance to subjugation, especially in 1580.
In the time of James the First, however, O'Toole, ' the
Lord of Imaile,' furnished to military muster 24
horsemen and 80 Kerns; yet were many of the Sept
then attainted, as were in 1642 no less than twenty-
four O'Tooles, great proprietors in Wicklow. In the
Irish Parliament of 1689, Francis Toole sat as Repre-
sentative of the Borough of Wicklow, while on the
List of Colonels prefixed to the present Army List
the name of Francis Toole appears, Colonel of an In-
dependent Company of Fusiliers ; but, as he is
omitted in the subsequent details, the memoir of the

THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 465

name should be attached to Ensign Edward. The
forfeitures of 1691 exhibit but six OTooles as of
Wicklow, and one in each of three other Counties,
Carlo w, Kildare, and Wexford. Several of this name
were afterwards distinguished officers in the Irish
Brigades serving in France and Spain; and in 1719,
Captain O'Toole, with Colonel Wogan of the Rathcoffy
line, and two others of the Irish Brigade in the
service of the latter power, succeeded in carrying off
Maria-Clementina Sobieski, (grand-daughter of the
celebrated John Sobieski, King of Poland, who
defeated the Turks before Vienna), then betrothed to
James the Third, as the Pretender was styled by
them. They effected her liberation from the Castle of
Inspruck in the Tyrol, where she had been detained
for some previous months by command of the Emperor
Charles VI. at the instance of George the First.
From hence they brought her in' disguise to Monte
Fiascone within the Pope's dominions, where James
himself met her, and their marriage was celebrated.
The Pope, on their repairing to Rome, received the
gallant officers most cordially, and created them
Knights of the Holy Roman order.*

ENSIGN THOMAS POYNTZ.

Nothing has been ascertained of him or his connec-
tions.

* De Burgo's Hib. Dom. p. 266.

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EEGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON S.

Captains.
The Colonel
James Nugent,

Lieut. -Coh
John Talbot.

Major.

[James Gibbes, 2nd Major.]

Lieutenants.
Anthony Coleman.

Daniel O'Hara.
John Stanley.
Nicholas Harrold.
Edmund Murphy.
Maurice Fitzgerald.
James Gibbons.
Anthony Geoghegan.
Sieur du Pratt,
Grenad.

Keane O'Hara.
Andrew Duffe.
Bartholomew Harrold.
Lawrence Duffe.

Walter Plunkett.

Ensigns.

Cormick O'Hara.

Francis Warren.
Charles Sanders.

COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON.

This Officer, says Colonel O'Kelly's narrative,* was
one of these deputed by Tyrconnel, during his absence
from the government on attendance at St. Germains,
to guide and advise the young Duke of Berwick. He
was the brother as well of General Eichard Hamil-
ton who was taken prisoner at the Boyne, as of the
accomplished Colonel Anthony Hamilton who fought
against the Enniskilleners, and wrote the well-known
' Memoirs of Grammont.' The above Colonel John

* O'Callaghan's Macarice Excidium, p. 83.

john Hamilton's infantry.

467

ranked as a Major-General and a Brigadier at Augh-
rim, where he was taken prisoner.* O'Conor, in his
Military Memoirs, (p. 143), says that this General
was with a force detached to the aid of besieged
Limerick, too late for its last struggle ; the enemy
were in possession of the ramparts, and drove back
the designed relief to their camp.

CAPTAIN DANIEL O'HABA.

Of the noble Sept of O'Hara the Chief was Lord of
Lnigne, in the County of Sligo, a territory which
comprised the present Barony of Leney with parts of
those of Costello and Gallan. At so early a period as
1023, the death of Donagh O'Hara, Lord of Luigne,
is noted by the Four Masters ; as is the death of
Duncan O'Hara, Lord of the Three Tribes of Luigne,
in 1059. From which period the succession of their
Tanists or Captains is set down with singular exact-
ness to a comparatively recent date, in a venerable
Irish manuscript entitled the ' Book of the OTTaras.'
By one of these Chiefs, Keane O'Hara, Templehouse
was erected early in the fourteenth century, within
their principality, and on the site of an ancient
foundation of the Knights Templars. The Abbey of
Court, whose ruins are still discernible, was soon
after founded by another of the O'Haras. The above
Officer, Captain Daniel was, it will be seen, of an An-

* Story's Impartial Hist., pt. 2, p 137.

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468 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

trim branch of the family, of whom in 1608, in awe
of the Plantation system, Cahill O'Hara, John Oge
O'Hara, John Grome O'Hara, and Donnel O'Hara
sought and obtained patents of pardon and protection.
Of these, Cahill in 1612 obtained a patent for holding
a weekly market at Crebilly, with right of pie powder
and the usual tolls.* In 1627, Cormac O'Hara was
Sheriff of the County of Antrim. A Manuscript
Book of Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, supplies
links in the pedigree of this northern family for five
generations. Besides the above Captain Daniel,
Keane his Lieutenant, and Cormick O'Hara his
Ensign, who in their attainders are described as of
Loghdale, County of Antrim, there are upon this
Army List, another Cormack O'Hara, Captain in
Colonel Cor muck O'Neill's Infantry, in which Arthur
O'Hara of Farris in said County was a Lieutenant,
and Manus O'Hara an Ensign ; while in Colonel
Dominick Browne's, John O'Hara, son of Thadeus
O'Hara of Crebilly, was a Lieutenant. All these
were consequently attainted in 1691, with the ad-
dition of Roger O'Hara of Montagh, in the County
of Sligo.

In 1692, Sir Charles ' Hara ' and others obtained a
patent grant from King William and Queen Mary for
lighting Dublin with convex lamps.f A Charles Hara
was afterwards wounded at the battle of Landon.J
The name of O'Hara was subsequently ennobled in

* Rot. Pat. 9, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib.

t Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, pp. 9, &c.

\ Rawdon Papers, p. 379.

JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY.

469

the person of James O'Hara, created in 1721 Baron

of Kilmaine.* In 1744, Captain O'Hara, of an Irish

Brigade in Prince Charles-Edward's service, was, with
Captain O'Brien, taken prisoner at Harwich by an
order from Lord Carteret. They had arrived there
with the intention of crossing to Holland, but were
carried back in custody to London. Brigadier-Gene-
ral O'Hara was distinguished in the American war of
1781, and was wounded in an engagement near
Deep River, where the Americans were commanded
by General Greene. He was, however, ultimately
obliged with Earl Cornwallis to surrender at York-
town. In 1793, a General O'Hara was taken
prisoner in the attack on Toulon. f

CAPTAIN JOHN STANLEY.

This name is of record in Ireland from the earliest
introduction of the English Government. In 1385,
Sir John Stanley was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as
he was four several times after. He it was who, on the
forfeiture of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland,
obtained a grant in fee from the Crown, of the Isle of
Man with all its regalities and franchises, to hold by
homage and the service of two falcons, to be rendered
to the King, his heirs and successors, on the days of
their coronation. He was afterwards constituted

* Crossly's Peerage, p. 2G0.

| Gent. Mag. ad ann.

470

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Constable of Windsor Castle, made a Knight of the
Garter by Henry V. and died in 1413, Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland for the last time. Sir William Stanley,
Sir John's brother, was Lord Deputy in 1401 ; and
in 1432, Sir Thomas, grandson of Sir John Stanley,
was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for six
years. About the year 1530, Sir James Stanley, of
the same Derby stock as the before mentioned
Stanleys, was Marshal of Ireland. A Funeral Entry
in the Office of Arms records the death in 1636 of
Thomas Stanley of Finnor, County of Meath, son and
heir of Walter Stanley of same, and that he had mar-
ried Mary, daughter of Patrick Gernon of Gernons-
town, County of Louth, by whom he had daughters.
The above Captain, though not of Walter's issue, ap-
pears to have been of the Finnor family, the son of

Edward, the third son of Stanley of Finnor, by

Anne, daughter of Stern of Great Eccleston in

Kent.* He had been Sheriff of the County of Dublin
in 1688, and a resident of Swords, of whose ancient
Borough he was constituted one of the Burgesses in
King James's Charter of 1689. In his attainder of
1691, he is described as of that place ; while another
Stanley (Thomas) is located on the Outlawries as of
Martinstown, County of Louth.

* Genealogical MSS. Collection in Trin. Coll. Dub. (F. 3, 27.)

john Hamilton's infantry.

471

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS HARROLD.

This family name, introduced into Ireland on the
Danish invasion, appears subsequently of frequent oc-
currence in the records of this country. In 1302,
John 4 Harald ' and Geoffrey 1 Harold ' were of the
Magnates of Ireland whom King Edward invited to
assist him in the invasion of Scotland. In the seven-
teenth century the Harolds were established in the
Counties of Kildare, Wicldow, Dublin, and Limerick;
accordingly the Attainders of 1642 present the names
of Gerald Harold of Kildrought (Celbridge), County
of Kildare ; Richard Harold of Kilhele, Do. ; Thomas
Harold of Coolnehamon, County of Wicklow ; and
William of Kilmaceogue, County of Dublin. John
Harold was one of five tried by court martial in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on the 18th May, 1652*
In 1676, Thomas Harold, 4 a native of Ireland,' soli-
cited the interference of King Charles in his behalf ;
he having been confined in Brussels ten years 'for re-
sisting the Pope's claim as to his allegiance, and for
his having been one of the subscribers to the Remon-
strance of 1661. f

Besides the above Captain, there stands on this
Army List William Harold, a Lieutenant in Major-
General Boiseleau's Infantry. In the Parliament of
Dublin, Alderman Thomas Harold was one of the
the Representatives of the City of Limerick ; he was

* Minutes of Courts Martial during the Commonwealth, MS.
t Catal. Southwell MSS. p. GO.

472 king james's irish army list.

consequently attainted with Walter Harold of Lime-
rick, merchant, and the above Nicholas Harrold,
styled of Kilmaceogue, County of Dublin, a lineal de-
scendant of William Harrold, who was attainted in
1642. A John Harrold, described as of the same
locality, Irish papist, then also forfeited estates there.

In 1787, Colonel Harrold, of the Limerick family,
was Chamberlain to the Elector of Bavaria.*

CAPTAIN EDMUND MUKPHY.

The Murphys, or O'Murphys, were a Sept very
widely extended over Ireland, as even the few records
here noted will evince. This Officer was of Kilkenny,
in whose Cathedral are monuments to his family from
1640 to 1741. So early after the introduction of
surnames in Ireland as 1031, the death of Flaherty
O'Murroghoe (Murphy), Chief of Cinel-Breaghain, in
the County of Donegal, is recorded by the Masters,
as is that of O'Murroghoe, Chief Sage of Leinster, in
1127. The Attainders of 1642 name Michael
Murphy of Balruddery, and Laughlin Murphy of
Dunganstown ; George of St. Michan s Parish, Dub-
lin, with Donogh and Connor Murphy of Blarney,
County of Cork. In 1654, a Colonel of this name, at
the head of 800 Irishmen, distinguished himself in the
campaign in Spain. Besides the above Captain there
appear on this Army List, in the Earl of Tyrone's

* Ferrar's Limerick, p. 350.

john Hamilton's infantry.

473

Infantry, Nicholas and Michael Murphy, Lieutenants ;
— in Lord Bellew's, Owen and Bryan Captains, Phe-
lim and Denis Lieutenants, and John Murphy an
Ensign ; — in Colonel Nicholas Browne's, William
Murphy was a Captain, Maurice Murphy his Lieute-
nant, and John Murphy Ensign. Those attainted in
1692 were the above Captain Edmund, styled of Kil-
kenny, with two others of the name there, seven in
Wexford, six in Louth, four in Cork, three in Down,
two in Armagh, and one in Waterford and Clare re-
spectively.

In the Brigades commissioned in the French
service, of that styled the 4 Eegiment of Charlemont,'
commanded by Gordon O'Neill on its first formation,
the above Captain Edmund Murphy was constituted
Major, while a Cornelius Murphy was Major of the
Regiment of Clancarty.* At the Court of Claims in
1700, Maria de Margarita ' de Murphy ' claimed the
benefit of a judgment debt affecting the estates of
Donogh, Earl of Clancarty, but her petition was
dismist. The Archives of Bruges record a Darby
L Morphy,' Captain-Lieutenant in Lord Hunsdon's
Infantry as hereafter noticed ; while in St. Donat's
Cathedral of that City is a monument to the Reverend
and Venerable John Albert ' de Morphy,' i of the
Royal Sept of O'Morrough, which had given Kings to
Leinster,' who " had been imprisoned in London,
driven into exile, found an asylum at Bruges, where

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 199. For achievements of this
name in the Brigades, see idem, p. 73.

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king james's irish army list.

he was constituted ' Penitentiary ' of the Diocese, and
died 12th November, 1745."*

CAPTAIN JAMES GIBBONS.

No information of him has been ascertained, nor does
he appear on the Roll of Attainders ; those of 1642
have two of the name, and those of 1691 three.

LIEUTENANT ANTHONY COLEMAN.

The native Annalists of Ireland notice at a very
early age the Sept of O'Coleman, and sometimes of
Mac Colman, the latter as in the County of Louth,
where the name is still of respectability. In 1206,
say the Four Masters, died ' Maolpeddar O'Coleman,
successor of Canice (Abbot of Kilkenny), the pillar of
piety and wisdom of the North of Ireland.' The Rolls
of the Irish records present the name from the time of
Edward the Second. In 1642, were attainted John
Coleman of Artaine and Patrick Coleman of Kill,
County of Dublin, with Anne his wife. On the
minutes of courts martial held in St. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, Dublin, it is stated that an Ensign Coleman was
one of those tried there on the 9th of March, 1651.
The name does not appear at all on the Attainders of
1691, &c.

* Nichols's Top1, and Gen*. 1853, p. 484.

joiin Hamilton's infantry.

475

LIEUTENANTS ANDREW AND LAURENCE
DUFFE.

The 0 'Duffs were Chiefs of Hy Cruinthain, a district
extending round Dunamase in the Queen's County ;
and the name is of record on the Irish Rolls of
Chancery from the days of Edward the Third. On
the Attainders of 1642 appear Patrick Duffe of
Westpalstown, County of Dublin, with five other
Duffes in the same County, three in Kildare, and one
in Meath. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in
1647, Patrick Duff, there described as of Rospatrick,
but probably identical with the attainted Patrick of
Westpalstown, was of the Commons.* Besides these

Lieutenants, Duffe was a Lieutenant in Colonel

Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry. The Attainders of
1691 name only Thady ' Duff' of Piltown, County of
Meath ; Thadeus Duff of Athlone, merchant ;
Thadeus Duff, junior, of Dublin and Thomas Duff
of Kilkenny, merchant.

ENSIGN CHARLES SANDERS.
His connections are unknown.

* The compiler of these Illustrations sincerely regrets the
occurrence of assertions on probability ; but the difficulty he has
experienced in obtaining authentic family information precludes
that certainty, which could be otherwise obtained, only from his
own manuscripts, at a labour impracticable gratuitously for so
many families.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

FITZ- JAMES'S (THE LORD GRAND PRIOR.)

Captains.
The Colonel.
Edward Nugent,

Lieut.-Col.
■ Porter.

Major.

Walter ' Tyrrell.'

Hugh M'Mahon.
John Sutton.

Christopher Sherlock.
John Wogan.

Alexander Knightley.

John Panter.
William Moore.

Le Sieur Corridore.

Thom. Justie.

Patrick Kendelan.

George Corridons,
Granad.

Oliver Nugent.
Lieutenant Colonel Clon-

shinge.
Ignatius Usher.

Lieutenants.
James ' Barnwell.'

Catalier.

Garrett Plunkett
Christopher Bellew.

Charles Deguent.
Bartholomew White.

C John Herne.

\ Claudius Beauregard.

John Stephens.

Walter Grace.

Walter Usher.

Ensigns.
Phill Mownson.

Daniel O'Daniel.

Morgan.

Matthew Wale.
Francis Borre.

Beaghan Kendelan.

Bartholomew Piead.
Edward Rigney.

Oliver Grace.

COLONEL HENRY FITZ-JAMES, THE LORD
GRAND PRIOR.

This gallant young officer was another son of King
James by his mistress Arabella Churchill, sister of the
great Duke of Marlborough ; he was the youngest of
five children of that connection ; was born in August,

FITZ- JAMES'S INFANTRY. 477

1673; accompanied his father in his flight from Eng-
land, and after, in his expedition to Ireland ; where,
at the age of sixteen, he was appointed Colonel of this
Regiment, thenceforward known by his name. He
headed it at the battle of the Boyne, but retired with
his father immediately after to France. This his
Regiment, which was consigned to the command of
Nicholas Fitzgerald* distinguished itself throughout
the first siege of Limerick, and especially along with
that of Major-General Boiselean, the French General,
at the successful resistance of the assault of the 6th
of September, 1690, which led to the raising of the
siege by King William. The Grand Prior was in
1696 in France placed over the Toulon fleet designed
to invade England, at which time O'Callaghan conjec-
tures he was created Duke of Albemarle. In Decem-
ber, 1702, he was appointed Lieutenant-General of
the Marine, and in the same month died at Bagnols
in Languedoc, aged only between 29 and 30, married,
but without issue. Louis the Fourteenth placed the
Court of France in mourning on his decease.f On
the formation of the French Brigades, Fitz-James's
Regiment was equipped as Cavalry and styled 1 Le
Regiment de la Marine,' from the circumstance of the
Lord Grand Prior having been originally designed for
the British Navy, and his having entered the French
on his father's dethronement, and actually distin-
guished himself at sea under Tourville in the engage -

* O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 209.
+ Idem, p. 37G.

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ment at St. Vincent against the English Admiral Sir
George Rooke in 1693.* Of this Brigaded force the
Lord Prior was Colonel, Nicholas Fitzgerald Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, and Edward O'Madden Major,f (the lat-
ter had been Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Clanricarde's
Infantry in Ireland, as noted hereafter). It fought
with signal bravery at Fontenoy in 1745, where it
consisted of four squadrons, one of which, styled the
Scotch Royals or Squadron, and the picquets of those
of Dillon, Rothe, and Lally, were despatched from
France to Scotland and England, to sustain the claim
of Prince Charles-Edward. They only reached their
destination, however, to be made prisoners of war,
after the battle of Culloden, fought 2nd April, 1746.
The three first squadrons of Fitz- James's Regiment, as
it continued to be styled, and the picquets of Bulke-
ley's, Clare's and Berwick's, had been previously cap-
tured on the voyage in the month of October, 1745,
and March, 1746. J A meagre list of those of the
respective Irish Brigades killed and wounded at Fon-
tenoy may be seen in the Gentleman's Magazine
(vol. 15). In 1746, the 'Count de Fitz-James,' de-
scribed as Major-General-Commandant, was one of the
volunteers bound for Scotland in Prince Charles-
Edward's service, but taken at sea ; as was also M.
D'Arcy, his aide-de-camp, Major-General Ruth, 'Briga-
dier-General de Tyrconnel,' and eighteen other officers,

* O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 210.
"I" O'Conor's Military Memoirs, v. 1, p. 198.
t Idem, p. 400.

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479

six gunners, one corporal, one labourer, and five com-
panies of Fitz- James's Eegiment, in all 199 men.
These were taken on board the French transport ship
the 1 Bourbon/ by Commodore Knowles ; while at the
same time there were captured by him on board the
' Charite ' thirteen other officers and four companies of
Fitz- James's Eegiment of Horse, in all about 160 men.

MAJOK POETEE.

The name of Porter is of record on the Irish Eolls from
the time of Edward the Third. The Attainders of
1642 present of this name only Eichard Porter of
Oldbridge, County of Meath. In 1686, Sir Charles
Porter was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; he
was afterwards removed for Sir Alexander Fitton,
but was restored at the close of 1690, on the Eevo-
lution. In the Parliament of 1689, Eobert Porter was
one of the Eepresentatives of the County of Eildare,
as was John Porter of the City of Waterford, and
Colonel James Porter of the Borough of Fethard,
County of Wexford.

The above Major, whose Christian name does not
appear on this roll, was, it may be presumed, the
Colonel James, Member for Fethard in 1689, as he
was early promoted to the rank of second Lieutenant-
Colonel in this Eegiment, Dodsley having been sub-
stituted in the Majority. He was in France at the
time of the battle of the Boyne, on the day previous to

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which he wrote from St. Germains to Father Warner,
1 confessor to the King in Dublin/ a letter* in which
he says, " the dreadful fleet of France has got into
the Channel. We may daily expect strange changes,
and with reason ; we may expect to see our Eoyal
Master in Whitehall before Michaelmas. We are
sending a fleet of thirty frigates for Ireland : after

such preparations, what may we not expect?"

When that Eoyal Master had fled to France, this
Colonel Porter was made Vice-Camberlain in his
titular Court.f The Attainders of 1691 include his
name as of Feathard, with Patrick Porter of Kings-
town and William of Jongiunstown, County of Meath;
Robert Porter of Kildare, and Nicholas Porter
of Waterforcl, merchant, who was Mayor of that
city in 1689. His forfeitures consisted of premises
in that city, all which were purchased from the Trus-
tees by Alderman Lapp in 1703. Some links of

the descent of the Porters of Waterford are preserved
in a manuscript book of Obits in Trinity College,
(F. 3. 27), deriving them from Gloucestershire.

CAPTAIN JOHN SUTTON.

This family was established in Ireland at a very re-
mote period. In 1302, Gilbert de Sutton was one of
the Magnates of this country whom Edward the First

* Southwell MSS. Catal. p. 179.
f Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 411.

FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY.

481

invited to aid him in the Scottish war. They early-
settled in the County of Kildare, where a genealogi-
cal manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin (F. iii. 27),
traces links of their pedigree for five generations, in
the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1605, John Lye,
gentleman, servant to Queen Elizabeth, had a grant
from her Eoyal successor of the towns, lands, &c. of
Eathbride, Morristown-Biller, Kelickstown, &c, par-
cel of the estate of David Sutton in the County of
Kildare, the patentee being bound to keep upon Eath-
bride one able horseman, archer, or ' hargabusher,' of
the English nation, sufficiently furnished for the de-
fence of Ireland. Oliver Sutton was previous to this
time seised of Eichardstown in the same County.
His heiress, Elinor, married Gerald Sutton, who sur-
vived her, but died in 1616, leaving Gilbert Sutton
their heir, who died in 1631. Gerald Sutton was his
son and heir, then aged but eight years ; he was in
1642 attainted, with Laurence and Nicholas Sutton
of Tipper in the same County, who were a branch
of the stock. William Sutton died seised of Tip-
per, Barbyeston, &c. County of Kildare in 1592,
leaving John his son and heir, who succeeded to said
estates, which were forfeited in 1642 by the attainder
of his son William Sutton, junior. This William was
one of the Confederate Catholics at the Supreme Coun-
cil of Kilkenny in 1646, and he would seem to have
been father to the above Captain John, in whose
favour a saving was reserved in a patent of lands in
the County of Gal way to William Clynch. Pie was,

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in 1691, attainted by the description of John Sutton
of Haverston, County of Kildare, together with five
other Suttons in the County of Wexford, and one in
the City of Dublin. At the Court of Chichester
House, Bridget Sutton, in 1700, claimed and was
allowed her jointure off the Kildare estate of this
Captain Sutton, which was sold by the Commissioners
of the Forfeitures in 1703 to the Hollow Swords
Blades' Company.

CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER SHERLOCK.

This family is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Tudors. They were located in the Barony of
Coshmore, County of Waterford, as also in the Coun-
ties of Tipperary, Limerick, Dublin, and Kildare.
In 1422, the King appointed Walter 6 Sherloke' to be
Chief Sergeant of the County of Kildare, an office
which he held for several years after. In 1431, he
had an order on the Irish Exchequer for remune-
rating his great labours in the County of Kilkenny
and its marches. In 1499, James 4 Sherloke' was
commissioned to hold an assize. In 1586, an Inqui-
sition post mortem was held of the estates of John
Sherlock of Bally clerihan, in the County of Cross-
Tipperary, when it was found that, at the time of his
death, he was seised of a castle and sundry lands and
premises there. In 1616, Thomas Sherlock of 'the
Naas' was one of the County of Kildare gentry impa-

FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY.

483

nelled to hold a similar post mortem inquiry as to the
estates of Walter Wellesley of the Norragh, then
lately deceased. This Thomas was attainted in 1642,
as were Edward Sherlock of Blackhall in the same
County, clerk, and George Sherlock of Wicklow, mer-
chant. In the confirmatory patents of King Charles
the Second to the adventurers in Waterford were
savings of the rights of Paul, heir of Sir Thomas
Sherlock.

In 1684, 18th May, died Philip Sherlock of Little-
rath, son of Christopher of that place ; he was buried
on the 20th at Bowdingstown in the same County,
leaving issue by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Wil-
liam Eustace,* the above Christopher his eldest son,
Eustace, Eobert, John, William, and Edward, his
younger sons, and Hester and Mary his two
daughters. The estate, having descended to Christo-
pher, was forfeited on his attainder, subject to the
charges which the will of his father created for the
younger children. The testator's widow intermarried
with Nicholas Adams, while of her children by Sher-
lock, Eobert and Mary died under age, and Edward
the youngest was long resident in Corfu. f He was a
claimant for his portion on the family estate, as were
his brothers John and William, and their rights were
allowed. Besides Captain Christopher, there are on
this List Thomas Sherlock of Blackhall, a Captain, and
Robert Sherlock an Ensign, in Sir Maurice Eustace's

* Funeral Entry, Berm. Tower.

t MBS. in Marsh's Library, Dublin.

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Infantry, evidently near relatives of Captain Christo-
pher. Edward Sherlock of Blackball, possibly the same
individual who was attainted in 1642, was one of the
Representatives of the Borough of Cloughmine in King
James's Parliament of 1689. He was consequently at-
tainted with said Thomas, John Sherlock of Lady's Castle,
Laurence and Eustace Sherlock of Littlerath, all in said
County of Kildare ; Robert Sherlock of Carlo w (the En-
sign in Sir Maurice Eustace's), and James, Pierce, and
Balthazzar Sherlock of Ballykenny and Ballyleigh,
County of Waterford. In 1 6 94, Thomas Sherlock, a mer-
chant of Irish birth, theretofore trading in Dublin, but
then a merchant at Rouen in France, obtained, under
circumstances detailed in his petition, full pardon and
liberty to return to his native country.

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER KNIGHTLEY.
CAPTAIN JOHN PANTON.

Nothing worthy of note has been ascertained of
either of these officers or their families, in connexion
with this period.

CAPTAIN PATRICK KENDELAN.

The O'Caendelain were Tanists of Leogaire in Meath,
of which Donell O'Caendelain died lord in 1017, as
did Angus O'Caendelain in 1085. This officer was

FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY.

485

of Ballynakill, County of Meath, by which description
he was attainted with three others of his kindred
there, Edward, Vaughan, and John Kendelan.

CAPTAIN IGNATIUS USHEE.

In Lord Slane's Regiment of Infantry, Walter Usher
was an Ensign, but nothing of note touching this
period has been discovered of either of these officers.

LIEUTENANT JOHN HEENE.
He appears to have been of the Gal way Hemes.

LIEUTENANT JOHN STEPHENS.

Of this name at the period it can only be said that,
in 1690, Sir Eichard Stephens was appointed a
Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, while a
Thomas Stephens, described as of Ballyvaughan,
County of Limerick, was the only one of the name
then attainted.

486 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

ENSIGN PHILL MOWNSON,
ENSIGN BARTHOLOMEW READ,
ENSIGN EDWARD RIGNEY.

No notice of any of these officers, worthy of insertion,
has been obtained.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL JUSTIN MACARTY'S, NOW LORD MOUNTCASHEL.

Captains.
The Colonel.
[Count Anthony Hamil-
ton, Lieut.-Col.]

Major,

Garret Fitzgerald.
Philip Barry Oge.

Thomas Power.
Ulick Browne.
Charles Fitzgerald.
John Hogan,
Granad.

Richard Condon.
Kennedy O'Bryan.
Thady O'Connor.

COLONEL JUSTIN MACARTY.

Lieutenants.
Dominick Terry.
Francis Fitzgerald.

Edmund Sweeny.

John Sullivan.

Miles Carroll.

Lewis Moore.

Thomas Hogan.

Robert Fitzgerald.

Walter Bryan.
Donogh M'Carty.

Maurice Piers.

John Ryan.

John Mally.

Ensigns.
James Fitzgerald.
George

Auliffe Callaghan.
Edward Fitzgerald
Patrick Levallin.
Eedmond Condon.
Teigue M'Carty.
William White.

Patrick ' Peirs.'
John Ryan.
Philip Connor.

The native Annals, especially those of Innisfallen,
abound in records of the patriotism and perseverance

LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY.

487

with which the noble Sept of the Macartys laboured
to resist the early invasion of the Danes, until they
were at length induced to tolerate their settling for
commercial purposes in that province, Desmond, of
which they were Kings. When Henry the Second
landed at Waterford, Mac Carty, King of Desmond,
delivered to him the keys of Cork and did homage.
This great family was popularly distinguished into
two branches, the Mac Carty More, of which was
Donald Mac Carty, created Earl of Glancare by Queen
Elizabeth ; and Mac Carty Keagh, ranked Princes of
Carbery. Besides being Earls of Glancare, the
Mac Cartys were subsequently at various times en-
nobled as Barons of Valentia, Barons and Yiscounts
Muskerry, Earls of Clancarty, and in this reign Lords
Mountcashel. In 1314, Edward the Second directed
his especial letter missive to Dermot Mac Arthy,
1 Duel Hibernicorum de Dessemond] for his aid in
the Scottish war. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament,
the Earl of Glancare sat as chief representative of
this Sept. In a few years after, the Desmond war
having wasted Munster, Florence Mac Carty and Der-
mot Mac-Donagh Mac Carty passed out of that Pro-
vince to Spain. Florence had been previously imprison-
ed, and during his confinement, in the enthusiasm of
national feeling, he wrote an ' Epistle on the Antiqui-
ties of the Irish Nation,' which is preserved in the
MSS. of Trinity College, Dublin, (D. 3. 16). In
1 605, David Lord Barrie, Viscount Buttevant, had a
grant from King James of various castles, manors,

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customs, &c. in the Comity of Cork, ' the estate of
Fineen Mac Owen Mac Cartie, late of Iniskeen, slain
in rebellion.' The Attainders of 1642 present the
names of Dermot Mc Carthy, and Donell Mac Teigue
Mc Carthy, both of Ballyea, County of Cork ; with
the large proportion of one hundred and ten several
Inquisitions confiscating the estates of other proprie-
tors of the name in that County.

At the Supreme Council held in Kilkenny in 1646,
Donogh Mc Carty, Viscount Muskerry, was of its
Temporal Peers ; while Charles Mc Carty Keagh,
Dermot Mc Carty of Kanturk, and Thady Mc Carty
of Killfallaway were of the Commons. The Viscount
was consequently especially excepted from pardon for
life and estate in Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652. On
the Irish Establishment of 1687-8, this Colonel Justin
Macarty was placed as a Major-General of the Army
for the annual pay of £680, with an addition of
£500 on the Pension List ; while, on the latter fund,
Daniel Mc Carty Keagh was placed for £100 per an-
num. This name appears in commission in eight
other Regiments of the present muster. In 1689, a
Captain Mac Cartie was killed, according to Walker,
or taken prisoner, as Mac Kenzie has it, in attempting
to scale the walls of Derry ; while in September of the
following year another Captain Mac Carty was taken
prisoner at the siege of Cork by Colonel Churchill,
afterwards Duke of Marlborough.*

This Colonel Justin Macarty, whom O'Kelly, in

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 1, p. 131.

LOUD MOUNTOASHEL'S INFANTRY. . 489

his ' Excidium Macarice] styles First Lieutenant-
General of the Irish Army, was, he says, " a man of
parts and courage, wanting no quality fit for a com-
plete captain, if he were not somewhat short-sighted."*
As the best qualified officer for inspecting arms, ord-
nance, and engineering tools, he was appointed Mus-
ter-Master General of Artillery in Ireland, and con-
stituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cork ;
where, previously to King James's coming over, he
took Castle-Martyr and Bandon from the possession of
the Protestant party, and was considered to have
suppressed their movements in two of the other pro-
vinces.! On King James's landing at Kinsale, he
sought his information as to the state of the country
more especially " from Justin Macarty and from Sir
Thomas Nugent, (afterwards created Lord Eiverston)
the Lord Chief Justice. He then applied himself to
the affairs of the Army, and gave orders to this Jus-
tin Macarty to form seven Eegiments of Foot of
the forces raised in those quarters, as also to arm the
Regiment of Dragoons of Sir James Cotter ( Sir Fran-
cis Carroll's on this List). J Early in May, 1689, he
was created Lord Viscount Mountcashel and Baron
of Castleinchy, and was introduced with that title on
the second day of the meeting of the Parliament of
Dublin, to the House of Peers; immediately after which
he was constituted Commander of the forces designed

* O'Callaghan's Excidium Macarise, p. 36.

t Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 327. \ Idem.

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to reduce Enniskillen.* Amongst the Peers on that
occasion sat also Donogh Mac Carty (although a
minor) by Eoyal dispensation; while in the Commons
another Justin Macarty was one of the Representa-
tives of the County of Cork ; Charles and Daniel
Mac Carty Reagh sat for the Borough of Bandon,
Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Mac Carty and Daniel
Fynneen Mac Carty for that of Cloughnakilty, and
Florence Mac Carty was one of the Representatives of

the Borough of Ennis. Lord Mountcashel proceeded

under his aforesaid commission into Ulster, attended
by three whole Regiments of Infantry, two of Dragoons,
and some Horse ; being all the troops the King could
draw together at that time. His Lordship's efforts
in that Province were, however, from the want of am-
munition and the rawness of his soldiers, ineffective.
In an engagement near Enniskillen, he was severely
wounded, and, being carried into that town a prisoner,
" he there lay long under cure ; but, before he was ful-
ly recovered of his wounds, he made his escape after a
strange and wonderful manner, to the universal joy of
all the Irish, "f " The town of Enniskillen," writes
Story (Impartial History, part 1, p. 51) ''stands upon
a lough, and the water came to the door of the house
where he was confined, or very near it. He found
means to corrupt a servant, and to get two small boats
called 4 cots ' to carry him and his best moveables off
by night.'1 This act having been represented as a
breach of parol, Lord Mountcashel, previous to re-

* O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 26. f Idem, p. 36.

LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY.

491

suming military duties in France, the new scene of
his achievements, thought it necessary to submit him-
self to be tried before a Court of Honour in that
country, when he was fully aquitted by this tribunal.
When the Duke of Schomberg landed at Bangor in
the County of Down, in August, 1689, his first move-
ment was against Carrickfergus ; to invest which he
sent five Regiments of Foot and some Horse, follow-
ing on the next day himself with the remainder of
the Army. The town was governed by Colonel Charles
Macarty More, whose garrison consisted of his own
Eegiment and nine companies of Colonel Cormuck
O'Neill's. He defended the place for ten days against
Scomberg's operations by land and sea ; nor was it
until reduced to the last extremity, having but one
barrel of powder left, and without any hope of relief,
that he quitted the town, upon very honourable terms.
" The garrison," says Story, in the first part of his
Impartial History (p. 10), " were lusty strong fellows,
but ill-clad, and, to give them their due, they did not
behave ill in that siege."

Lord Mountcashel was attainted in 1691, and
again in 1696, on which occasion seventy-eight other
Inquisitions of Outlawries were held on the McCartys,
on whose confiscations various claims were preferred
at Chichester House.

The reader must be here reminded that, when
James the Second was induced to attempt a landing
in Ireland, Louis the Fourteenth agreed to send over
thither for his service six thousand of his veterans,
under the command of De Lausun, in exchange for as

492

KUG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

many young soldiers from Ireland. Lord Mount-
cashel was appointed to head the latter, a movement
which, Colonel O'Kelly writes, " was desired by Tyrcon-
nel, while Mountcashel himself, who could not endure
Tyrconnel's haughty movement, was not displeased to
serve France under the great Louis."* On the arrival
of the Irish forces in that country, they were received
with the most flattering and generous treatment by
the King. Mountcashel's Regiment, having suffered
almost annihilation in the engagement near Ennis-
killen, was strengthened with fresh recruits before it
could be brought out. The second Regiment sent
out, Clare's, was commanded by the Honourable
Daniel O'Brian, son of Lord Clare ; the third, Dillon's,
was under the Honourable Arthur Dillon, second son
of the Lord Viscount of that name. There were two
other Regiments sent over with these, viz. Colonel Rich-
ard Butlers and Colonel Robert Fielding's, but they do
not appear upon this ' List and were at once incorpo-
rated in the three first. Soon after Mountcashel's
arrival in France (1690-91), he received a commission
from Louis, entitling him to command all the Irish
troops taken into the French service, viz., his own,
O'Brien's, and Dillon's ; and in a few days after was
empowered to act as a Lieutenant-General of France,
as he already was of England and Ireland.f In order
at once to engage his military services, he was ordered
to Savoy, where the French corps cVarmee was then
too feeble for active operations. After a march of

* Excid. Mac. p. 46. f O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 69.

LORD MOUNTCASIIEL'S INFANTRY.

493

five hundred miles under a burning sun, to which the
men were unaccustomed, it joined the French army
near the capital of Savoy, towards the latter end of
July. Lieutenant-General the Marquis of St. Ruth,
(destined afterwards to fall at Aughrim) on the ar-
rival of the Irish, recognised their value, and fearlessly
approached Chantilly. Calculating on their courage
and agility as mountaineers, he promptly ordered
their forces to join him, with the object of driving the
Piedmontese beyond the high Alps that separate
Savoy from Piedmont. Nor did Mountcashel disap-
point his expectations ; at the head of his Regiment
he gained the defiles, burst through the abattis, carried
the entrenchments, and forced the Piedmontese to fly
to the summits of the mountains. M. de Salles, their
commander, was taken prisoner, the next in command
was killed, and several others were, in the pursuit,
killed or taken. Mountcashel received wounds on
this occasion, which, though he was unwilling they
should withdraw him from service, yet ultimately
preyed upon him to death. During the campaign of
1691, St. Ruth's corps was embodied in the French
armies of Piedmont and Catalonia, and shared with
them the honor of the capture of Montmelian, the
strongest fortress in the south of Europe ; and of Urgel
in Catalonia, defended by a large garrison, the elite
of the Spanish army. Clares mounted the trenches
at Montmelian, and Mountcashel's and Dillon's at
Urgel.* In 1692, Mountcashel's Brigade was en-

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 100, &c.

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gaged in brilliant services with Catinat on the Pied-
montese frontier, at Guillestre, and Embrun. Nine
battalions of his Brigade were engaged in this service,
with three of Clare's, two of the King's and Queen's
Dismounted Dragoons, and two of the Queen's In-
fantry.* In 1694, when the French army in

Germany was commanded by Marshal Boufflers,
Mountcashel served as a Lieutenant-General in the
corps of the Grand Army, having under him his own
Regiment, consisting of three Battalions, the Dublin,
the Charlemont, and the Marines. Their nine Bat-
talions, in all about 6,000 men, effected the reduction
of Beringheim on the Necker, the only achievement
of the French in Germany during this year.f In
the campaign on the Rhine, Mountcashel acted as
Lieutenant-General under Marshal Lorges, but the
effects of his wounds obliged him to seek benefit from
the waters of Barege, where he died on the 21st of
July, 1694. He had married the Lady Arabella
Wentworth, second daughter of Thomas, the ill-fated
Earl of Strafford, by whom he left no issue. " His
death made room for the advancement of Colonel
Andrew Lee, an officer of distinguished reputation,
who afterwards obtained the rank of Lieutenant-
General, and by whose name Mountcashel's Regiment
was thenceforward known. J

In 1747, Captain Charles Mac Cartie of Buckley's
Regiment was killed at Lauffield, as was Flory Mac

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 215-16. t Idem, p. 224.
t Idem, p. 228-9.

LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY.

495

Carty of Clare's ; and Lieutenant Florence Mac
Carty of Berwick's was wounded on the same occasion.
In 1770, died in England Charles Mac Carty More,
a Captain in the First Foot Guards, who claimed de-
scent from Dermot Mac Carthy, King of Cork in the
time Henry the Second.*

[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL COUNT ANTHONY
HAMILTON.]

This son of Sir George Hamilton and brother of
Count George Hamilton, both before alluded to, was
a native of Ireland, but passed out of it to France
during the visitation of Cromwell. On the Restora-
tion he also returned ; and, after the accession of
James the Second was created a Privy Councillor in
Ireland, and made Governor of Limerick, with a pen-
sion of £200 per annum. When the Revolution
broke out in England he retired to France with
James the Second, whom he afterwards accompanied
to Ireland, and was by him appointed Colonel of a
Regiment of Infantry, and finally Major-General of
the forces under Lord Mountcashel designed to re-
duce Enniskillen ; in the progress of which expedi-
tion he was wounded at Belturbet.f He had greatly
incensed King William by undertaking, as it was
alleged, to persuade Tyrconnel to yield up Ireland to

* Exshaw's Mag. ad ann.

f O'Callaghan's Brigades, p. 32, &c.

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him ; adding that, when he had obtained all the con-
fidence with which the Whigs would entrust him, he
posted over to Ireland, and did all in his power, by
pen, interest, or sword, in the cause of King James.
He was taken prisoner at the Boyne, when a sarcasm
little worthy of majesty is said to have been applied
to him by King William. Leland, following Dr.
Story, says this rebuke was uttered against General
Eichard Hamilton, who was also taken prisoner here ;
but the reproach (if it ever were spoken) could not
apply to the latter. By the interest of the Queen, on
the representations of the Duke of Devonshire and
" the fair Grammont," his own sister, Count Anthony
was released from captivity, and died at St. Germain s
in 1720, aged 74.* He was the well-known author
of the 4 Memoirs of Grammont,' an attractive record
of scandalous reminiscences. It is only to be
observed that on the present Army List the Lieute-
nant-Colonelcy is not filled; but it was afterwards
filled by this officer.

CAPTAIN JOHN HOGAN.

Orteliuss map locates the 'O'Hogains' as an ancient
Sept in Tipperary, in the vicinity of Nenagh. Of
this family the Annals of the Diocese of Killaloe
record Matthew O'Hogain its Bishop in 1267,

* O'Callaghan's Brigades, p. 284.

LORD MOUNTCASIIEL'S INFAMTRY.

497

Maurice O'Hogain in 1281, Thomas O'Hogain in
1343, and Richard Hogan in 1525 ; this last was
afterwards translated to the See of Clonmacnoise, a
short time previous to its union with Meath. The
above officer was of Terraleague, County of Cork ;
while there are also on this Army List, besides him
and Thomas Hogan a Lieutenant in this Eegiment,
Murtough and Hugh Hogan, Cornets in Lord Clare's
Dragoons ; the latter was of Car nan, County of
Clare ; and in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry,
Daniel Hogan was a Captain, and William Hogan an
Ensign. Of these, John and Hugh only appear on
the Roll of Attainders in 1691. Story relates * that
" Grace and Hogan, two Rapparee Captains, with
eighty men surprised a castle called Camgart, within
six miles of Birr."

CAPTAIN RICHARD CONDON.

The Condons were anciently settled in the County of
Cork; but their chief territory was, on the plantation
of Munster, granted to Arthur Hyde, as forfeited by
Patrick Condon, an adherent of the Earl of Des-
mond. In the subsequent Attainders of 1642 no
less than twenty-one Inquisitions were held on this
name. Besides the above Captain Richard, and Red-
mond Condon an Ensign in this Regiment, Edmund
Condon was a Lieutenant in Colonel John Barrett's

* Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 3.

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Infantry. The Attainders of 1691 have the names
of John Condon of Carricknavoura, David of Bally-
Tnacpatrick and John his son, Garrett of Killecar and
Redmond of Ballywilliam, all in the Connty of Cork.
Captain Richard appears to have fallen in battle.
His widow Julianne was an unsuccessful claimant at
Chichester House for a life estate in his Cork lands.

LIEUTENANT DOMINICK TERRY.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Tudors. In 1536, Dominick Terry consented to
be appointed Bishop of Cork and Ross, by mandate of
Henry VIII. and held the See in opposition to the
Pope's nominee; while in 1616, William 4 Thyrry,'
on the latter authority, became titular Bishop thereof.
The Attainders of 1642 have only the names of Ed-
mund Tyrry of Clonturk, and William Tyrry Fitz-
Dominick of Ballymacperry, County of Cork. Those
of 1691 include William and Robert Terry of
Ballingcurry, George and John of Rathnagarde,
Francis of Galway, and James, Patrick and Stephen
Thyrry of Limerick.

LIEUTENANT MAURICE PIERS.

This family has been noticed ante, p. 309 and its settle-
ment at Tristernagh in the County of Westmeath.

LORD MOUNTCASHEL's INFANTRY.

499

Captain William Piers of that place was an Officer
under Queen Elizabeth in her Avars of Ireland, and
Holinshed mentions that he was the person who
"contrived of destroying the great rebel O'Neill."*
His great grandson, Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh,
drew a brief memoir of his native County, which has
been published in Vallancey's Collectanea Hibernica.
In the Attainders of 1642, John Piers, described as of
Wicklow, is the only person of this name, while those
outlawed in 1691 were John and Turlogh Piers of
Calwonmaine, County of Clare. In this Eegiment
Patrick Piers was Maurice's Ensign, and in Sir Neill
O'Neill's Dragoons, Christopher Piers was a Cornet.

LIEUTENANT JOHN MALLY.

The most influential branch of this family, O'Mally or
O'Maley, has been long established in the County of
Mayo, where, in the reign of Elizabeth, Grace,
daughter of Owen O'Maley, called by the natives
Grana Uile, made her name so widely known, that in
1576 the Lord Deputy Sidney wrote of her to the
Council in England, as one ' powerful in gallies and
seamen.' The renown of her Sept in maritime
affairs and naval exploits is indicated in their heral-
dic motto, i Terra marique potens.1 Her visit to the
Court of Elizabeth and her carrying off the infant son
of the Lord of Howth from his father's residence have

* Ware's Writers, p. 102.

KK 2

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been commemorated in prose and poetry. Her
nephew, Edmund O'Malley, born in 1579, adhered to
the cause of Charles the First, and died at Breda in
exile, leaving a son who was present when very young
at the battle of Worcester, and accompanied his father
to Breda ; on the Restoration he recovered a portion
of his ancient inheritance. He (continues Sir Ber-
nard Burke) attended James the Second through all
his Irish campaigns, and died with him in exile at St.
Germains in 1692. He married at the Court of
Spain the daughter of Sir Christopher Garvey, a maid
of honor to the Queen, by whom he had a son Teigue
or Thady O'Malley, who held a commission as Captain
of Irish Dragoons during this campaign.*

This family was so formidable in the estimation of
the Lord President of Munster during the war in
that Province, that in 1601 when "intelligence
haying reached him, and letters being intercepted,

whereby it probably appeared that the O'Mayleys

and O'Flahertys had a purpose with six hundred men
to invade Kerry,.... principally to disturb his Govern-
ment, he despatched a strong body of men to do good
service on the rebels at their passage over the Shan-
non, which, of necessity, they must hazard before they
could come into Munster ;"f a service which was
effectively rendered. After the defeat of the
Spaniards at Kinsale, when Sir Charles Wilmot was
despatched to watch over the inhabitants of Kerry,

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 964.
f Pacata Hibernia, pp. 222-3.

LORD MOUNTCASIIEL's INFANTRY 501

Owen O'Mayley was one of the native chiefs who, at
the head of " 500 foot and a few horse, vainly sought
at Lixnaw to stay his passage."* In Lord Galway's
Regiment of Infantry, a Daniel Mally, described in
his Attainder as of Tynehugh, County of Donegal,
was an Ensign. With him were attainted in 1690
Nicholas Mally of Dublin, Thady of Drogheda, mer-
chant ; Neil O'Malley also of Tynehugh, and Patrick,
Owen, and Darby O'Malley of Owles, County of
Mayo. In the latter part of the eighteenth century,
Patrick O'Malley, of the Mayo Sept, was killed in the
Austrian service.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

DONOGH, EARL OF CLANCARTY.

Captains.
The Colonel.
John Shelton,

Lieut.-Col.
Philip Ricautt,

Major.

Alexander Maguire.

Walter Butler.

Lord Upper Ossory.

Garret 'TirrehV

Edmund Fitzgerald.

Donogh M'Carty.

Andrew Dorrington.
Cornelius Murphy.

Lieutenants.

Ensigns.

Gerald Fitzgerald.
Edmund Purcell.

Garret Dease.

* Pacata Hibernia, p. 533.

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king james's irish army list,

COLONEL THE EARL OF CLANG ARTY.

Doxogh Mac Carty, the grandfather of this noble-
man, was Viscount Muskerry and first Earl of Clan-
carty. He was General of the Irish forces of Mun-
ster for Charles the First and Charles the Second
against the Parliamentarian Revolutionists. When
resistance was no longer available at home, he brought
off a large body of his countrymen to the Continent ;
and, surviving the Restoration, died in London in
August, 1665. He had by his wife, the Lady Butler,
eldest sister of James the first Duke of Ormond,
Charles, Callaghan, and Justin Mac Carty ; the eldest
fell in battle about two months previous to his father's
decease, in the memorable sea-fight at South-hold Bay,
where James, then Duke of York, at the head of ninety-
eight ships of the line and four fire-ships, gained the
most glorious victory that had ever been obtained by
the English marine, over the naval power of Holland.
This son of Earl Donogh was interred in Westminster
Abbey, and, as he left no issue, the titles and estates
devolved upon his next brother Callaghan, who had
entered upon an ecclesiastical life in France with the
intention of becoming a Priest ; but, on the extinc-
tion of his elder brother's line, he became a Protestant,
married Elizabeth, daughter of the sixteenth Earl of
Kildare, and dying in November, 1676, left issue by her
one son, the above Colonel, born about the year 1670,
He was educated a Protestant by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and bred up at Oxford, " where young

EARL OF CLANCARTY'S INFANTRY.

503

gentlemen in those days did not a learn a compla-
cency for popery, as they have since Sacheverel and
his fellows have been encouraged there."* His uncle
Justin McCarty, without the knowledge of his
mother, married him at sixteen years old to Mary,
daughter of the Earl of Sunderland, who was then a
Court favourite, and immediately sent him to Ireland.
Smith, in his History of Cork, (vol. 1, p. 175, n.)
details some curious particulars respecting this noble-
man's marriage. He and his uncle warmly espoused
the cause of King James. Early in March, 1689, the
townspeople of Bandon fell upon its small Jacobite
garrison under Captain Donell O'Neill, seized their
arms, clothes, &c, and shut the gates against this
Earl Donogh, who was advancing with a reinforce-
ment of six companies to relieve the place.f His
uncle, however, Lieutenant-General Justin, after
taking precautions against any hostile rising in the
City of Cork and its vicinity, compelled the William-
ites of Bandon to seek pardon, open their gates, pay
£1000 fine, and level their walls, which have never
since been rebuilt ; this achievement put an end to any
opposition to James in Munster. On that monarch's
subsequently landing at Kinsale, the Earl of Clancarty
with Tyrconnel received him ; the former entertain-
ing His Majesty, who " made him a Lord of the Bed-
chamber, appointed him Clerk of the Crown and
Peace for the Province by Letters Patent, and

* Memoirs of Ireland (printed 1716), p. 56. f Idem, p. 23.

504 king james's irish army list.

created his Infantry Eegiment a Royal Regiment of
Guards."*

In the Parliament of Dublin, May, 1689, this Earl,
though under age, sat as a Peer by royal dispensation.
In 1690, being in the City of Cork when it was be-
sieged by the Earl, afterwards Duke, of Marlborough,
he was taken prisoner and sent off to the Tower of
London, where he was held until the autumn of 1694,
when he succeeded in making his escape to France,
and there he commanded a troop of King James's
Guards until the peace of Ryswick in 1697. In the
following year he ventured to visit England and his
wife, but was instantly arrested, and was only par-
doned on condition of abjuring the kingdom ; where-
upon he retired to Hamburgh, and, purchasing an
island on the Elbe near Altona, made it his residence
till his death.f He was attainted in 1691 and 1696,
and his forfeitures gave an immense tract of country
to the Crown. A letter of Bartholomew Van Homrigh,
dated 11th December, 1697, in the Southwell MSS.
Collections, says, " the grant of the late Earl of Clan-
carty's estates to Lord Woodstock is this night past
the Great Seal of Ireland, so that all the said estate
is now by law in my Lord Woodstock and his heirs
for ever. "J The extent of the old Irish assessments
which his ancestors levied may be judged from a
previous patent of King James (1608), granting to

* Memoirs of Ireland, p. 24.

f O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 140.

\ Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 26.

EARL OF CLANCARTY'S INFANTRY.

505

Sir Henry Power, Knight, Privy Councillor, all and
singular the seigniories, chief rents, silver rents,
customs of beeves, swine, butter, oats, beer, bran,
honey, and all other services which belonged to Donald,
late Earl of Clancartie, and were forfeited to the
Crown in Kerry and Desmond counties.

At the Court of Chichester House, the Countess of
Clancarty claimed off all the estate of this nobleman
4 a competent maintenance,' and preferred other
charges attaching to the same, but with no success.
Various other claims were advanced as att aching to this
immense territory, and some few were allowed. The
chief purchasers of these estates from the Commission-
ers of the Forfeitures were Alderman James French,
Sir Richard Pyne, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas ; seventeen other private individuals,
and, yet more, the Hollow Swords' Blades Company.

In June, 1704, this Earl's Countess died at the
place of his exile, leaving issue by him two sons,
Robert and Justin. His attainder was reversed and
his honors restored in 1721, but he never returned,
and died at his island retreat in October, 1734, aged
64. His son and heir Robert resided many years at
Boulogne-sur-mer, where he lived an Irish hospitable
life (see Walker's Hibernian Magazine for 1796,
p. 12, &c), and died in 1770, aged 84, he also leaving
two sons. The Brigade Regiment known as Clan-
carty's was commanded by Roger Mc Ellicott (who
had been Governor of Cork when it was taken by the
Earl of Marlborough) ; Edward Scott was its Lieu-

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tenant-Colonel and John Murphy its Major. The

late Compte de Mac Carthy Reagh collected a library,
second in its extent only to that of the King of
France ; no other possessed so large a number of
printed and manuscript books on vellum. On his
death, however, this magnificent collection, like the
estates of the family a century previous, was scattered
amongst strangers.*

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SHELTON.
Nothing known of him or his connexions.

CAPTAIN LORD UPPER OSSORY.

The Mac Gilla Phadruig (Fitz-Patrick) was in the
early period of Irish history Ruler of Ossory, a territory
extending over the whole country between the rivers
Nore and Suir ; and the native annals are full of their
lineage, charitable foundations, and achievements, the
castles they erected, and the abbeys they founded and
endowed. In 1314, Edward the Second directed his
official letter missive to Donogh Mac Gille-Patrick,
as Chief of his Sept, for service and aid in the war to
Scotland. In 1541, Brian Mac Gilla Phadrig was
created Baron of Upper Ossory. His son, the second
Baron, was the companion and favourite of Edward the

* O'Callaghans Green Book, p. 281.

EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY.

507

Sixth. Four letters of his to that young king, re-
lating interesting circumstances connected with the
war in France and Flanders, are preserved in the
British Museum, as are two others from him to the
Earl of Leicester, dated in 1578 and 1579 from
Dublin Castle, where, having incurred Queen Eliza-
beth's displeasure, he was confined a state prisoner.
In the last letter he sought to obtain the Earl's inter-
position with the Queen, accompanying his petition
with a present of ' a very fair hawk of a tried agree.'
When Sir John Perrot convened the Conciliation
Parliament of 1585, " thither went Mc Gill Phadruig
of Ossory, namely Fingin, the son of Bryan, son of
Fingin."* At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny
Bryan Fitz-Patrick, Baron of Upper Ossory, was of
the Temporal Peers ; while Florence Fitz-Patrick of
Lisdunvearney was of the Commons. Cromwell's
Ordinance of 1652 excepted the above Florence Fitz-
Patrick and Colonel John his son from pardon for life

and estate. As the honors of this family are in

abeyance, and the descent of its lines obscure, it may
be here mentioned that in 1674, 28th January, was
buried in the old graveyard of the Catholic aristocracy
at St. James's, Dublin, Dr. Thady Fitz-Patrick, son
to Teigue Oge Fitzpatrick of Akipe, son to Dermot of
Ballyrellin, son to Teigue Oge Mac Teigue of Munni-
drohid. This Dr. Thady married Julian, daughter of
Pierce Martin of Galway, merchant, son of Walter
Martin ; and had issue by her divers children, of

* Annals of the Four Masters, ad arm.

508 king james's irish army list.

whom 'survive' three sons, Patrick, John, and James,
and two daughters, Christian and Anne, as is testified
in a Funeral Entry in Bermingham Tower by Julian

Martin, the widow of Dr.Thady. The above Captain

was Bryan Fitzpatrick, the seventh Baron of Upper
Ossory, whose exploits at Mons are fully detailed in
Harris's Life of William the Third.* He had a pension
of £100 per annum from Charles the Second, which
was on the 1st of January, 1687, continued to him by
King James. He sat in the Parliament of Dublin,
was attainted in 1691, and died in 1696. He had
been married three times, but left no issue by any of
of his wives. In the Act " to hinder the reversal of
several Outlawries and Attainders," passed in the sixth
year of William the Third, it was provided that the
same should not extend to confirm the outlawries of
the late Earl of Upper Ossory, but the same might be
capable of being reversed in such manner as if that
Act had never been made. On his decease his nephew
assumed the title, but it was denied to hjm at law,
and this ancient Barony has been considered thence
extinct. At Chichester House, the Lady Dorothy
his third wife, claimed, as Baroness Dowager of Upper
Ossory, a long term for years in the Queen's County
estates forfeited by her lord's attainder. Of the name
there appear also on this 'Army List,' John Fitzpatrick
a Captain and Darby Fitzpatrick a Lieutenant in
Colonel Edward Butler's Regiment of Infantry ; the
former afterwards became a Major, and was taken

* See its Index Titles ' Ossory' and ' Mons.'

EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY.

509

prisoner in the service. He was described in his
attainder as i of Kilkenny,' the latter of Clooneen,
Queen's County. • A Thady Fitzpatrick, most pro-
bably a relative of the above Dr. Thady, was in 1689
Deputy Lieutenant of the Queen's County, and one of
the Representatives for Maryborough in the Parlia-
ment of Dublin. He too was attainted in 1691, but
afterwards obtained a pardon under the Great Seal.

Besides those before mentioned, there were also at-
tainted in 1691 Terence Fitzpatrick of Kilbredelegg,
Bryan of Moneydriluch and Killdeley, Redmond of
Kilmanbought, Charles of Barnyballeragh, and Flo-
rence of Clonaghill, all in their native County, (the
Queen's); while Dermott Fitzpatrick was a forfeiting
proprietor in the County of Clare. At the siege of
Derry, a Lieutenant Fitzpatrick was killed " in the
orchard on the other side of the walls."* On the first
of May, 1691, "Major Wood, having notice that the
rapparees were in great force about Brittas in the
Queen's County, went out with 300 of my Lord
George Hamilton's and Colonel Lloyd's Foot and fifty
of Colonel Byerly's Horse, with which he first killed
nigh seventy Rapparees, and, leaving part of his men
to secure passes, he went three miles further beyond a
place called the Togher of Malahone, having with him
110 Foot, and 30 Horse ; but, instead of the rappa-
rees whom only he expected, he espied two bodies of
the Irish army said to be near eight hundred in num-
ber. These he encountered, and after several charges

* Walker's Siege of Derry, p. 61.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

at different places put them to the rout, killing one
hundred and fifty on the place, amongst whom was
one Captain Sheales ; and he took Major John Fitz-
patrick (before alluded to) prisoner, who commanded
the party, and seventeen officers more, with six ser-
geants, sixteen corporals, two drummers, and also
eighty privates."* In 1693, at the battle of Landon,
a Colonel Fitzpatrick was woundedf ; and in 1696,
Brigadier-General Edward Fitzpatrick was drowned in
the Holyhead packet with several other officers. The
vessel was cast away by a violent storm near Sutton,
on the Dublin coast. He was the elder brother of
Richard first Lord Gowran, the son of which latter
nobleman was afterwards created Earl of Upper
Ossory.J

In 1732, James Fitzpatrick was killed at the
battle of Oran, in the Spanish service. He had
preferred a claim to the Barony of Upper Ossory
before the House of Lords in the previous year, but
he was considered to have failed in his evidence, and
the issue, which he left, did not prosecute the claim.

ENSIGN GARRET DEASE.

He was of the House of Turbotstown, County of
Westmeath, as was also Richard Dease, and there the

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 73.
f Rawdon Papers, p. 379. .

t Lodge's Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. 2, p. 346.

EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY.

511

family still exists. They were both attainted in
1691, as were Thomas Fitz-Laurence Dease of
Morterstown, and Richard amd Edward Dease of
Glanidan, in the same County.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

RICHARD, EARL OF CLANRICARDE.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. Paul Daly. James Bourk.
Edward Madden."^

Lord Dillon. > Richard de Burgo. David Dowd.
Lieut. Cols. J

Major. Edmund Darcy. j Michael Madden.

Charles Daly. Teigue O'Kelly. Bryan Kelly.

John Bourke. * Luk * Talbot. William Kelly.

Sir Ulick Bourke. Gerald Farrell. Patrick Bermingham.

James Talbot. Marcus French. John French.

Edward Bourke. Hugh Daly. William Kelly.

Henry Crofton. Thady Daly. John Bourke.

John Stephenson. Michael Madden. Ulick ' Bourk.'

John Bermingham. John Bourk. Augustin Bodkin.

William Bermingham.

J ohn Talbot. Bryan ' Maghan. '

Lord Athenree. __ Ulick Bourke.

COLONEL THE EARL OF CLANRICARDE.

This great family of De Burgh deduces its origin
from Charlemagne. His descendant, Baldwin the

512

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Second, was father of Harlowen, who married Arlotta,
the mother of William the Conqueror. His eldest
son by her was Robert, Earl of Cornwall, who accom-
panied his half-brother William in the invasion of
England. The grandson of Robert was Adelm, who
is said to have married Agnes, daughter of Louis the
Seventh, King of France, and he was father to
William, who married Isabella, daughter of Richard
the Second, King of England, and widow of the cele-
brated Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. He founded with
pious policy the Monastery of St. Thomas a-Becket
in Dublin, and was father of Richard De Burgh, the
great Lord of Connaught, Viceroy of Ireland in 1227,
and who died in 1243, when on his passage to
France, attended by his Barons and Knights, to meet
the King of England at Bourdeaux. He had two
sons, Walter, Lord of Connaught, who, marrying
Maud, daughter and heiress of Hugh De Lacie the
Younger, became in her right Earl of Ulster on the
death of his father-in-law, and who left by his said
wife, Richard, the second Earl of Ulster, commonly
known as the Red Earl. His great grand-daughter,
the Lady Elizabeth De Burgh, only child and heiress
of William, third Earl of Ulster, married Lionel,
Duke of Clarence, son of Edward the Third ; from
which marriage most of the Crowned Heads of Europe
are descended ; those of England, Scotland, Denmark,
France, Bohemia, Sardinia, Spain, Prussia, Saxony,
Bavaria, Hungary, &c, as all laid down on author-
ities and in tables by Doctor Burke Ryan of London,

EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 513

with a kind hope that it might suit the present work ;
but, as the record was not found to interest the pre-
cent generation, the expense of such an addition was
reluctantly declined. William, the second son of
Richard the Lord of Connaught, derived large estates
(beyond the two Provinces of Connaught and Ulster),
in Tipperary, where, according to his namesake De
Burgo, the historian of the Irish Dominican order,
the name was then still widely extended; although, a
few years previous to the time of that laborious wri-
ter, a large portion of the estates of the Tipperary
Bourkes was granted to Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight
and Privy Councillor. The Attainders of 1642 give
but one of this name, John Bourke, described as ' of
Dublin.' At the Supreme Council of 1646, John
' Burke,' Bishop of Clonfert, was of the Spiritual
Peers; William Burke, Baron of Castleconnell, of the
Temporal; and of the Commons were John Burke of
Castlecaroe, Richard of Drumrusk, William of Pol-
lardstown, Richard of Shellewly, Theobald of Buoly-
burk, and Ulick Burke of Glinsk. Cromwell's Act
4 for settling Ireland' excepted from pardon for life
and estate Miles ' Bourk,' Viscount Mayo, Sir Theo-
bald Bourk his son ; Edmund of Cloghan, County of
Mayo; Thomas of Anbally, and Redmond of Kilcornin,
both in the County of Galway. The Royal declara-
tion of thanks, as for services beyond the seas,
includes the names of the Earl of Clanricarde ; David
Bourk of Barnanlahie, County of Tipperary; Sir Ulick
Bourk, Knight and Baronet, of Glinsk; Lieutenant

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William Bourke of Turlogh, County of Mayo ; and
Captain William Mac Redmond Bourke. Lords Brit-
tas and Castleconnell were on the Establishment of
1617-18 for pensions of £100 per annum each.

In King James's Charters to the Boroughs of Gal-
way, Limerick, Mayo, Cavan, and Koscommon, this
family was numerously represented. In the Parlia-
ment of 1689 sat amongst the Peers this Earl of
Clanricarde, the Viscount Mayo, the Lord Castlecon-
nel, Lord Bophin, and Lord Brittas. The father of
this latter nobleman, the Honorable William Bourke,
served in the Royalist cause during the Civil Avar of
1641, and by Cromwell's order was executed at Cork
in 1653. His son, the Lord here spoken of, served
as above, a Colonel in King James's army. He
married the Lady Honora, daughter of Morrough,
the first Earl of Inchequin, by whom he left a son, dis-
inherited by his attainder. This son resided at St.
Germains, assumed the title of Lord Brittas, and died
in France, leaving issue by his wife Catherine,
daughter of Colonel Gordon O'Neill, two sons; John,
styled Lord Brittas, a Captain in the French service;
and Thomas, a Lieutenant-General in the Sardinian.*

In the Commons sat Sir Ulick Bourke, one of

the Representatives for Gal way ; John of Carrickni-
hill, one for Askeaton ; Walter, one for the County of
Mayo ; Thomas for Castlebar ; William Bourke of
Carrowford for the Borough of Tuam ; and John
Bourke for the County of Roscommon. Besides this,

* Burke's Extinct Peerage.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 515

the Earl of Clanricarde's Regiment, Walter Bourke
was Colonel of a second Regiment of Infantry, Patrick
of a third, and Michael of a fourth; while the name
appears commissioned in twenty-two other Regiments
on this list.

At the siege of Deny in 1689, a Lieutenant Burke
was killed on the occasion of the attack by the wind-
mill.* In the following year, William Burke of the
Mayo line, who had been appointed Governor of the
Castle of Grange in the County of Sligo, was ordered
by King James to defend it ; when, being vigorously
besieged and disappointed of promised succours, at the
moment that the besiegers were about to enter the
breach he blew up the Castle, and, with many of his
enemies, was buried in the ruins. On the 7th of
June, 1691, Baron De Ginkle appeared before Bally-
more on the line to Athlone, and summoned the Irish
Governor, Sir Ulick Burke, to surrender. "The gar-
rison consisted of 800 men, the elite of the Irish, be-
ing picked . men from all the Regiments. In the space
of twenty-four hours, six batteries crumbled) all the
works to the south, and the appearance of a flotilla
on the lake induced a surrender. Burke, the
Governor," adds O'Conor, " is charged with treachery
and cowardice in King James's Memoir; it would
appear rather that vanity induced the defence, and
incapacity the surrender ;"f and it does appear from
Story that the Governor had no greater artillery in

* Walkers Siege of Derry, p. 61.
t O'Connor's Milit. Mem. p. 135

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the place than ' two small Turkish pieces mounted
upon old cart wheels.'* The Irish Engineer, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Burton, was slain. Colonel David

Burke was killed at Aughrim with another Ulick
Burke, who had been for a time Governor of Galway;f
while a Colonel Neill Burke, his Lieutenant, with
Colonel Walter Burke and Lord Bophin, were taken
prisoners. On the 2nd of September, 1691, writes
Story, " Brigadier Levison, learning where Lord Mer-
rion's and Lorcl Brittas's Regiments lay, marched as
privately as he could that way ; and about one
o'clock in the morning he fell in with them, killing
several and dispersing the rest, Lord Merrion himself
(Thomas Fitz-William) escaping narrowly. Then he
divided his party to pursue their broken troops, but
they knowing that country, made most of them a
shift to escape. ''J

The Colonel of this Regiment was a Privy Council-
lor, and was appointed Governor of Galway by King
James ; which, having been besieged by De Ginkle
fourteen days after the battle of Aughrim, he was
compelled to surrender.§ O'Conor, in his Military
Memoirs, (vol. 1, p. 161) denounces this surrender
as a treacherous compromise. " Lord Clanricarde,"
writes that historian, " inherited neither the courage
nor the loyalty of his ancestor, the great Earl of St.

* Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 87.
f Clarke's James II., v. 2. p. 459.
\ Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 204.
§ Clarke's James II. vol 2, p. 459.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 517

Albans ; he compounded his honor for personal
security, and, quitting the service of James, remained
at Galway, though by the capitulation he was at
liberty to march to Limerick." The Outlawries of
1691 include this Earl by two Inquisitions, William,
Baron of Castleconnell, and Ulick, Lord Viscount
Galway, Lord Brittas, and John his son ; eighteen
Burkes or Bourkes in Mayo ; John Burke of Ower,
and fifteen others in Galway ; six in Limerick, five in
Roscommon, two in Dublin and Wexford respectively,
and one in each of the Counties of Sligo, Cavan, and
the Queen's. In 1696, the name of the Lady Honora
Burke, alias Sarsfield, and then Duchess of Berwick
before alluded to, was entered in the Outlawries. Sir
Ulick the Baronet was also attainted, but adjudged
within the benefit of the Articles of Limerick. The
achievements of the Brigade of Colonel Walter Burke,
styled ' the Regiment of Athlone,' are referred to that
Colonel's own Regiment in this service, hereafter
noticed, but it may be here added that a Regiment
commanded by a son of the attainted Lord of Castle-
connell was distinguished at the battle of Cremona ;
while, at that of Lauffield in 1747, Walter Burke
was taken prisoner in Bulkeley's Regiment ; and
in Dillon's, Captain Pierce 1 Bourke ' was killed, and
Captain Anthony Bourk wounded.

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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWARD MADDEN.

The Sept of the 0' Maddens were chiefs of what is now
styled the Barony of Longford in the County of
Galway, with a portion of the parish of Lusmagh in
the King's County, on the opposite side of the Shan-
non ; this whole territory being in the Chronicles of
the country called 4 Silanchia.' The Annals of Ulster
record the death of Matodhan, Lord of Silanchia, in
the year 1008, who seems to have given their distinc-
tive name to his descendants. In 1059, Melaghlin
O'Madden was the leader of a military expedition re-
corded by the Four Masters. The same Chronicle
mentions the death of Matodhan O'Madden, chief of
Silanchia, in 1096 ; and subsequently gives various
other annals of this family. In 1540, the Lord
Deputy was instructed to confirm treaties between the
King and Melaghlin O'Madden and Hugh O'Madden,
Chiefs of their country.* In 1567, on the submission
of Donald O'Madden, who prayed " to be recognised in
the Captaincy of his Sept, (with the country of Long-
fort and Silankey, commonly called O'Madden's
country, w hereof Hugh Mac Melaghlin Ballagh
O'Madden, deceased, was the late Captain) his petition
was granted, on the condition of said Donald paying
to the Lord Deputy at Mullingar, for a fine, eighty fat
heifers."f When, in eighteen years after, Sir John
Perrot assembled the Conciliation Parliament in Dub-

* State Papers, temp. Henry VIII., pt. 3 continued, p. 171.
t Roll 9 Eliz. in Chancery.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 519

lin, " thither went O'Madden, Lord of Siol-Amcha,
namely Donald, the son of John, son of Breasal," i. e.
the same Donald of 1567. The O'Maddens were,
however, soon after implicated in such resistance to
the government, as led to deaths and confiscations of
many of the name; and in 1606, John King, of Dub-
lin, had a grant of the estates of various O'Maddens
in the County of Galway and the King's County,
1 slain in rebellion ;' as had also Sir John Davis, the
Attorney-General of the day, of others described as
the estate of Bresail O'Madden of the County of
Clare, 'slain in rebellion.' In 1612, however, Donald
O'Madden, then still the Captain, settled on trustees
his Manor and Castle of Longfort, and all his other
estates in that part of the County of Galway, to hold
to the use of Ambrose O'Madden his son and heir in
tail male ; with remainder to his other sons Malachy
and Donell, and their respective heirs male ; remainder
to Brasil O'Madden, son of Hugh, one of the sons of
Donell, in tail male ; remainder to the heirs of
Ambrose O'Madden in fee.* A Manuscript Book of
Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. IV. 18.) con-
tains links of the pedigree of the O'Maddens of Bag-
gotrath, near Dublin, through six generations of the
16th and 17th centuries, also some links of those of
Donore, County of Dublin.

Besides the above Lieutenant-Colonel, Michael
Madden was an Ensign in this Regiment, John Mad-
den a Lieutenant in the Earl of Tyrone's ; another

* Patent Roll James I .

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John an Ensign in Lord Bophin's, and in Colonel
Heward Oxburgh's Hugh Madden was a Captain, and
J ohn a Lieutenant. This Lieutenant-Colonel Edward
was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim ;* but,
having afterwards obtained his liberty, he repaired to
France, where, as before mentioned, ante, p. 478, he was
commissioned as Major in the Brigade of Fitz- James,
the Grand Prior. Five of this name were attainted
in 1691.

CAPTAIN CHARLES DALY.

This family claims descent from Nial of the Nine
Hostages, one of the most illustrious of Irish Kings,
and whose reign synchronises with the time of the
Saviour. The Sept extended itself at a very remote
period over Munster and Connaught, as well as in
the Barony of Clonlonan, County of Westmeath ;
and, through the long lapse of years, have they been
eminently distinguished as poets and annalists, and
are so commemorated by the Four Masters. In
1337, died Lewis O'Daly, Bishop of Clonmacnoise,
while that interesting locality was yet a Bishop's See.

About the same time O'Daly of Munster had a

grant of Moynter-barry, on a customary tenure of
that time, of being Rythmour or Chronicler of the
Chief Lord and of his achievements, f In 1410,

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138.
t Pacata Hibernia, p. 529.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 521

John O'Daly had licence from the crown for making
a pilgrimage to Rome, the penalties against absentee-
ism making such a sanction necessary. In 1436,
Nicholas O'Daly was by the Pope's Bull appointed
Bishop of Athenry. It is alleged that in the middle
of the succeeding century, in consequence of a wish
expressed by the King of Denmark to Queen Eliza-
beth, to have Irish manuscripts then in his possession
translated, one Donald Daly was selected for the
work ; but that the project was abandoned, being
opposed in Council, 'lest it might be prejudicial to
the English interest.' In 1582, Robert Daly died
Bishop of Kildare. In 1606, John King, of Dublin,
had a grant of parcel of the estate of Morrogh O'Daly
of Ballinakill in the King's County, ' slain in rebel-
lion.' By a remarkable deed of 1612, Donough, son
of Laughlin Roe O'Daly of Finvara in the County
of Clare, " in consideration of six pounds of pure
crowned stamped money of England, (as pure, as
refined, and as valuable as that coin now is in Eng-
land, and as it was when first it was made current,
consisting of four ounces to every pound,)" then stated
to have been received by said Donough from An-
thony, son of James, son of Ambrose Lynch of Galway,
merchant, conveyed to him certain premises in Finvara,
with royalties 4 over and under ground,' as his pro-
portion of the estate of Finvara held by the Daly
family from the Earl of Thomond.* Early in the
Civil war of 1641, the Marquis of Clanricarde

* Hardiman's Ancient Deeds, pp. 91-2.

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committed the custody and safe-keeping of the Castle
of Clare-Galway to Lieutenant Dermot O'Daly, 1 who
did very good service there.' He was the grandson of
Dermot O'Daly, who in 1478 obtained a grant of the
Manor of Lerha with all its appurtenances. The At-
tainders of 1641 comprise the names of Loughlin
Daly of Little Clonshaugh, County of Dublin ; Donogh
Hugh Buy Daly of Neeston, County of Kildare ; and
Eneas O'Daly of Ballyrowne, County of Cork. In
1662, died Daniel O'Daly a native of Kerry, who had
founded the Dominican convent at Lisbon ; he after-
wards became an especial favourite and confidential
ambassador of the Duke of Braganza, when that noble-
man succeeded to the throne of Portugal. O'Daly
wrote a work giving full historical particulars of the
family of Desmond, long rare, but now reprinted.
He was himself buried in the convent he had so estab-
lished.

In this Regiment, besides Captain Charles, Paul,
Hugh and Thady Daly were Lieutenants, and the
name was in commission in four others. This Captain
Charles was of the Dunsandle family, and in King-
James's Parliament of 1689 was one of the Represent-
atives for the Borough of Athenry ; as was Richard
Daly of Kilcorky for that of Newborough, County of
Wexford. Charles was brother of the Right Honora-
ble Denis Daly, who was appointed one of the Justices
of the Common Pleas in Ireland at the commencement
of the reign of James the Second. Colonel O'Kelly, in
the ' Eoccidium Macariw] while he admits his ' great

EARL OF clanricarde's l\fantry. 523

knowledge of the law,' says he was one of Tyrconnel's
confidants, and therefore imprisoned in Galway by the
young Duke of Berwick, as on suspicion of keeping
private correspondence with the common enemy ; but,
adds 0 'Kelly, " his deliverer was near at hand, for,
within a few days after his confinement, he had the
good fortune to hear of Tyrconnel's landing at Lime-
rick ; and no sooner was he arrived there, than he
made use of his prerogative to enlarge the Judge, and
restore him, without further trial, to his former
station and dignity.* He was included in the
Attainders of 1691, but in 1698 obtained a pardon
from the Crown as in pursuance of the Capitulation of
Galway, and the special promise of the Earl of Ath-
lone. The Dalys attainted in 1691 were Peter and
Terence of Killileigh, County of Westmeath, (Thomas
Daly was then the head of the Killileigh line, but was
a minor) ; Eugene of Cork, merchant ; John, also
of Cork ; John of Cloghrevanny, County of Galway ;
Edward of Kilmeny, do. ; with the above Judge
Denis and Captain Charles. At the sale of 1703 by
the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates, Colonel
John Eyre of Eyrecourt purchased the lands of Bally-
house and Killevany in the Barony of Longford and
County of Galway, the estate of Teigue or Hugh Daly,
attainted. This Hugh was the father of Teigue, which
latter had died in 1691, leaving four sons, the three
elder of whom were in King James's army, and after
the surrender of Limerick went into France. Lough-

* O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 106.

524 king james's irish army list.

lin Daly, the fourth son, subsequently in 1711 sought
to recover these estates from the Eyres by proceedings
in Chancery, alleging that the conveyance from the
Trustees was for his benefit; but his claim was de-
feated.

In 1746, Ensign Daly in Monroe's Regiment was
one of those wounded at the battle of Culloden. The
Mayor of Gralway from 1761 to some few years since
was in almost unbroken succession a Daly, while the
Parliamentary representation of the town was like-
wise long held by the family.

CAPTAIN JAMES TALBOT.

This individual was the proprietor of Templeogue in
the County of Dublin, and represented the borough of
Athenry in King James's Parliament. At the battle
of Aughrim he had the command of a Regiment, and
was there killed.* He forfeited largely in the County
of Gralway, and in the County and City of Dublin.
His estates in the latter county were sold by the com-
missioners of the forfeitures to Sir Compton Domville.

CAPTAIN JOHN STEPHENSON.

This officer is described in the Inquisition on his out-
lawry as of Ballyvaughan, County of Limerick ; but

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 525

his confiscations were of estates in that of Clare.
John Stephenson was an attesting witness to the ar-
ticles of Galway. In the reign of James the First,
William and Richard 'Stevenson' had patents of na-
turalization, and the name was yet earlier introduced
in Munster in the time of Elizabeth. In 1600, the
custody of the castle of Corkroge on the Shannon was
entrusted to Oliver Stephenson* who became a Col-
onel in the Austrian service, but in 1648 petitioned
Ferdinand the Third to permit him to resign his com-
mission and fight against Cromwell when invading
Ireland, f His prayer was granted, and he afterwards
fell at the battle of Liscarrol. It may be observed
that an Oliver Stephenson was Captain on this List in
Colonel Eoger Mc Ellicott's Infantry, where Nicholas
Stephenson was his Lieutenant.

CAPTAINS LORD ATHENRY AND JOHN AND
WILLIAM BERMINGHAM.

This historic name has been early projected on the
Irish chronicles. In 1302, Henry de Bermingham,
afterwards Sheriff of Connaught,J was one of the
' Magnates ' of Ireland who attended the Earl of Uls-
ter on the Royal summons to the Scottish war ; soon
after which Sir John Bermingham was created Earl

* Pacata Hibernia, p. 123.

f O'Conor's Hist. Address, pt. 2, p. 466.

\ Harris's Hibernica, pt. 2, p. 35.

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of Louth, by reason of his gallant and successful resis-
tance to Brace's invasion. It is recorded that on the
death of Lord Walter de Bermingham in 1354, in-
debted to the King, his estates with his armour were
taken by the Escheator ; but King Edward at once
restored the armour piece by piece, as in a schedule,
to Sir Eobert de Preston, who was guardian of Lord
Walter's infant son, in trust to deliver same to him on
his coming of age.* In 1402, John Bermingham was
appointed a Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland.
In 1464, Philip Bermingham was constituted Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas there; he, in 1488, did
homage to Sir Richard Edgecombe. In 1489, Wil-
liam Bermingham died Chief Justice of the King's
Bench, to which high judicial office Patrick Berming-
ham was appointed in 1521. At the meeting of the
Irish Parliament in 1541, considerable surprise is
said to have been caused by the unexpected attendance
of Lord Bermingham of Athenry, Lord Barry, Lord
Roche, and Lord Fitz-Morris ; 'which Lords had not
been here for many years before. 'f These noblemen,
together with the Earls of Ormond and Desmond, and
the Baron of Upper Ossory, previous to opening Par-
liament, as Saint Leger the Lord Deputy in his zeal
announced to Henry the Eighth, "attended the solemn
mass of the Holy Ghost, the most part of them in their
robes, and rode on in procession, in such sort as the like
thereof has not been seen here of many years. "J

* Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 12. t Idem, p. 88.

} State Papers, temp. Henry VIII. pt. 3 continued, p. 304.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 527

Lord Athenry sat in the Parliament of 1560 ; and,
in seven years after, having avowed himself to the
Queen under recognizance, a faithful subject of the
Crown, and offered to surrender his estates for himself
and his Sept, and to receive back from her Majesty the
same according to her pleasure, she in consideration
thereof directed a patent to pass to him accordingly
in tail male.* He sat as a Peer in the Parliament of
1585. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of
the above William Bermingham, described as of Bally -
namallough, County of Kildare ; John Bermingham
of Eaheen and Muckland, with six others of the name
in the County of Cavan, and three in that of Dublin,
one in Wicklow, and one in Meath. At the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny, Francis Bermingham, then Lord
Athenry, sat as a Temporal Peer : with four Ber-
minghams in the Commons. This Lord Athenry was,
in 1652, excepted by Cromwell's Ordinance from par-
don for life and estate.

Besides the above Captains, the name appears on
this List commissioned in three other Kegiments. In
King James's Parliament of 1689 sat this Lord
Athenry as one of the Peers, while the above John
Bermingham, who was Portrieve of Castlebar in its
new Charter, sat as one of its Eepresentatives. Near
the close of this campaign, on the 19th of August,
1691, by the Articles for the surrender of the island
and garrison of Bophin, "Lord Athenry and Colonel
John Kelly, with all the inhabitants of said island,

* Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 216.

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were permitted to possess and enjoy their estates
therein, as they held them nnder the Acts of Settle-
ment and Explanation."* The Attainders of 1691
include the names of the above Lord Athenry ; of said
Captain, described as John Bermingham of Castlebar,
County of Mayo; with two of the name in Meath, two
in the Queen's County, three in Kildare, and two in
Galway.

LIEUTENANT EDMUND D'ARCY.

The family of D'Arcy, writes Burke,f "ranks with
the most eminent established in England by the Nor-
man conquest, and amongst the peerages of past times.
There are two Baronies in abeyance, one forfeited
Barony, and three extinct Baronies, all of which had
been conferred upon the House of D'Arcy, besides the
extinct Earldom of Holderness." The D'Arcys of
Hyde Park are the chief and eldest existing line of
this ancient race in Ireland, and to Sir Bernard Burke's
memoir of that House the genealogical inquirer is
best referred. Of this family, Sir John D'Arcy,
Knight, had been Chief Justiciary and Governor of
Ireland in 1324, 1327, and 1341 ; on the latter
occasion, the appointment was made to him for life.
He had large grants to him and his heirs male of
manors and lands in the County of Westmeath, with

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 201.
f Landed Gentry, p. 306.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 529

Knight's fees and advowsons of churches; and, marry-
ing twice, had by his first wife a son, who was ances-
tor of the D'Arcys, Barons D'Arcy and Moynell, and
of the Earls of Holderness. His second wife was
Jane, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster,
and widow of Thomas Fitz-John, Earl of Kildare; upon
which marriage he settled in Ireland, and became the
founder of the family of Platten, from which the other
D'Arcys of this country have branched. When Lam-
bert Simnel shook the allegiance of Ireland, and was
crowned King at Christ Church Cathedral in 1487,
it is related that Sir William D'Arcy of Platten bore
him out on his shoulders, after the ceremony, to the
deluded multitude. Sir William was however par-
doned in the following year, on doing homage to Sir
Richard Edgecombe.

The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Ni-
cholas D'Arcy of Platten, County of Meath (who had
attended the great meeting at the hill of Crofty),
Francis D'Arcy of Ballymount, County of Kildare ;
and Christopher of Athlumney, County of Meath.
Nicholas of Platten had, however, a Decree of Inno-
cence in 1666, and was further restored to his estates
by patent of 1670. Patrick D'Arcy of the Galway line
was one of the Confederate Catholics who sat at Kil-
kenny in 1646, and he was accordingly excepted from
pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652.
In the Establishment of 1685, Sir William D'Arcy was
placed for a pension of £400 per annum ; while, in
the new Charter of 1687 to Galway, six D'Arcys were

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appointed Burgesses. Besides the above Lieutenant,
there appear on this Army List, Nicholas D'Arcy, a
Cornet in Lord Dongan's Dragoons (afterwards
wounded at Deny), and Thomas D'Arcy, a Quarter-
Master in Sir Neill O'Neill's. A short time previous
to the battle of the Boyne, Killeshandra, which was
garrisoned by one hundred and sixty Irish under the
command of a Captain D'Arcy, was obliged to surrender
to Colonel Wolseley.* Those attainted in 1691 were
Nicholas D'Arcy, described as of Platten (who had
been nominated an Alderman in King James's Charter
to Drogheda), George D'Arcy his son, and Thomas
D'Arcy of Corbetstown and Porterstown, County of
Westmeath. Various claims were preferred at Chi-
chester House in 1700, as affecting the confiscations
of Nicholas D'Arcv in Westmeath.

LIEUTENANT BRYAN MAHON.

This officer was of a family that, as appears from the
Patent Rolls of James, settled about this time in the
County of Gal way, and, as well from the date of its
migration being contemporaneous with the planting
of Ulster, as from the adoption of the same christian
names, appears to have ^branched from the illustrious
House of Mac Mahon, dynast of Monaghan. His
father, Bryan Mahon the Elder, of Loughrea, was in
1665 possessed of considerable property in that neigh-

* Rawdon Papers, p. 322.

EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY.

531

bourhood, the leasehold portion of which, having been
held under Lord Bophin, was, on the attainder of that
nobleman, the subject of claim before the Commis-
sioners at Chichester House, on the part of his widow
Maggin Mahon, alias Power, who was afterwards
interred with her husband in the family vault at the
old Abbey of Loughrea. They left two sons ; the
elder, James, became the ancestor of the Mahons of
Beech-hill, County of Galway ; the second, this Bryan,
who was advanced to a Captaincy before his death,
(which occurred in 1719), became a conformist, and
was ancestor of the Baronets of Castlegar.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

ALEXANDER, EARL OF ANTRIM.

The Colonel.
Mark Talbot,

Captains.

Lieutenants.
Archibald M'Donnel.
Denis Callaghan.

Ensigns.
Randall M'Donnell.

Lieut.-Col.
James Wogan,

Francis Moore.

Con. O'Rourke.

Major.

Edmund O'Reilly.
Manus O'Donnell.
Ulick Bourke.

Daniel M'Donald.
Bryan M'Ginnis.
Arthur Magill.

Lord of Enniskillen.

Hugh O'Neill.

f Eneas M'Donnel.
I John O'Neill.

Bryan O'Neill.

Bryan Magrath.

Bryan O'Neill.

Terence M'Sweeny.

John O'Neill.

Francis O'Neill.

Augustine M'Donnell.
Fran. Reilly.

John O'Cahan.
Eneas M'Donnell,
Turlogh O'Neill.
John M'Manus.

John M'Donald.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

COLONEL ALEXANDER McDONNEL, EARL
OF ANTRIM.

About the middle of the fifteenth century, the
McDonnels or McConnells, Lords of the Western
Isles of Scotland, established a branch of their family
in Antrim, by the marriage of John McConnell with
Sarah, daughter of Phelim O'Neill of Clandeboy. He
thereupon principally resided in Ireland, and the
alliance seems to have given rise to a claim set up
by the McConnells to Clandeboy. John Mc Connell,
junior, his heir, was knighted by King James the
Fourth of Scotland ; but afterwards, about 1494, re-
belled against him, for which he and three of his sons
were taken and executed at Edinburgh. The two
eldest, Alexander and Angus, on the deaths of their
kindred, fled to Ireland, where Mac Cahane gave his
daughter Catherine in marriage to Alexander. James,
the heir of that marriage, passed over to Scotland,
leaving his brother ' Sorleboy ' to hold possession of the
Glyns in Antrim. He, however, having been after-
wards, about 1565, hardly pressed by the O'Neill, soli-
cited and obtained his brother's assistance. O'Neill at
once gave them battle with signal success, James was
killed, and Sorleboy taken prisoner; they had a brother,
Angus the younger, also killed on this occasion. Sor-
leboy afterwards married Mary, daughter of Con
( Boccagh) O'Neill, by whom he had issue James, who
was knighted by James the Sixth on visiting Edm-

earl of Antrim's infantry.

533

burgh* Sorleboy remained in Ireland, having been
established on his estates by Queen Elizabeth, but his
brothers returned to Scotland ; and one of their de-
scendants, Coll Kittach, the son of Archibald, was
father to AlisterMac Coll, who, as hereafter mentioned,
was sent by the first Marquis of Antrim to join
Montrose at Tippermuir. Coll Kittach himself be-
came the prisoner of the Marquis of Argyle, and was
executed at Dunstaffnage, near Oban.

An old family Manuscript of the Mac Quillanes,
purporting to give a catalogue of the Orgillian Princes,
descended from Colla Uais, the grandson of King
Carbry, mentions Mugdorne as the 38th on this suc-
cession, in whose time it says, " in 1580, Coll Mac Don-
nell came to Ireland, being the fifth lineal descendant
from Donald, King or Lord of the Hebrides and of
Cantyre. His clandestine marriage with a daughter
of Mac Quillan, Lord of Eathmor-Mac-Quillan, now
Dunluce, was the cause of a war between these two
families ; which was not terminated till 1610, when
James the First of England unjustly deprived
Mac Quillan of his lands, and divided them amongst
his patentees, which lands are now some of the best
improved in Ireland. To Mc Donnell, the son-in-law
or brother-in-law of Mac Quillan, he gave the four
great Baronies of Dunluce, Carie, Ballycastle, and
Glenarm, with the island of Eaghery ; to Sir John
Chichester he gave the Barony of Belfast and town of
Carrickfergus ; to the Seymours and Con ways part of

* Gregory MSS.

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Massareene ; to the Skeffingtons another portion of
Massareene ; and several other persons he ennobled
at that time or soon after, some of whom were not the
most loyal subjects to his son Charles the First."
Previous to this period, Hugh O'Donnell, chief of his
nation, married a daughter of James McDonnel, Lord
of the Isles, by whom he had the celebrated hero, Ked
' Hugh O'Donnel,' in whose ensuing wars with the
Queen, the McDonnels afforded him great assistance.
James Mac Sorleboy, before alluded to, was one of
those who supported O'Neill at the battle of the Black-
water. The Four Masters contain many annals of
this family, that cannot be brought forward here.

In 1613, King James directed his mandatory let-
ter for an Act of Parliament to secure Sir Randal
Mac Sorley McDonnell in all his lands, &c. in Ulster,
to hold to him and his heirs male by his wife Elly ny
Neale, remainder to the heirs male of his body and to
those of Alexander McDonnel, his cousin, and of Con
McDonnel his late cousin successively, remainder to
the right heirs of Sir Randal for ever. In 1618, the
same Monarch created this Sir Randal, who was a de-
scendant of the Lords of the Isles and grand-father of
the nobleman at present under consideration, Viscount
Dunluce in the Peerage of Ireland, and in two years
after advanced him to the Earldom of Antrim. On
the Attainders of 1642 appear of this name six in the
County of Wicklow, three in Cork, two in Dublin,
and one in Kildare. Randal, then Earl, and his bro-
ther, this Alexander, were also affected by attainder,

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but were by a clause in the Act of Settlement restored
to their estates (excepting tithes).

In 1644, the gallant Montrose, desirous to raise
forces in Ireland to uphold the Royal cause in Scot-
land, commissioned Earl Randal, as an Irishman by
birth and a Scot by descent, to effectuate the import-
ant object ; and, for facilitating these levies, he directed
the Marquess of Ormonde, then Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, to procure a cessation of arms there between
the Catholics and the Protestants, both parties being
then considered alike favourable to the enlistment.
Accordingly, when Montrose himself entered Scotland
with but two companies, he was joined by 1,200 Irish
recruits, commanded by Alexander McDonnell, whom
Earl Randal (then advanced to a Marquisate) sent
over to the cause. This Alexander or Alister Mac
Coll, son of Coll Kittach as before mentioned, had
Coll his eldest son, from whom was lineally descended
the late Doctor McDonnell, lpng the national and
literary attraction of Belfast. Another son of Alister
was Archibald, the Lieutenant in this Regiment, who
died in 1720, aged 73, and was buried in the secluded
churchyard of Layde on the coast of Antrim ; as was
his son Coll, who died in 1737, and Coil's son
Alexander, who died in 1793.

To return to Earl Randal : he died in 1682, when
the Marquisate became extinct ; but the other honors
continued to his son, the above Colonel, who also had
taken an active part in the Civil war of 1641, and
was attainted therefor, but restored by the Act of
Settlement. In 1646, being then Earl of Antrim in
ihs father's life-time, he sat as one of the Temporal

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Peers at the Supreme Council in Kilkenny ; while
James McDonnel of Muff (who was also buried atLarne)
and Allen McDonnell of Muntaghwereof theCommons.
The Declaration of Royal Thanks in the Act of 1662,
" for services beyond the seas," includes Lieutenant
Charles and Ensign Alexander Mc Donnell. In
1686, this Earl was appointed of King James's Privy
Council, in which year another Alexander Mc Donnell
was Sheriff of Leitrim. In 1688, a Colonel Mc
Donnell garrisoned Boyle, and " prevented the transit
of Protestants with goods and provisions towards the
garrison of Sligo ; which, on being requested to per-
mit, he affected so to do, but afterwards declined to
perform, though we looked upon him as one of the
fairest reputation among the Irish in these parts.
On the approach, however, of our party, he drew all
his Horse, Foot, and Dragoons within the walls of
Lord Kingston's house and garden."*

Besides the Colonel^ there were six other Mc Don-
nells holding commissions in this Regiment. In
Lord Clare's Dragoons Thomas 'Donell' was a Cornet ;
Charles Mc Donnell was a Lieutenant in the King's
own Infantry ; and in the Earl of Westmeath's, Bryan
was a Lieutenant, as was Francis in Colonel John
Grace's. The Parliament of Dublin in 1689 was
attended by this Earl amongst the Peers ; while,
amongst the Commons, a Randal Mc Donnell sat as
one of the Representatives of the County of Antrim,
as did Alexander Mc Donnell for the Borough of

* Mackenzie's Derry, p. 16.

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Jamestown, County of Leitrim. A short time pre-
vious to this assembly, Tyrconnel "commanded this
Earl to quarter at Derry with his Regiment, consis-
ting of a numerous swarm of Irish and Highlanders,"*
but the gates were closed against them. The town
then, however, agreed, on capitulation, to admit two
companies, being Protestants ; and Lieutenant-Colonel
Lundy was appointed by Lord Mountjoy, Governor.
During the subsequent siege, a Captain Mc Donnell
was taken prisoner. f A letter of the Duke of Berwick,
dated 5th July, 1689, mentioning his having had a
skirmish with the enemy near Trellick, adds that
Captain Bellew and Major Mc Donnell commanded
his vanguard on the occasion. About this time an
Alexander Mc Donnell was appointed by Lord Tyr-
connel Governor of Galway ; and he, in the progress of
the campaign, became a Brigadier-General. Colonel
O'Kelly, in his Excidium Macarice, says he was a
"soldier of fortune, raised by merit from the ranks
and Croker, in his notes on that little work, adds
that he was otherwise called 4 Mc Gregor,' and was of
Drumsna, County of Leitrim. He married in 1685
the Lady Jane Nugent, a sister of Thomas Nugent,
afterwards created Lord Riverston. In December,
1690, he was removed from the Government of Gal-
way.J It is remarkable that in the Outlawries of
1691 he is styled Alexander Mc Donnell, alias Gregor,
alias Boyd, of Clonin, County of Westmeath. At the

* Walker's Derry, p. 11. f Idem, p. 61.

t Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 423.

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same time were attainted six Mc Donnels of Antrim,
four of Mayo, two of Leitrim, and one of Roscommon
and Clare respectively. This Earl of Antrim was
outlawed on three Inquisitions taken in Dublin,
Derry, and Antrim ; but, being included in the sa-
vings of the Articles of Limerick, he was restored to
his estates, and died in 1699. At the petty Court of
St. Germains, Captain 'Mc Donald' was one of the
grooms of the bedchamber ;* while, from the Des-
patches of Sir Paul Bycaut, it appears that in 1693
a large body of Irish exiles was sent from France,
under the command of a Colonel Mc Donnel, for the
service of the Emperor in Hungary. f

At Chichester House, in 1700, sundry claims were
preferred as charges on Mc Donnell estates, some of
which were allowed. In 1710, Mc Donnell's Irish
Brigade did signal service in Spain,! and, in the pre-
sent century, the name has been chronicled there on
great achievements. In 1746, Colonel John Mc
Donell of Fitz-James's Brigade was a state prisoner at
Inverness. In 1814, a Colonel Alexander Mc Don-
nel distinguished himself at the siege of Dantzic.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MARK TALBOT.
See of him, ante, p. 49.

* Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 411.

| See Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 69.

I O'Conor's Military Memoirs, v. 1, p. 353.

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539

MAJOR JAMES WOGAN.

This name is also projected on the records of Ireland
from the earliest years after the Invasion. In 1295,
Sir John Wogan was Lord Justice there; again in
1298, 1302, 1307, and 1309. In 1446, Richard
Wogan, clerk, was the Irish Lord Chancellor. In
1636, died Nicholas Wogan of Blackhall, County of
Kildare, fourth son of David Wogan of New-Hall in
said County. He had married Margaret, daughter of
William Hollywood of Harbertstown in the County
of Meath, by whom he had four sons ; 1. William,
who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Wogan
of Grangerosnolvan, County of Kildare ; 2. Charles ;
3. Edward ; and 4. Thomas, all yet unmarried, says
the Funeral Entry of Nicholas in the Heralds' Office ;
said Nicholas, it adds, died in July, 1636, and was
buried at Kilmaoge in said County. The above Wil-
liam and Thomas were attainted in 1642, as were
Oliver Wogan of Downings and Nicholas Wogan of
Rathcoffy. The latter was one of the Supreme Coun-
cil of Kilkenny in 1646. Besides this officer, who
was killed at the Siege of Deny, a John Wogan ap-
pears on this List as Captain in Fitz-James's Foot.
He was of Rathcoffy, Sheriff of the County of Kildare
in 1687, and one of its Representatives in the Parlia-
ment of Dublin. He was attainted in 1691, with
Patrick Wogan of Maynham in the same County ;
and, according to other Muster Rolls, a John Wogan
was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of Sir Maurice

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Eustace's Infantry, subsequent to the forming of this
List.

The chivalry and devotion of Irishmen to the de-
throned Stuart, as evinced by the gallant daring of
Colonel Charles Wogan in the time of George the
First, are alluded to hereafter ; meanwhile it may here
be remarked that a manuscript compilation of this
Colonel Charles, of a very miscellaneous character, is
in the possession of Mr. Aylmer of Painstown. In it
are an address in poetry from Lord Wharton to
himself, as to ' My friend Sir Charles Wogan,
Baronet,' and a Comment from Dean Swift to him on
particulars of the exile's life which had been furnished
to the Dean. " We guessed you," writes Swift, " to
have been born in this country from some passages,
but not from the style, which we wondered to find so
correct in an exile, a soldier, and a native of Ireland.

Although I have no great regard for your trade,

from the judgment I make of those who profess it in
these kingdoms, yet I cannot but esteem those gentle-
men of Ireland who, with all the disadvantages of
being exiles and strangers, have been able to distin-
guish themselves by their valour and conduct in so
many parts of Europe, I think above all other nations.
Which ought to make the English ashamed at the re-
proaches they cast on the ignorance, the dulness, and
the want of courage of the Irish natives; these
defects, wherever they happen, arising only from the
poverty and slavery they suffer from their inhuman
neighbours, and the base corrupt spirits of too many

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541

of the chief gentry. By such events as these the very
Grecians are grown slavish, ignorant, and supersti-
tious. I do assert, from several experiments I have
made in travelling over both kingdoms, I have found
the poor cottagers here, who could speak our language,
to have a much better taste for good sense, humour,
and raillery, than ever I observed among people of the
like sort in England."

CAPTAIN LORD ENNISKILLEN,

( CONNOR MAC GUIRE).

The Irish county now known as Fermanagh, of which
Enniskillen is the chief town, was anciently the prin-
cipality of the Sept of Mac Guire, who held it for
centuries after the Invasion, independent of English
government ; and were, according to the Irish form,
solemnly inaugurated on the summit of Cuilcaigh
(the Quilka of Dean Swift), and sometimes near Lis-
naskea. In the time of James the First, however,
Ulster, including their territory, fell into the power of
the Crown by the Attainders of O'Neill, O'Donnel,
Mac Guire, &c, and was subjected to the allocations
and disposition of the Plantation. Nevertheless, Con-
nor Roe Mac Guire, the acknowledged Captain of his
name, obtained from King James a re-grant of 12,000
acres of the confiscations of his ancestors, and was
created Baron of Enniskillen, a title which passed in
his descendants to the nobleman here introduced.

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Of the earlier notices of this Sept it may be men-
tioned that when, in 1314, King Edward was about
to prosecute the war in Scotland, he directed an
especial letter missive to ' Laveragh Mac Wyr, duci
Hibernorum,' seeking his aid on the expedition. In
1379, when Edmund Mortimer, who had married the
grand-daughter of Edward the Third, came over to
Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, various native chiefs
waited upon him, and amongst these the Mac Guire.
In 1428, " Hugh, the hospitable son of Philip Mac
Guire, died at Kinsale, on his landing from Spain,
where he had been performing the pilgrimage of St.
James of Compostella. Thomas Oge Mac Guire, who
had accompanied him, conveyed his body to Cork,
where it was buried." The death of this Thomas Oge
is thus commemorated by the Masters : — " In 1480
died Thomas Oge, son of Thomas More, son of Philip,
son of Hugh Poe Mac Guire, the most distinguished
of his time for alms-doing, piety, and hospitality ; a
man who defended his territory against invading foes,
a founder of monasteries and churches, a donor of
chalices, a man who was at Pome, and twice visited
the City of St. James (of Compostella). He was in-
terred in the monastery of Cavan, having selected that
as his burial place."

The influence of the Mac Guire in a later century
is thus spoken of by Sir John Davis, in a report to
the King's Council : — " Concerning Fermanagh, other-
wise Mac Guire's country, that territory was never
reduced to the Crown from the conquest of Ireland,
either by surrender, attainder, or other resumption

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543

whatever, until Sir John Perrot's government ; who
caused Lord Conogher, father of Hugh Mac Guire,
who was a principal actor in the late rebellion, and
slain in Minister, to surrender all the County of
Fermanagh in general words unto the late Queen,
and to take new patents back again of all the County
in like general words to him and his heirs, whereupon
was reserved a rent, &c." On the Plantation of
Ulster, which was much influenced by this representa-
tion of the then Attorney-G-eneral, Bryan Mac Guire
had a grant of various lands in the old district, with
licence for fairs and markets, to hold same for ever, as
of the Castle of Dublin in common soccage, subject to
the conditions of the Plantation. The Act for the
attainders of the Ulster Lords (1612) makes express
mention of Sir Hugh Mac Guire, as having then
lately fallen in the field in rebellion. The Sept, it
may be concluded, suffered yet more severely in the
confiscations of 1642, by reason of the part they had
taken with Lord Mac Guire ; while, beyond their
ancient district, were attainted Murrough and Thomas
Mac Guire of Angestown, County of Meath, and Donogh
Mac Guire of Castlemartin, County of Kildare. Crom-
well's Act of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and
estate ' Connor Mac Guire, Baron of Enniskillen ;'
while, on the other hand, the declaration of Eoyal
gratitude, for services beyond the seas, recognises
those of Ensign Connor Mac Guire, and of Patrick
Mac Guire of Ballykilcunny, ' County of Enniskillen.'
In 1685-6, the Earl of Sunderland wrote by the

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King's order from Whitehall to the Earl of Clarendon,
then the Irish Viceroy, recommending to his Excel-
lency Dr. Dominick Magnire, then Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Armagh, and the other prelates of that
communion in Ireland, " for patronage and protection
upon all occasions.; " and desiring his Excellency to
recommend to the Prelates of the established church,
and to the Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace there,
not to molest the Roman Catholic clergy, in the exer-
cise of their ecclesiastical functions amongst those of
their own communion. The King further directed
the payment of certain sums out of the Irish Exche-
quer to the said Catholic Primate to be partly for
himself, and other parts in trust annuities for certain
other proscribed Roman Catholic Bishops'* The
total sum so allocated for this hierarchy was £2,190
per annum, to be paid to the Primate, ' without any
account impressed or other charges to be set upon him.'

Lord Enniskillen, though here ranked as but a Cap-
tain, was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Fermanagh,
afterwards sat as a Peer in the Parliament of 1689,
and ultimately commanded in this campaign a Regi-
ment which he had himself raised. He fought at
Aughrim, where fell Colonel Art Mac Guire, 'one of
the chief noblemen of Ulster, and a stout warrior.'
Another Infantry Regiment, alluded to hereafter, was
led by Colonel Cuconnaght Mac Guire, the Deputy
Lieutenant of Fermanagh ; while in the Earl of Clan-
carty's Infantry Alexander Mac Guire was a Captain.

* O'Callaghan's Macariae Excidium, p. 308.

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545

The Attainders of 1691 present the names of Lord
Enniskillen, Cuconnaght of Lisnaskea, County of
Fermanagh (of whom hereafter) ; Alexander, also of
Lisnaskea; Thomas of Mnllintoosse, County of Antrim;
James of Ballinecurvin, County of Cork ; and Domi-
nick Mac Gwire, L commonly called Primate of Ire-
land.' After the Capitulation of Limerick, Lord
Enniskillen accompanied the Irish army to France,
hut, having no Eegiment assigned to him there, he
retired to St. Germains, where he died in October,
1708, aged 67. He was succeeded by his brother
Philip, the sixth Lord Enniskillen, as he was styled ;
who by his wife, the daughter of Sir Phelim O'Neill
of Kinard, and sister to Brigadier Gordon O'Neill,
had a son Theophilus, seventh titular Lord Ennis-
killen ; the son of which latter nobleman, by his Lady
Margaret O'Donnell of the Tyrconnel line, was named
Alexander, and accounted eighth Lord Enniskillen.
He was an officer of the Irish Brigades, and, about the
middle of the last century, a Captain in Bulkeley's
Regiment.*

CAPTAIN MANUS O'DONNELL.

The researches of O'Callaghan, in his recent History
of the Irish Brigade, p. 312, &c. are so full and satis
factory, as to leave little necessity for further illustra-
ting the name of O'Donnell here. Only let it be
added that, in 1494, Hugh Oge O'Donnell, 'Prince of

* O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 278, where sec of
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Tyrconnel,' was received with great honour by James
the Fourth of Scotland at Glasgow ;* and Pinkerton,
in his ' Scotland] (vol. 11, p. 59) mentions a corre-
spondence between these individuals as extant. This
O'Donnel went in 1505 on a pilgrimage to Rome,
going and returning through London, where he was
on both occasions entertained with great honour by
King Henry the Seventh ; and in 1511 he received
knighthood at the Justs which Henry the Eighth held
at Westminster, in honour of the birth of a Prince, f
Yet this monarch is shown to have taken much umbrage
at the friendly intercourse so existing between the
O'Donnells and the Scottish Kings. %

In 1529, Roderic O'Donnel was Bishop of Deny.
In three years after, O'Donnel did covenant with Sir
William Skeffington that, if the King wished to reform
Ireland, of which it would seem the Irish chief enter-
tained some doubt, he and his people would gladly be
governed by the laws of England.§ In 1567, Hugh
O'Donnel was knighted by Sir Henry Sydney ; in
the following year he became chief of his Sept, and
was father of Hugh Roe O'Donnel, who was treache-
rously carried off from Donegal in the time of Sir
John Perrot's government, and, to the discredit and
injury of the English interest, was confined in the
Castle of Dublin, whence he twice made his escape.
On the last occasion, he kindled a war in his native

* Comps. Thes. Scotiae.

f Ellis's Letters, 2nd series, vol. 1, p. 224.

§ Davis's Hist. Rel. p. 52.

\ Idem.

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547

territory, which expelled the English from the Castle
of Donegal, and regained his whole country from
them, with such acts of implacable hostility as the re-
collection of his own suffering stimulated. He was in
truth an extraordinary man, of talents, courage, liter-
ary acquirements, and personal attractions that pro-
jected him to the admiration of his age. Betham, in
the first part of his Antiquarian Researches, furnishes
very fully, from an Irish manuscript, his history and
achievements. In 1601, with the flower and strength
of Ulster, he flew to co-operate with the Spaniards in
the siege of Kinsale, but was obliged to give up the
cause by the precipitancy of the Spanish commander.
He thereupon retired with him to Spain, where, says
Leland,* ahe was every where received by that
proud nation with all that pomp and magnificence
which is paid to blood Royal only." He died in
1602, and was buried with great magnificence at
Valladolid. The O'Donnel, who thereupon assumed
the chiefry, joined with O'Neill in the desperate resist-
ance to English rule, that was only terminated by the
flight of both these chiefs to the continent, when the
extinction of their sway left the most valuable part
of Ulster, upwards of 800,000 English acres, at the
disposal of the Crown, which exercised its power in
the memorable Plantation of that Province.

King James, early in his reign, granted to lioderic
O'Donnell, ' brother to the arch-traitor Hugh O'Don-
nell, lately deceased in Spain,' the title and dignity

* Hist. Ireland, vol. 1, Introd. p. 9.

NN 2

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king james's irish army list,

of Earl of Tyrconnei, with remainder to his heirs
male ; and, in defect thereof to his brother Galfred or
Caffry O'Donnell and his heirs male, with the title of
Baron of Donegal to his heir apparent ; making, at
the same time, a more substantial grant to him, on
like entails of the territories or countries in the pre-
cinct of Tyrconnei, in as large and ample manner as his
brother Hugh Euath O'Donnell, attainted, and dead
in Spain, or his father Hugh Mc Manus O'Donnell, or
his grandfather Manus Mc Donnell, or any other of
his ancestors had enjoyed or possessed the same ;
reserving to the Crown all churches, abbeys, tithes,
and certain castles ; also excepting all manors, lands,
and estates which the Earl or any of his ancestors at
any time possessed within O'Doghertie's country, and
reserving also to the Crown the power of erecting
forts on the premises so granted.* The Act of 1612,
for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his
1 accomplices,' included in its desolating penalties the
above Caffry O'Donel, brother to the then late Earl
of Tyrconnel, of Caffersconse, County of Donegal ;
Caffry Oge O'Donel of Starfollis, and Donell Oge
O'Donel, late of Donegal in said County. The Kil-
kenny Assembly of the Confederate Catholics in 1646
was attended by Hugh O'Donell of Eamelton. Of
this Sept was Daniel O'Donnell, who, in December,
1688, was appointed Captain of a Company in the
Royal service, and in 1689 was authorised to rank
and act as a Colonel. After the capitulation of

* Rot. Pat. 1, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib.

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549

Limerick, he passed over to France, where he suc-
ceeded Colonel Nicholas Fitz-Gerald in the command
of F it z- James's Regiment. He also served on the
coast of Normandy with the Irish and French forces,
then designed for the invasion of England ; after-
wards in Germany and Piedmont ; and ultimately he
retired to St. Germains-en-Laye, where he died in
1735, in the seventieth year of his age.*

The achievements of Brigadier Baldearg Euadh
O'Donnell in this campaign are of peculiar interest.
The Irish, placing faith in some ancient prophecy,
wilfully believed that he would be raised to deliver
Ireland from the English yoke. u He was," (writes
Colonel O'Kelly in the Excidium Macarice, pp. 125-6,
&c. ) " heir presumptive to the second Prince of Uls-
ter, that O'Donnell who, at the close of Queen Eliza-
beth's reign, retired into Spain, where he died without
issue. His brother also died there, but leaving one
son, who was carried off by sickness in the flower of
his age ; whereupon Baldearg, being next of kin,
went into Spain, where he was received with honour
by the King, and established in the dignity and
employment theretofore filled by his kinsman. After
serving several years in the Spanish wars against
France, when he heard of the Prince of Orange's
invasion of England, and James's return to Ireland,
he solicited from the Spanish court permission to
quit service there, in order to serve his own King
and country ; but, being unable to obtain his dis-

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charge, by reason that the Irish and their King were
then strictly leagued with Louis the Fourteenth, he
left Spain without any license, and arrived at Kinsale
much about the time that James the Second came
thither after the engagement on the Boyne. [King
James did not, however, come so far south.] The
King recommending him to Tyrconnel, he gave him
the command of the new levies raised by the inhabi-
tants of Ulster, who were then retired into Con-
naught ; but afforded him neither arms nor mainte-
nance ; and, observing soon after that O'Donnel grew
popular among the old Irish, and especially with the
natives of Ulster, who superstitiously believed him to
be the prophesied deliverer of Ireland, he took from
him some of the new legions, whom he incorporated
in the standing army, leaving him and the rest with-
out any manner of subsistence, but what they were
forced to extort from the country. He also encou-
raged the nobles of Ulster, and even the officers of
his own Brigade to oppose him, in order to suppress
his aspiring mind, and render him contemptible to
the people : but his chiefest aim was to breed jealou-
sies between him and Brigadier Gordon O'Neill, who
was descended from the first Prince of Ulster ; for he
apprehended (and perhaps he had reason) that if the
forces of Ulster, all composed of old Irish, were united
together, they might easily obstruct his design to
reduce Ireland under the jurisdiction of William the
Third, in order to preserve there the English interest,
which is held so sacred by those of England, and

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even by some natives of Ireland deriving their ex-
traction thence (whereof Tyrconnel was himself one).
O'Donnel was at that time posted at Jamestown, to
defend the Shannon on that side ; and, when De
Ginkle forced over a passage at Athlone, he had
orders sent to him in all haste to march straight to
Galway ; but, to satisfy Tyrconnel and those of his
party, who loudly declared that to entrust a person,
of his credit among the ancient Irish, with a place of
that consequence, was in effect to abrogate the Royal
authority in Ireland ; the first orders were counter-
manded, and he was bid to dispose of his men into
several posts for the defence of the western parts of
Connaught."

After the fatal clay of Aughrim, Baldearg was
ordered to gather in his scattered force with the
object of strengthening Galway. The enemy, how-
ever, had taken measures to prevent his throwing
succour into that town. Its surrender decided Bal-
dearg's course, and in August, 1691, he arranged
with De Ginkle's agent to go over to the cause of
King William, "provided he might have the men
he brought over with him admitted to pay, in
order to serve his Majesty in Flanders or elsewhere,
and that himself should be created Earl of Tyrconnel,
a title to which he claimed an ancestral right ; he
likewise required that £2,000 should be given to
him.'* "The General," adds Story, "thought it
politic to consent to some of O'Donnel's propositions,

* Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 182.

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kixg james's irisii army list.

and from the following Christmas he and Colonel
Henry Lnttrel received each a yearly pension of
£500. Of his doings in September, 1691, in the
country between Sligo and Boyle, see the Annals of
Boyle, vol. 1. Ultimately, " with about 1200 of his
own men, he joined 800 of the Williamite Ulster
forces, and then joined Lieutenant-General Arthur
Forbes, Earl of Granard, with 5,000 more TTilliamite
militia and a train of artillery from Leinster, that
were commissioned to reduce Sir Teague O'Began in
Sligo."* The Memoir of James the Second speaks
very disparagingly of Baldearg, as that " he had set
up for a sort of independent commander ; and, having
got together no less than eight Regiments newly
raised, with a crowd of loose men over and above, he
lived in a manner at discretion, so that those troops
were in effect but a rabble, that destroyed the country,
ruined the inhabitants, and prevented the regular
forces from drawing that subsistence, they might
otherwise have had from the people, f

At the battle of Aughrim, a Major O'Donnell was
killed, possibly the above Manns, here a Captain.
The Attainders of 1691 present the names of three
O'Donnells in Armagh, and of seven in Donegal,
including this Captain Manus, described as of
Boylagh, County of Donegal. O'Conor in his Mili-
tary Memoirs, mentions another O'Donnel, Conal,
who he says raised a Regiment of Foot for King

* O'Callaglian's Excidium Macariae, p. 14, &c.
f Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 434.

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553

James, which was afterwards brigaded, and was about
1709 incorporated in Lee's and O'Brien's Brigades; in
which year Conal distinguished himself at Mons, as
he did in 1712 at Cambray. Another Conal O'Don-
nell, the grand-nephew of the illustrious Hugh
4 Buadh,' was a Field-Marshal and Generalissimo in
the Austrian Army, and Governor of Transylvania in
the reign of Maria Theresa. He died in 1771.* In
1805, Charles Count O'Donel, a Major-General in the
Austrian service, was killed at Neresheim.f Colonel
d'Abisbal, who distinguished himself in Spain during
the late Peninsular war, wras of this family .$

CAPTAIN ARTHUR MAGILL.

This seems to have been one of the families intro-
duced into Ulster by the Plantation. In 1642, was
attainted John Magill, described in his outlawry as of
Naptown, County of Dublin; he was, however, a con-
siderable landed proprietor in Down, and on the hold-
ing of the Commission respecting the confiscations of
that period, he was adjudged an 'innocent Protestant.'
In 1660, he was Sheriff of that County, and his de-
scendants continued inheritors of Gill-Hall therein
until the time of Queen Anne; and the name is still on
the Roll of Magistrates in three or four Ulster
Counties. It appears from the Proceedings in the
Court at Chichester House in 1700, that the above

* Bctham's Ant. Res p. 191. t Idem. { Idem, p. 192,

554

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Captain was a Leaseholder of the lands of Erginagh,
County of Antrim ; the fee of which, on his attainder,
was claimed by Hugh Colvill. A Bryan Magill also
then forfeited lands in the same County.

ENSIGN CON O'ROURKE.

The earliest Irish Annalists record the high antiquity
of this Sept, giving them the title of Kings of West
Brefny, a territory which, in modern parlance, com-
prised the whole County of Leitrim, with the Barony
of Tullaghagh, County of Cavan, and a portion of that
of Carbury, County of Sligo ; the same authority sets
down some of the race as Kings of Connaught on the
first use of the surname. Tiernan O'Rourke was
King of Brefny and Conmacne at the time of the
English invasion, an event which is popularly attribu-
ted to the seduction of his wife by Dermot Mac Mur-
rough. In 1376, say the Four Masters, " died
Teigue O'Rourke, Lord of Brefny, when Tiernan his
son assumed the Lordship of Brefny. On the occasion
of Sir John Perrot's Conciliation Parliament, "thither
went the chiefs of Gairbhthrian (i. e. the rough
districts) of Connaught, namely O'Rourke, Captain of
West Brefny, i. e. Bryan the son of Bryan, son of
Owen O'Rourke ; &c."* This unfortunate chief,
having hospitably received the crew of some of the
Armada vessels, which were cast on his shores, incur-

* Annals of the Four Masters.

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555

red the jealousy of Queen Elizabeth's government, and
was by the Lord President driven into Scotland,
where he was seized by the government there, de-
livered to Elizabeth, and afterwards executed in Lon-
don as a traitor.*

In 1604, King James granted to Thadeus or Teigue
O'Eourke, " only legitimate son of Sir Bryan
O'Eourke," various Lordships and Manors in
" O'Kourke's territory, County of Leitrim," which had
previously belonged to Sir Bryan O'Eourke, and which
had been by him according to the policy of the day sur-
rendered to Sir John Perrot, with the object of obtain-
ing a re-grant thereof in tail male. King James's
grant is stated to comprise 166 quarters of land, with
castles, manors, advowsons, &c, the patentee to hold
same thenceforth at knight's service when required,
and presenting to the Lord Deputy yearly at Easter,
" a fair chief horse, and a piece of gold with the
words iservie?ido Guberno engraved thereon."f At the
supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646, Hugh
O'Eourke of Cooncrena was one of the Commons.
The Act of Explanation (1665) saved the rights of
this Ensign Con O'Eourke to his estates in the
County of Leitrim. Besides him, Michael Eourke
was an Ensign in Colonel Henry Dillon's Eegiment of
Infantry. The Attainders of 1696 comprise the
names of Brian Fitz-Francis O'Eourke of Galovrea,
Brian Oge O'Eourke of Carnegreve, Terence Mac

* Leland's Ireland, vol. 2, p. 322.
t Pat. Roll in Chancery, temp. Jas. 1.

556

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Brian O'Rourke of Lallagh, Rourke Fitz-Con
O'Rourke, and Thady and John O'Rourke of Dungebb,

all in the County of Leitrim. Several of the

O'Rourkes have been distinguished in the service of
foreign Potentates of Europe; as Count Owen
O'Rourke of the Austrian army in the time of Maria
Theresa ; Count John O'Rourke,* who served as a
Commander in the armies of Russia, Poland and
France, between the years 1760 and 1780 ; and
another Count Owen, who was married to a niece of
Field-Marshal de Lacy.

* See of him, Walkers Hibernian Mag. for 1782, p. 147.

EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY.

557

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

RICHARD, EARL OF TYRONE.

Captains.

The Colonel.

Thomas Nugent.

Lieut.-Col.

Richard Nagle,
Major.

James Magrath.
Edward Butler.

Joseph Comerford.
Valentine Walsh.

James Power.

Francis Cruice.

Lord Castleconnel.
John Byrne.
Lord Cahir.
Piers Walsh.
Dominick Forriter.
Andrew Rice.
Hugh M'Namara.
Edmund Fitzgerald,
Nicholas Stafford.
Joseph ' Neagle.'

Lieutenants.

5 John Power.

I Richard Fitzgerald.

John Power.

James Bryan.
Lewis Bryan.
Thomas Nugent.

Ensigns.
David Power.
Garrett Russell.

Denis Bryan.

Peter Ay 1 ward.

{ Thomas Russell.
I Thady Connor.

{ Theobald Throgmorton ) T ,

{John Winstonf J John Power.

Jenico Preston.

Andrew Rice.
John Madden.
Nicholas Murphy.
Edmund Fitzgerald,
John Ronan.
Michael Murphy.

Thomas Power.
Robert Walsh.

( Thomas Bedford,
l John Walsh.

Thomas Power.
Piers Dobbins.
William Carroll.

Francis Garvan.
Robert Barry.

COLONEL THE EARL OF TYRONE.

An illustration of this native Royal family would de-
mand more space, than in the prescribed limits of this
work can be afforded. Here it must suffice to remark

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king james's irish army list.

that the territory of Tyrone gave to them a title of
tenure, recognized by even the English invaders from
the earliest period. When Edward the First and
Edward the Second invited the aid of the Magnates of
Ireland against Scotland, a Letter Missive was
directed to Donald O'Neill, as 4 Dux Hibernicorum de
Tyrowyn.' In the last year of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, Con O'Neill, the Ulster chief, having an
affray with some of the Queen's soldiers in Belfast, an
Inquest was ordered to be held, in which Con, with
some of his adherents, was found guilty of waging
war against the Queen ; but, before any grant could
be made of his thereby confiscated lands, her
Majesty died ; and, on the accession of James of Scot-
land, Montgomery, Laird of Braidstane, applied to the
King for a grant of half of Con's lands, recommending
that the other half should be given with a free pardon
to Con himself ; in which appropriation Mr. James
Hamilton was subsequently made a participator.
Con was the more induced to accede to this arrange-
ment, and even with thanks, as it was insinuated that,
from the date of the Act attainting the O'Neills and
confiscating their territories (11th of Elizabeth), he
(Con) was but a usurper on the rights of the Crown.
Thus in 1606 commenced the celebrated Plantation of
the O'Neill's Province of Ulster, and such is the
suggestion of its origin as given in the ' Montgomery
Manuscripts,' which are, as might be expected, most
eloquent on the results.

The Act of 1612, for the Attainder of the Earl of

EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY.

559

Tyrone, included with him Hugh his eldest and Henry
his second sons, and Art Oge Mac Cormock O'Neill,
late of Clogher, County of Tyrone. In a Report
made about this time to the Council, as ' of the Irish
then in the King of Spain's service or dominions,' Don
John O'Neill Earl of Tyrone, Colonel of the Irish in
Flanders, is the first name recorded ; and is followed
by Don Hugh O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnel, page to
the Infanta in Flanders ; Don Dermot O'Sullivan,
Earl of Beerhaven ; Don Eugene O'Neill, serving as
Major ; Don Arthur O'Neill, Captain Cormock
O'Neill, Don Thady O'Sullivan, Captain Cormock
O'Donnell, Samuel Mac Donnell, Owen O'Hanlon,
Eobert Davis, Owen Carthy, Don Redmond Bourke,
Baron of Leitrim ; Don Balthazar Bourke, page of
the chamber ; William Bourke ; Maurish, Thomas
and Edward Fitz-Gerald, Gerald Mac Maurish, and
many others.* The Attainders of 1642 comprise but
four minor names of this great family. Of the Con-
federate Catholics at the Supreme Council of Kilkenny
were Henry O'Neill of Kilbeg, Phelim O'Neill of Mor-
ley, and Turlough of Ardgonnel. The latter was bro-
ther to the celebrated Sir Phelim O'Neill, and was in
Cromwell's Act of 1652, together with Hugh Buy
O'Neill and Shane Mac Brian O'Neill, excepted from
pardon for life and estate. In 1687, Sir Bryan
O'Neill, Baronet, was appointed a Justice of the
King's Bench of Ireland ; while, on the Establishment
at the close of this year, Richard, Earl of Tyrone, was
placed for a pension of £300 per ann.

* MSS. in Triii. Coll. Dub. (E. 3, 8.)

560

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Besides the above Colonel, the name appears upon
this Army List commanding or commissioned in seven
other Regiments. In the Parliament of Dublin
(1689) sat Constantine O'Neill, one of the Represent-
atives for the Borough of Armagh ; Colonel Cormuck
O'Neill for the County of Antrim ; Tool O'Neill, of
Dromnavilly, County of Down, for the borough of
Killileagh ; Colonel Gordon O'Neill for the County of
Tyrone ; Colonel Arthur of Bally gawley, for the
borough of Dungannon, and Daniel for that of
Lisburn. This latter individual afterwards accompa-
nied King James to France. He was subsequently
pardoned by King William, and invited by that
Monarch to return and resume the possession of his
Irish estates ; in respect to which Koyal indulgence,
he proceeded as far as Calais on his homeward route,
but there, under severe visitations of sickness from
wounds he had received at the Battle of the Boyne,
he died. King William, when informed of his death,
bestowed £20,000 on his daughter and only child,
as a provision on her marriage with Hugh O'Reilly of
Ballinlough. In 1690, September 28th, the above
Earl of Tyrone was one of the Irish parties, who nego-
tiated the terms for surrendering Cork to Colonel
Churchhill,* afterwards Duke of Marlborough. In
July, 1691, one Captain Bryan O'Neill, with most of
his Company, deserted to King William, and took the
oath of fidelity to him ; "f in reference to which notice
it may be remarked, that there are two Bryans

* Story's Irapar. Hist., pt. 1, p. 142. f Idem, pt. 2, p. 173.

EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 561

Captains in this Army List, in Colonel Cormuck
O'Neill's Infantry, and two Lieutenants in the Earl of
Antrim's. The Inquisitions of 1691 on attainders of
O'Neills exceed one hundred, on foot of which various
claims were made and some allowed at Chichester
House in 1700. The Earl, who commanded this
Eegiment, it is to be remarked, did not sit in King
James's Parliament, and in 1697 (22nd April) he ob-
tained a pardon under the Great Seal, grounded on
his allegations with proof, that after the surrender of
Waterford he had come over to King William, that he
was a Protestant, never outlawed nor indicted, and in
point of fact then Governor of the County and City of
Waterford. O'Conor, in his Military Memoirs of the
Irish, gives sundry notices of the O'Neill Sept and
their achievements in the Brigades, and particularly
mentions (p. 399) that at the battle of Fontenoy in
1745, 'Monsieur O'Neill,' Lieutenant-Colonel of Clare's
Regiment, was killed.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH COMERFORD,

Ortelius's map locates this family in the Barony of
Shelburne, County of Wexford. It extended also into
the adjoining Counties of Kilkenny and Waterford;
in the Corporate History of Waterford, indeed, its
members appear frequently on the Poll of Mayors
from 1432 to the Revolution. In the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth, Garret or Gerald Comerford was one of

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KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

the Councellors appointed by the Lord Deputy, Sir
Charles Blount, to be assistant to the Lord President
of Munster in the discharge of his arduous duties ; his
actings in which trust are repeatedly noticed in the
Pacata Hibernia. He ranked as second Justice of
Munster, and was in 1603 advanced to be the third
Baron of the Irish Exchequer. Pierce Comerford,
described as of Mangin, County of WicMow, is the
only individual of the name who appears on the Poll
of the 1642 Attainders. At the Supreme Council of
the Confederate Catholics (1646, &c), Dr. Patrick
Comerford, the Poman Catholic Bishop of Waterford,
sat as one of the Spiritual Peers, while Edward Comer-
ford of Callan was of the Commons. On this Army
List, besides the above Captain Joseph, there are com-
missioned, in Colonel Thomas Butler's Foot, Michael
Comerford a Lieutenant, and James and Garret
Ensigns ; and in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, John Com-
erford was an Ensign. On the Attainders of 1691
are four, of the County of Kilkenny, with Thomas
Comerford of Enniscorthy. In 1709, John Comer-
ford was a Colonel in the Spanish Brigade ;* and in
1747, Lieutenant Comerford, of Bulkeley's Pegiment,
was wounded at Lauffield.

CAPTAINS VALENTINE AND PEIPS WALSH.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of

* O Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 351.

earl or Tyrone's infantry.

563

Edward the Third. In 1587, the Queen, by letters
under the Privy Seal, commanded that Nicholas
Walsh, who had been Chief Justice of Minister, and
was then Second Justice of the Bench in Dublin,
should be sworn of Her Majesty's Privy Council. He
was subsequently promoted by King James to be
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. A little genea-
logical manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iii.
27), gives some links of the pedigree of the Walshes
of Killencargy, County of Wicklow, and of Kil-
gobbin, Carrickmines, and Shanganagh, County of
Dublin, for many generations. Amongst the 4 En-
glished Irish,' reported in the time of James the
First to be sojourning after the siege of Kinsale
in the King of Spain's dominions, were "William
Walsh, Nicholas 4 Wise,' Captain Thomas Preston,
James Gernon, Walter De la Hoyde, (who served
the ancient Irish in the last war), George De la
Hoyde, Captain Bathe, Thomas Stanyhurst, John
Bathe, &c." In 1599, Sir Nicholas 4 Welch' was one
of the Councillors appointed by the Lord Deputy to
be assistant on the President of Munster, his acts in
which duty are detailed in the Pacata Hibernia. In
1605, Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight, Privy Councillor,
had a grant of {inter alia) estates of Eichard and
Oliver 'Walshe,' in the King's County, both of whom,
as the patent alleges, were 4 slain in rebellion against
Queen Elizabeth.'

There were of Walshes attainted in 1 642, six in the
County of Kildare, five in Wicklow, four in Dublin,

oo 2

564 king james's irish army list.

and one in Meath. At the Kilkenny Assembly in
1646, Thomas Walsh, the Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Dublin, was of the Spiritual Peers, while Michael
and William of Park, County of Wicklow, with
John of Ballybechaine, and John of Wallford, were of
the Commons. An inquisition, taken in 1617, finds
that John Walsh, of the old stock at Shanganagh,
died in 1671, seised in tail-male of Kilturk, 'Connagh,'
Cork, and Little Bray ; that he held same directly
under the King by military service, and that Edward
Walsh is his son and heir. On the subsequent death
of this Edward without issue, these estates passed to
his brother, in whose time by a private Act of the
Irish Parliament (11th Anne, chap. 4) the Cork or
Corkagh parcel was sold for the payment of debts.
Besides the above two Captains in this Regiment,
Robert Walsh was a Lieutenant and John Walsh an
Ensign ; while in Lord Galmoy's Horse, Lewis and
Oliver Walsh were Cornets. In Colonel Cormuck
O'Neill's Infantry, James was an Ensign, and in
Colonel John Grace's, Robert Walsh was a Captain
and Adam Walsh an Ensign. This Robert, described
as 4 of Cloneshy,' was one of the Representatives of
the County of Kilkenny in the Parliament of 1689
at Dublin.

Both Captains Valentine and Peirs were of the Sept
distinguished as 4 Walsh of the Mountains.' The
former was attainted in 1691, described as of PiL
town, County of Waterford, as was Piers of Guning,
County of Kilkenny, with ten others in the latter

EARL OF TYRONE S INFANTRY.

565

County, live in Wexford, two of Wicklow, and two
of Dublin. The only Walsh estate, on which a claim
was made at Chichester House, was that of Robert
Walsh in the County of Kilkenny, whereon Mary his
widow claimed the fee of tithes and glebes found to
be forfeited by him, but which she alleged were hers

under the will of Piers Walsh, her father. Of the

Walshes in foreign Brigades and service see fully
OCallagharHs Brigades, vol. 1, p. 180, &c. In
1745, 12th July, a merchant of Nantes, of the name
of Walsh, is mentioned by Voltaire (Siecle Louis
XIV., vol. 4, p. 58) as the son of an Irishman
attached to the house of Stuart ; adding that he was
the person who furnished Prince Charles-Edward with
a frigate, in which he embarked at the above date
4 for the Crown of Great Britain.' The ' relics' of
Walsh's Regiment, when stationed at Vannes in 1792,
and the names of the respective officers, are given in
the Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian, (v. 2,
pp. 175-6.)

CAPTAIN FRANCIS CRUISE.

Of this Anglo-Norman family, which had, on the con-
quest of England, settled in Cornwall, a branch came
to Ireland with the invaders of Henry the Second's
time, and obtained grants, from the successful ' Strong-
bow' and Prince John, of various estates in the
Counties of Dublin and Meath ; those in the former

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king james's irish army list.

included the glen of the Naul, on the boundary of
each. At its head a member of this family erected
that castle whose ruins faintly testify its former im-
portance, and in which his descendants resided down
to the time of Charles the First. Stephen 'de Crues'
was the individual seised of the Naul in the time of
Richard the First and King John. His lineal descen-
dant, Hugh ' de Crues,' married the heiress of Sir
Henry Tyrrell, to whom the Chief Serjeantcy of
Leinster was granted by Prince John ; and by this
marriage, according to the construction of the law at
that period, Tyrrel's estates, with the serjeantcy,
passed to this Hugh, and his filling such office at the
time is proved by a roll in the Tower of London.
His grandson, Nicholas 4 de Cruys,' had licence to
enfeoff his son Robert in the estates and serjeantcy;
soon after which, Robert dying, King Edward the
Second, in 1320, committed to the Royal Escheator
the custody of his estates, &c, to hold during the
minority of his son Richard. In 1346, Thomas, son
of a Peter de Cruys, was commissioned, with the
Baron of Slane and others, to parley with the disaffect-
ed Irish of Meath, and induce them to allegiance.
Walter de Cruys was about the same time confirmed
by Edward the Third in his seisin of the manor of
Balrothery, which his father had held before him ;
while another branch of the family was then seised of
the manor of Stillorgan, at the south side of the Lif-
fey. By an inquisition taken in 1356, it was found
that the King's Escheator, acting on the aforesaid

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567

authority of 1320, had seised upon sundry lands
which were held by military service of De Cruys's
manor of the Naul ; that liichard, then a minor,
having subsequently attained age acquired same, and
died seised thereof in 1338, leaving John de Cruys his
heir, who died in 1359, similarly seised of the manor
of the Naul, as well as of other lands in Cruisetown
and Altemash, which last he held of the Lady Eliza-
beth de Burgo, as of her manor of Kells. Margaret,
the only child and heiress of this John, had previously
married Simon Cruise, and thus kept the estates, &c.
in the same name and family. That Simon acquired
the serjeantcy also, and acted in discharge of its duties,
is proved by a record of 1376 in the office of the
Chief Eemembrancer, Dublin. In that year a John
Cruys, who appears to have been a son of this Simon,
wras elected a confidential envoy to England, to com-
municate with the government there on the state of
Ireland, and he received £20 as remuneration for his
expenses of travel and sojourn. In 1380, he was
summoned to a Parliament convened to meet at
Baltinglas ; in two years after was appointed one of
the guardians of the Peace for the Counties of Dublin
and Meath ; in 1385, filled the office of Justice in
Eyre, and in the same year had a treasury liberate
for his expenses and services in a military expedition
against the O'Tooles and other 'Irish enemies,' on
which occasion he was badly wounded. In 1386,
the King's Escheator was ordered to give possession
of the manors of Clonmore and Mansneldstown in the

568 king james's irish army list.

County of Louth to (as it would seem) this John and
Matilda his wife. In the following year, he and
John D'Arcy, then Sheriff of Meath, had similar
commission with that which was given to Thomas
de Cruys in 1346.

In 1394, John Cruys was summoned to a great
council, and in 1399, by a writ reciting that, whereas
John Cruys, 'chevaler,' held 160 acres at Thorncastle
(Booterstown near Dublin), the rent of which to the
Crown he was unable to discharge, by reason of the
premises being subject to be burned and laid waste
by adjoining Irish enemies of the mountains ; it was
thereupon directed that he should be exempted from
any such payments during his life. An inquisition
of 1407 finds that this John had died seised, in his
own right and in right of his wife, of the manors of
Merrion, Thorncastle, Killsallaghan, Rathmore, Do-
naghpatrick and Ballgyhen, with portions of those of
Duleek, Dundalk, and Kenlis, of which Thomas, who
was their son and heir, became afterwards possessed ;
while a James Cruys, who married Catherine Plunket,
had livery from the Crown of the inheritance of the
Naul, with the office of Chief Serjeant* It is of record
that, on some untrue suggestions to the Crown, this
office was afterwards conferred on a Walter Goulding,
who and his descendants for four generations usurped
the office, until in the time of Edward the Sixth
(1552) Walter, described as the descendant and heir
of the above James Cruys, proceeded to recover the

* Lynch's Feudal Dignities, pp. 104, &c.

earl of Tyrone's infantry.

569

office before the Lord Deputy and Privy Council,
when, " after the production and examination of divers
and several ancient and authentic writings, deeds,
licences, and inquisitions ; and, after allowing a long
time to the counsel for the Crown, to show any title
in the King, when passing the patent to G-oulding,
it was decreed and adjudged that the said Walter
Cruys's ancestors were all, under the grant from King
John, lineally seised and possessed of said office, and
that said Walter should be immediately restored to
the possession thereof, and enjoy same according to
said grant of King John. In 1610, it was found on
inquisition that Christopher, son and heir of Walter
de Cruys, was seised of the manors of Naul, Grallagh,
and Cruisetown in the Counties of Dublin and Meath,
and also in his demesne as in fee of the Chief Ser-
jeantcy of the County of Dublin, " which office was
granted to his ancestor by the most serene Prince
J ohn, formerly King of England, to be held from him
and his successors by military service ; that said Chris-
topher died in that year (1610), and was succeeded
by his grandson and heir, Christopher Cruise, who
continued seised thereof to the time of the civil war,
when he forfeited on attainder the manor of the
Naul and other lands in the County of Dublin, with
the Castle and 500 acres, which were granted to
Charles, Viscount Fitz-Harding.* With him were
then attainted Walter Cruise of Cruisetown, County of
Meath, and Peter Cruise of the Naul. The lat-

* D' Alton's Hist. County of Dublin, pp. 487 & 494.

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king james's irish army list.

ter was transplanted, on a Connaught debenture, into
that Province, and from him are the western Cruises
principally descended. Their previous existence, how-
ever, in Clare is shown by an annal of the Four Mas-
ters at 1584, where is stated that, when Sir John
Perrot was on his memorable circuit, to persuade or
compel the gentry of that devoted Province to com-
pound for titles to their estates, "he was waited upon
at Quin Abbey (in Clare), where he stopped, by

Cruise, then Sheriff of the County." In five

years after the same annalists record an engagement
between the Burkes and the people of Inchiquin, in
which " Thomas, the son of Christopher Cruise, was
slain.'1 In 1646, Walter Cruise of Arlonan was one
of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny. In 1668, a
confirmatory grant of lands in the County of Louth
to Mary and John Fowke contained a saving of the
right of a Christopher Cruise to a mortgage thereon.

The Attainders of 1691 broke the fortunes of many
of the name, and in particular of Patrick Cruise of
Taberath, County of Meath, and Patrick Cruise of
Dublin, M.D.; from whom, as well as from the above-
mentioned Walter of Cruisetown, are descended the
Cruises of Eahood, Belgart, Drynam, &c, in short all
the Cruises of Leinster, as well as some in Minister.
Drynam had been the estate of the Kussells, but, by
the marriage of Andrew Cruise of the old Naul line
with Bridget, the daughter and heiress of Bartholo-
mew Eussell, in 1771, ante p. 436. William Eobert
Russell Cruise, the great grandson of that marriage,
now represents those two lines.

EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY.

571

CAPTAIN DOMINICK FERRITER..

This family is of Irish record from the time of
Edward the Third. " It was," writes the Reverend
Mr. Eowan to the compiler of these papers, " a family
established at Dingle in the County of Kerry, and
conspicuous in the troubles of 1641, &c, when a
member, Piers Ferriter, was taken prisoner and exe-
cuted by Cromwell's commander, Brigadier Neilson,
at Kilkenny." Besides this officer, Edmund Ferriter
stands upon the Army List a Captain in Colonel
Nicholas Browne's Infantry ; neither name, however,
appears on the subsequent Attainders, but only those
of Maurice Ferriter of Ballynalug, and Peter Ferriter
of Bally oughter in the County of Kerry.

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS STAFFORD.

This name is of record in Ireland from the earliest
period after the English Invasion. Within the scope
of the present Illustrations, it is only allowable to
mention that in 1599 Francis Stafford was one of the
Counsellors appointed to be assistant to the Lord
President of Munster, in conducting the government
of that disturbed Province ; while a Captain William
Stafford, with one hundred Infantry, and a Lieutenant
Thomas, were distinguished there in that service, as
shown in the 'Pacata Hibernia.' In 1600, Dr.
Nicholas Stafford was appointed by the Queen, Bishop

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of Ferns, in the enjoyment of which See he died
in 1604. In 1606, King James the First granted
to William Barker the wardship and marriage of
Xicholas Stafford, son and heir of Bichard Stafford of
Ballinakaherne, County of Wexford, deceased ; for a
fine of £17 16s. 8d. and an annual rent to the same
amount, with the usual allowance for his maintenance
and education in Trinity College.* A manuscript
book of obits in that College supplies links of the
pedigree and descendants of this Nicholas for four
generations. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in
1646, Richard Fitz-Eichard Stafford (evidently of the
Ballinakaherne line) was one of the attending Con-
federate Catholics. Of Dean Alexius Stafford, a
secular priest of this County, who celebrated mass in
Christ Church daily during King James's sojourn in
Dublin, mention has been made before (ante p. 415).
He was one of the Eepresentatives of the Borough of
Bannow in the Parliament of 1689, as was the above
Captain Nicholas Stafford of that of Fethard in Wex-
ford. After James's flight to France, Stafford,

Esq. was one of his Court at St, Grermains. The
Attainders of 1691 include this Nicholas, described as
of Fethard and Kilcoran, County of Wexford, with six
others of the name.

LIEUTENANT JOHN WINSTON.
He is described, in the inquisition on his attainder,
* Patent Roll, 3 James I. in Cane. Hib.

EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY.

573

as 'of Ballycashin, County of Waterford, and his name
does appear a corruption from Wynchedon or de
Wynchedown. Richard de Wyncedoun is on Irish
records of the time of Edward the Second. In 1345,
John Wynchedon was one of three leading men
assigned to treat on peace with Mc Dermot and his
men, and to reclaim them to friendship ;* the name
was then also established in Cork. In 1377, Richard
Wynchedon was farmer of the Royal lands in that
County, f He was afterwards one of the Justices in
Eyre in Munster, while John Wynchedon was ap-
pointed to several offices of trust in the same province,
and was also one of the Justices in Eyre there in 1407.

LIEUTENANT JOHN 'RONAN.'

The O'Ronans or Ronaynes were a Sept long settled
in Munster and parts of Leinster. At the time of
the English Invasion, two of the name presided over
Irish Bishoprics ; Kinacl O'Ronan over Glendaloch,
and Mel-Brendan O'Ronan over Kerry (i. e. Ardfert),
The Attainders of 1642 present only the name of
Owen O'Ronayne of Ballybeg, County of Kildare ;
while in 1646, Francis O'Ronayne of Kilkenny was
one of the Confederate Catholics there assembled.
The Attainders of 1691 include the above Lieutenant,
described as of Hilltown, County of Waterford, with

* Rot. Pat. 19 & 20, Edw. 3, in Cane. Hib.
t Rot. Claus. 51, Edw. 3 in Cane. Hib.

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nine other Eonanynes. At the Court of Claims in
1700, William Eonayne claimed and was allowed the
fee of Youghal and County of Cork estates, which had
been forfeited by James Eonayne of Eonayne's Court;
and at same time were allowed claims of Hamilton
Montgomery and Grace, otherwise Eonayne, his wife,
and those of Anstace, Elizabeth, and Margaret Eonayne,
minors, by their guardians, as charged on said estates.
James Eonayne also forfeited plots and tenements
in Kinsale. In certain forfeitures of Nicholas of
Youghal, Amos Strettell and Edward Webb, on behalf
of themselves and all the Quakers of Ireland, claimed
a remainder for years.

ENSIGN PETEE AYLWAED.

This family name is recorded on the Irish Rolls from
the time of Edward the Second ; and is located on
Ortelius's map in the Barony of Upper-third, County
of Waterford. In 1566 and 1577, Peter Aylward
was Mayor of Waterford, as was Nicholas Aylward in
1592, Sir Peter Aylward in 1627, and John Aylward
in 1650. In 1602, the Lord Deputy, on his return
from Munster, after the successful termination of the
war in that Province, calling at Waterford, knighted
there Eichard Aylward and Edward Gough, " two
ancient and well deserving citizens."* A confirma-
tory patent of 1666 to Francis Jones affected to con-

* Pacata Hibernia, p. 503.

EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY.

575

vey to him certain lands in Wexford, the estate of
Richard Ay 1 ward ; but for which he, Aylward, had
three years previously obtained a decree of innocence.
The patent therefore saved his right, but left him to
his remedy in law. The attainder of the above officer
describes him as ' Pierse' Aylward of Aylwardstown,
County of Kilkenny, and of Faithlegg, County of
Waterford.

ENSIGN FEANCIS GAEVAN.

According to ancient Irish genealogists, the ' O'Gar-
veys' (for to this Sept the present officer, it is consi-
dered, belonged) were a very ancient family located in
that territory of ' Craobh Ruadh] ' the red branch,'
which the early native poetry, and even the modern
Arch-poet of Ireland have so celebrated. It comprised
much of the present Counties of Armagh and Down,
and its principal chiefs were, with the O'Garveys, the
O'Dunlevy, O'Egan, O'Lynch, O'Moran, O'Hanvey, &c. ;
while O'Heerin, in his Topography, locates a branch of
this family in the Barony of Ballaghkeen, County of
Wexford. In 1589, Dr. John Garvey was, by Queen
Elizabeth, promoted from the See of Kilmore to the
Primacy of Armagh. The Attainders of 1642 name
six Garveys; those of 1691 present five.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL RICHARD NUGENT.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

Richard Nugent,

Colonel.

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Major.
Fergus Farrell.
Patrick Missett.
George Dowdall.
Matthew Nugent.

CAPTAIN PATRICK MISSETT.

The Inquisitions of 169.1 describe him as of Plucks-
town, County of Meath, with his relative James Mis-
sett of the same locality ; they also name Bartholomew
of Naas, and Robert of Robertstown, County of
Kildare ; the former a Lieutenant, and the latter an
Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's Regiment of
Infantry. Of these Kildare Missetts the Attainders
of 1642 record three, viz., James and Laurence
Missett of Castlemartin, and George of Kilcullen-
Bridge, in that County.

LORD GORMANSTON'S INFANTRY.

577

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

JENICO PRESTON, LORD VISCOUNT GORMANSTON.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

Jenico Preston, __

Colonel.

[Richard Eustace,] __

Lieutenant- Colonel.

Major.

Oliver Fitzgerald. Gerald Fitzgerald. Thomas Fitzgerald.

COLONEL JENICO PRESTON, LORD
GORMANSTON.

This name is found on Irish record from the time of
Edward the Second. In 1342, Robert de Preston
was appointed one of the Justices of the Common
Pleas in Ireland, and in 1358 was advanced to be
Chief of that Court. In the previous year, it was
" agreed and granted by the Lord Justice, Chancellor
and Privy Council at Dublin, that Robert de Preston
(his son), then the King's Sergeant (1357), should, for
the King's benefit and profit, accompany the Lord
Justice towards the parts of Leinster and Munster, to
plead and defend the pleas of the Crown, and should
receive four shillings per day wages, for himself and
a man and horse at arms." This individual was
knighted in 1361 by Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

obtained a grant in fee of the manor of Gormanston.
He was likewise Lord of Preston in Lancashire, and
filled the office of High Chancellor of Ireland. His
great grandson, another Sir Robert Preston, was con-
stituted Lord Deputy there in 1478, and in the same
year was elevated to the Peerage by the title of
Viscount Gormanston. His son, Sir William Preston,
the second Viscount, was Lord Justice of Ireland in
1515. On the breaking out of the civil war of
1641, Nicholas, then the Viscount Gormanston, caused
the resident Noblemen and Gentry of the County of
Meath to assemble on the Hill of Crofty, near
Gormanston. The Lords Fingal, Slane, Louth,
Dimsany, Trimleston and Netterville, with upwards of
1,000 of the leading gentry, responded to his invita-
tion ; and here, according to a preconcerted arrange-
ment, they were met by Roger Moore and the other
leaders of the movement, attended by a detachment of
their forces.* He was accordingly in the following
year attainted, with Robert Preston also described as

of Gormanston, Preston of Rogerstown, County

of Meath, James of Grangemore, and Richard of Kil-
kelan, County of Kildare. The Assembly of the Con-
federate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646 was attended
by three members of this House, Thomas, James,
and Robert Preston of Gormanston. The former,
styled Colonel Thomas, was, by Cromwell's Act of
1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate,
together with Nicholas, Viscount Gormanston.

* D' Alton's History of Drogheda, v. 2, p. 457.

LORD GORMANSTON'S INFANTRY.

579

In February, 1685-6, Lords Gormanston and
Ikerrin, on behalf of themselves and several other
Lords and Gentlemen, petitioned for reversals of their
fathers' outlawries imposed on account of the late
civil war. "Several of the petitioners," wrote the
Earl of Clarendon to the Earl of Sunderland, " have
served the King very well since, and, by the late
King's favor, have been advanced to hope titles and be
restored to their estates ; and certainly they (as many
as are alive at least) ought to be restored in blood as
well as to their estates. The children of many of
them are in his Majesty's service, and therefore may
deserve to partake so much farther of his Majesty's
favor ; but the best way of doing it will be the ques-
tion, for it is a case of greater consequence than may
at first appear." * The King subsequently assented
to Lords Gormanston and Ikerrin bringing writs of
error to reverse their fathers' outlawries, and directed
that the cases of others should be considered at
Council,f while Lord Gormanston was himself at the
same time made a Privy Councillor. When, however,
the intentions of making such applications transpired,
caveats were immediately entered against granting
any such writs of reversal ; the opposition naturally
arising from the persons who, under the Acts of Settle-
ment, were in actual and for some time recognised
possession of lauds, the ancient property of those
Lords, &c.J In November, 1688, previous to King

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 267.
t Idem, p. 399. \ Idem, p. 487.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

James's abdication, a Lord Preston was his Secretary
of State ; and in the January following, after that
Monarch's flight, this Nobleman received a letter from
him, which led to subsequent suspicions of his being
engaged with Lord Clarendon and others in a conspi-
racy for a counter-revolution in favour of James, for
which he was afterwards arraigned, tried, and
condemned.*

The noble Colonel of this Eegiment sat in the Par-
liament of Dublin, while another Jenico Preston was
a Lieutenant in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry.
When King James meditated advancing towards
Dundalk, soon after his arrival in Dublin, " a brigade
of Guards, consisting of two battalions, together with
Gormanston's and Creagh's Regiments, each of which
made a good battalion, came to the camp about the
Bridge of Affane by eleven o'clock at night, and the
rest next morning, before noon.f This Regiment,
which was here so incomplete, is reported as compris-
ing, after the battle of the Boyne, thirteen companies,
a total of 650 men. J In 1691, this Lord was
attainted on five Inquisitions. At the Court of
Claims in 1700, Anthony Preston, ' called Lord
Viscount Gormanston,' and Mary his wife, claimed
and were allowed the benefit of a trust term for 500
years, created to secure a charge of £3,000 for said

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, pp. 211,
251, 319, n. and 331.

| Clarke's Mem. of James II., v. 2, p. 379.
\ Singer's Correspondence, v. 2, p. 514.

LORD GORMANSTON'S INFANTRY.

581

Mary, and a remainder in tail for Anthony, off Lord
Gormanston's forfeited estates. A Nicholas Preston
also claimed and was allowed a remainder for his life,
as was Captain Robert Preston a remainder in tail,
expectant upon several other remainders in being, as
attaching to said estates : while James Butler, Esq.,
and Margaret, Lady Viscountess Gormanston, his
wife, claimed in her right an annuity of £500 per
annum, with an arrear of £3,400 as due thereoff.

[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL RICHARD
EUSTACE].

This officer does not appear on the present Army List,
the appointment having been made subsequent to its
issue. The name is here inserted from Dr. King's
Appendix. He was of Barretstown in the County of
Dublin.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL HENRY DILLON.

Captains.

The Colonel.
Walter Burke,

Lieutenant-Colonel.
John Morgan,

Major.
Luke Dillon.
Theobald Dillon.
Thomas Daly.
Edward Fitzgerald.
Hugh O'Donnell.
Edmund Reynolds.
William Bourke.
Lucas Powell.
Thomas Dillon.
James Lally.
Patrick M'Gawley.

Robert Dillon.

Christopher Dillon.

George Browne.

Walter Blake.

William Brabazon.

Hugh M'Dermott.

John D'Alton.

Terence M'Donough.

John Dillon.

Robert Fitzgerald.

John D'Alton.

Lieutenants.

Hubert Dillon.
Paul Rutledge.

Francis Martin.
Bryan O'Connor.
Peter Daly.
Murrough Melaghlin.
Terence Sweeny.
Morgan Reynolds.
Patrick Bourke.
Alexander Plunket.
Thomas Dillon.
Gerald Lally.
Edmund Tyrrell.
Christopher Dillon.
Bartholomew Dillon.
Thady Naughton.
Valentine Blake.
Gilbert Talbot.
Richard Fitzgerald.
Luke Sheill.
Thady M'Donough.
Miles Bourk.
Robert Fox.
Richard D'Alton.

Ensigns.

Edmund Dillon.
Thomas Dolphin

Bryan M'Dermott.
Thomas Dillon.
John Molloy.
Redmond Fitzgerald.
Michael Rourke.
Ferdinando Reynolds.
Edmond Daly.
Edmund Dowell.
Christopher Dillon.
Thomas Costello.
Philip M'Gawley.
Pbelim Hart.
Hubert Farrell.
Rowland ' Bourk.'
Nicholas Lynch.
Miles Laughlin.
Michael M'Dermott.
Andrew D'Alton.
Cornelius M'Donough.
Richard Dillon.
Philip Fox.
John D'Alton.

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY.

583

COLONEL HENRY DILLON.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Invasion, immediately after which Sir Henry
Dillon, styled of Drnmrany, had from King John large
grants over that portion of Western Meath and
Annaly, which was thence called the Dillon's Conn-
try. His descendants were Barons of Kilkenny West,
and subsequently ennobled as Earls of Eoscommon,
Viscounts Dillon and Mayo, and Barons of Clonbrock.
In the sixteenth century the name of Dillon is con-
spicuous on the Roll of the Judicial Officers of Ireland.
In 1532, Sir Bartholomew Dillon was appointed Chief
Justice of the King's Bench. In 1554, Robert Dillon,
of Newtown near Trim was named a Justice of the
Queen's Bench, and advanced in 1559 to the Chief
Justiceship of the Common Pleas. In 1560, Richard
Dillon of Proutestown, County of Meath, became a
Justice of the Queen's Bench. In 1570, Sir Lucas
Dillon was Chief Baron of the Exchequer. In 1581,
Robert Dillon, of Riverston, County of Westmeath, was
second Justice of the Common Pleas. In 1590, Gerald
Dillon was a Justice of the Queen's Bench. In two
years after, Thomas Dillon, theretofore Chief Justice
of Connaught, was appointed a Justice of the Common
Pleas ; and in 1638, Robert Lord Dillon was one of
the Keepers of the Great Seal.

From the above Sir Henry Dillon of Drumrany
sprang Sir Theobald, the founder of the noble house of
Costello-Gallen, and who was ennobled in 1621-2 by

584

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

the title of Viscount thereof. His successor, Lucas,
the second Viscount, married in 1625 the Lady Mary,
daughter of the Earl of Antrim, by whom he left issue
an only son, Viscount Lucas, who died in 1629 ; when,
as a manuscript obit in the Trinity College MSS.
records, his remains were conveyed in a coach from
Kilnefaghny, where he died, to Athlone, in whose
abbey he was buried. His only son, the third Vis-
count, died an infant, when the title reverted to his
uncle Thomas, the fourth Viscount, who was attainted
in 1642, and driven with his four sons into exile on
the continent ; whence, however, he returned on the
Restoration, and was restored to his extensive estates
in the Counties of Mayo, Roscommon, and Westmeath.
He was, however, attainted in 1642, with nine others
of his name. Of the Confederate Catholics assembled
at Kilkenny in 1646, &c, were Edmund and John
Dillon of Streamstown, James of Clonegassel, and
Lucas of Lough-Glyn. Those excepted from pardon
for life and estate by Cromwell's Act of Denunciation
were James Dillon of Roscommon, and James Dillon,
brother to the Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen.
Theobald Dillon succeeded in 1682 to this title as the
seventh Viscount ; and he appears on this Army List
(as before) the Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Clan-
ricarde's Infantry. He raised two Regiments for
King James's service ; one, — that under present con-
sideration,— commanded by the above Colonel Henry
Dillon, his eldest son and successor in the title, one of
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COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 585

Parliament of 1689, and afterwards Governor of
Galway. The second Eegiment so raised by Viscount
Theobald was put under the command of his second
son, the Honorable Arthur Dillon, and was that after-
wards assigned to form part of Mountcashel's Brigade.

In 1686, Dillon, Lord Eoscommon, together with
Tyrconnel, the Lords Limerick and Gormanston,
Justin Mac Cartie, Richard Hamilton, Nicholas Pur-
cel, and others, signed a proclamation of amnesty, as
emanating from the Council Chamber ; whereby it
was declared " that none of his Majesty's subjects of
this Kingdom shall at any time hereafter be sued,
vexed, or disquieted, either by indictment, information
or otherwise, in his Majesty's name or at his suit, for
or by reason of any treasonable, seditious, or other
words whatsoever spoken or that may be pretended
to have been spoken by any of them, before the de-
cease of his late Majesty and his now Majesty's
accession to the crown."* [This Lord Eoscommon,
however, it is to be remarked, was, at his own request,
presented in December, 1688, by the Earl of Claren-
don to the Prince of Orange at the Prince of Den-

mark's.f] In December, 1686, Lord Clarendon

wrote to the Earl of Sunderland, in reference to fill-
ing a vacancy on the Irish Bench, and those com-
petent to fill it : — " There are Mr. Garret Dillon, Mr.
Nangle, and Mr. Browne ; these three are Roman
Catholics. Mr. Nangle I know has no mind to be a
Judge, nor I believe will Mr. Dillon, he being in very

* Singers Corresp. vol. 1, p. 519. | Idem, v. 2, p. 237.

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great practice ; he is a very honest gentleman, and it
is not fit for me to omit the best men."* This latter
was raised to a Serjeantcy at the close of the ensuing
year. On the establishment of 1687-8, Colonel Cary
Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, was put upon the Pension
List for £200 per annum. He sat in the Parliament
of 1689, together with Theobald, Viscount Dillon, of
Costello-G-allen : while of the Commons were John
Dillon, one of the Representatives of the Borough of
Roscommon ; this Honorable Colonel Heniy, one for
those of Westmeath; and the aforesaid Prime-Serjeant
Gerald for the Borough of Mullingar. It may be
here mentioned that the above Theobald, Viscount
Dillon, married Mary, a daughter of Sir Henry Tal-
bot of Templeogue, County of Dublin, and was after-
wards attainted; but the outlawry was reversed in
favour of his son and successor, Henry, the eighth Vis-
count. Theobald's second son, Arthur, entered the
military service in France as hereinafter noticed.

The above named Prime-Serjeant Dillon was

seised in fee of divers estates in the Counties of Mayo
and Roscommon, which he devised in 1690 to Theo-
bald, his then only son, in tail-male, with remainders ;
but he was himself attainted. He followed King
James to France, and there had two other sons, James
and Claude, who both died there, intestate and un-
married. Theobald, the eldest son, however, survived
his father, continuing to be a Catholic until his death.
In 1720, he married Mary, eldest daughter of Richard

* Singer's Corresp. v. 2, p. 122.

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY.

587

Malone, by whom he had Nicholas, his only son, and
three daughters. Theobald lived to 1763, his son
Nicholas being then with him in France, but he, on his
fathers death, which occurred in that year, came
over and conformed ; in four years after which he
died intestate, unmarried, and without issue.*

Besides the fifteen Dillons in this Regiment, Gerald
Dillon was a Captain in Lord Abercorn's Horse, Lord
Dillon was Lieutenant-Colonel in the Earl of Clan-
ricarde's Infantry, and, in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's,
Charles Dillon was an Ensign. In July, 1691, after
the battle of Aughrim, Lord Dillon was Governor of
Galway. On the 26th of that month he capitulated,
"marching out," says Story, "with the Irish garrison,
having not above 2,300 men, and those but indiffer-
ently armed and worse clothed." It may be added
that a Major Dillon was one of the hostages given by
the Governor for the due performance of the Articles
on the Irish side.f On the 9th of September follow-
ing, Lough-Glyn Castle, commanded by Colonel Theo-
bald Dillon, surrendered to the summons of King
William's party. In the memorable month of October
following, Colonel Garret Dillon, the Prime- Serjeant,
was one of the executing parties to the civil Articles
of Limerick. The Attainders of 1691 record the
names of Henry, Lucas, and Christopher Dillon of
Killenfaghny ; Gerald and Theobald Dillon of Port-
lick ; John Dillon of Roscommon ; Arthur, Christopher,
and James Dillon of Lough-Glyn; James Dillon of

* Pleadings in Chancery. t Hardiman's Galway, p. 1G2.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Lissian ; with fifty-nine other Inquisitions taken on
the name. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Red-
mund Dillon, a minor, claimed and was allowed a
remainder in tail, after the decease of Margery Dillon,
in various lands in the Baronies of Kilkenny West
and Eathconrath, forfeited by Pierce Dillon ; while
said Margery claimed her jointure thereoff. Ed-
mund Dillon was allowed a reversion in fee in Mayo
lands, forfeited by Christopher Dillon ; off which
Margaret Dillon, his widow, sought and was allowed
her dower ; while Richard Bourk and Mary Bourk,
alias Dillon, also obtained a certain amount of jointure

off the same property. Garret Dillon was allowed

a mortgage on Peter Dillon's forfeited lands of Gran-

aghan, &c. Mary, Catherine, and Elizabeth Dillon,

minors, claimed by their guardian and were allowed
portions of £150 each, off lands in the Counties of
Dublin and Meath, forfeited by Martin Dillon. Robert
Dillon, also a minor, was allowed a remainder in
special tail therein : while Matthew Dillon, in full

age, sought and obtained a similar remainder.

Gerald Dillon was allowed a fee in Portlick, &c.

County of Westmeath. Henry Lord Dillon claimed

the fee of lands of the County of Roscommon, as pur-
chased for his benefit by John Dillon, the forfeiting
proprietor, his trustee ; he also claimed an annuity, a
chiefry, a term for years, and an estate tail in several
estates in Mayo, Galway, and Westmeath, forfeited by
Gerald Dillon, all which claims were allowed ; as was

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 589

the claim of a Thomas Dillon to a trust estate in fee,
held by said attainted Gerald for his benefit.

Arthur Dillon, before mentioned as the second son
of Theobald, the seventh Viscount Dillon, passed into
France with a Regiment raised by that nobleman, and
consisting of two battalions of 1,600 men and two
companies. It formed part of Mountcashel's Brigade;
its Colonel at the time of his landing being only
twenty years of age ; he immediately, however, rose to
high rank. In 1691, his Regiment was distinguished
at Urgel. In 1694, a battalion of his served in Spain,
in Catalonia under Marshal Noailles ; and at the
siege of Rosas, Dillon's Grenadiers carried the counter-
scarp in three days, after which the place surrendered.
In 1696, his Regiment continued to serve in Spain
under the Duke de Vendome, and it is recorded that
at the little village of Colfilla, two hundred of his
Regiment drove back 4,000 Spaniards in two well
contested assaults. In 1697, at the siege of
Barcelona, his Regiment dislodged the Spaniards from
the neighbouring hills, whence they had been enabled
occasionally to throw succours into the place, and to
incommode the besiegers. This successful achieve-
ment led to the immediate capture of the City, and
the termination of the war by the Treaty of Ryswick.*
Dillon's Regiment participated with those of Galmoy,
Berwick, and Burke in the campaigns of 1701, 1702,
and 1703. In the latter year, in the Tyrol, Dillon
and his Irish forces were ordered to clear the moun-

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. v. 1, p. 230, &c.

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tains on the northern side of the lake of Garda.
" The passages were closed with entrenchments con-
structed by Austrian engineers, and guarded by the
peasants and regular militia. On viewing them, they
were found impregnable in front, while in the rere
steep precipices lifted their summits to the clouds,
accessible only to the wild animals of the Alps.
There the eagle built his nest, the chamois bounded
from cliff to cliff, and the bouquelin gambolled in the
wantonness of his freedom ; but man had never been
seen on these summits. The Irish scaled them, and,
appearing in the rere of the entrenchments, so terri-
fied the armed peasantry and the few regular troops
who were with them, that after a few discharges they
abandoned their position with the utmost precipitation.
Dillon caused several fires to blaze on the summit of
the mountain, in order to magnify his detachment into a
large body in the eyes of the garrison and inhabitants
of Eiva; whereupon the citizens, apprehensive of the
horrors of the city being taken by storm, shut their
gates and sent a deputation to Dillon with the keys.
He entered in triumph, and his detachment was
regaled with refreshments, and possessed themselves
of several pieces of cannon and considerable ammu-
nition."* Dillon's was not less distinguished in 1704
in Piedmont and Savoy. In the following year he
was made a Field- Marshal, was appointed Governor of
Toulon, signalized himself in Lombardy, was constitu-
ted Knight of the Holy Ghost, and raised to the rank

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. v. 1, p. 278, &c.

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591

of Lieutenant-General. In the early part of 1707, he
served in Dauphine. He married Christiana, the
niece (it would seem) of Lieutenant-Colonel Dominick
Sheldon, before alluded to, ante, p. 68, by whom he
had five sons, the eldest born in 1701. The third,
James, a Knight of Malta, succeeded to the command
of this Brigade, and fell at its head at Fontenoy; when,
in consideration of his services, and those of his next
brother, Edward, who succeeded him in the command,
the King of France was induced to declare that the
Colonelcy of that Brigade should not be conferred on
any person, who did not bear the name of Dillon and
was recommended by the family in whom it origi-
nated. The fullest particulars of this Brigade will be
found in O CallagliaiH s Brigades (vol. 1, p. 101, &c).

At the battle of Ypres in 1745, the Colonel of
Dillon's Regiment, the Lieutenant-Colonel, and two
Captains were killed, while four Captains and five
Lieutenants were wounded. In 1747, at the battle
of Lauflield, Colonel Dillon, ' nom celebre clans les
troupes Irlanclaises]* distinguished himself yet more;
his Eegiment lost there three Captains and four Lieu-
tenants, while four Captains and one Lieutenant were
wounded. [The Muster Roll of Dillon's Regiment at
Lisle in 1794, and the last gathering, after it was dis-
banded, of those who remained in France at Arras,
are, with some interesting and it would seem authen-
tic particulars, given in the Reminiscences of an Emi-
grant Milesian, v. 2, p. 175].

* Voltaire, Siecle Louis XIV., v. 4, p. 102.

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CAPTAIN EDWARD REYNOLDS.

The family of Reynolds is anglicised from Mac Ranall,
a Sept who held the territory of Monter-Iolis,
comprising the southern part of the County of
Leitrim, with the northern part of Longford, including
within its ambit the Castles of Rinn, Lough-Scur, and
Leitrim, and the religious houses of Fenagh, Lough-
Scur, and Leitrim. The native annals record their
too frequent feuds with the O'Ruarcs, the rival tanists
of Brefhey. In 1535, Mac Ranall, Archdeacon of
Kells, was deputed by the unfortunate Lord Thomas
Fitzgerald (the Silken Lord), to solicit aid in his
insurrection, from the Pope and the Emperor Charles
the Fifth. * In the seventeenth century, Anne Ware,
a younger sister of Sir James Ware, the justly vene-
rated antiquarian, was married to Humphrey Reynolds
of Lough-Scur. In 1642, Reynolds of New-
castle, County of Dublin, was attainted; and in 1646,
Charles Reynolds, described as ' of Jamestown,' sat
amongst the Confederate Catholics in Kilkenny. In
the latter year O'Ruarc, " Chief of Brefny, with his
Sept, Bernard Mac Ranall, Captain of his Sept, Conrad
Mac Ranall and Cornelius Mac Ranall, with their ad-
herents, repudiated the political settlement then pro-
posed, commonly called 'the Peace of Ormonde.' "f
The Act of Explanation (1665) contained a proviso
for restoring James Reynolds of Lough-Scur to all his

* Clarke's James II., v. 1, p. 176.
f De Burgo, Hib. Dom. p. 879.

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lands, and, in some ensuing confirmatory patents of
1679, there are savings of his rights in the County of
Roscommon, as also of those of Humphrey Reynolds.
The above Captain Edward Reynolds was one of the
Representatives of the County of Leitrim in the Par-
liament of 1689 ; and, besides him, there appear in
commission upon the present Army List in this Regi-
ment Morgan Reynolds a Lieutenant, and Ferdinando
an Ensign ; while in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's Infantry
Turlough Reynolds was an Ensign. Those attainted
of the name in 1691 were, with the above Edward,
(styled of Leitrim) John Reynolds of Blundelstown,
County of Dublin, Charles of Dublin, Fardagh of
Castlefore, Loughlin and Bruin of Lisnagann, Connor
and Thady of Ballinaboy (all in the County of
Leitrim). On Edward's attainder, a portion of the
ancient estate of Rathmore was considered confiscated
as his, but at Chichester House the fee thereof was
claimed by and allowed to Bridget Reynolds, alias
Long, ' his widow,' she deriving title by descent from
her father, Patrick, and through her brother, Christo-
pher Long.

CAPTAIN LUCAS POWELL.

The Powells are of Welsh extraction the most
respectable, descended from Howell ap Rhys of
Pinkelly in Caermarthenshire. In 1641, a William
Powell claimed title to the Vicarage of Laraghbryan,

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against Lady Talbot ; it was, however, adjudged to her
by an order of the Irish House of Commons.
Amongst the Eoyalists who were in 1652 tried by
court-martial in St. Patrick's Church, was a Thomas
Powell. In 1688, Sir John Powell was a Puisne
Judge of the Irish King's Bench, and in the following
year was transferred to the Common Pleas.* At the
battle of the Boyne, a Lieutenant Powell, ' of the
Guards,' was killed, f The Attainders of 1691 have
of this name only Edward Powell of Kathcormac,
County of Cork.

CAPTAIN JAMES LALLY.

An interesting old manuscript has been forwarded in
aid of this work by Mr. Browne of Moyne ; it is
entitled, " Extracts from the Genealogy of the most
illustrious House of O'Mullally or O'Lally of Ireland,
collected from the old Irish MS. Books of Pedigrees,
as well as from the records preserved in the offices of
the Exchequer, the Polls, and the Auditor-General in
said kingdom, by William Hawkins, Esq., King of
Arms, &c, under the seal of his office." This compi-
lation deduces the family from Amlavus O'Maollalla,
Chief of Tulla-ny-Maolalla, descended in the thirteenth
generation from Maolalla, who, at the close of the tenth
century, was ruler of Moen-nioge, now Clanricarde ;
from which period the annals recorded are sad

* Singer's Corresp. v. 2, p. 273.

t Clarke's Mem. James II.., v. 2, p. 399.

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evidences of the feuds that existed between the
tanists of this house and the De Burgos. At length, in
1523, Dr. Thomas O'Mullally or Lally appears presi-
ding as Archbishop of Tuam at a synod there held.
In 1541, Melaghlin Mac Dermott O'Mullally
submitted himself, his vassals, and land, by indented
articles of agreement, to Sir Anthony St. Leger, Lord
Deputy ; and delivered his eldest son, John Mc
Melaghlin, then twenty-five years old, as a hostage for
performance on his part. Melaghlin had married
Margaret, daughter of Cormac Mac Eoger Mac Der-
mot, Chief of Moylurg, and their son, said John,
styled Baron of Tully-Mullally (converted into Tullin-
daly, and yet later to Tolendal) distinguished himself
with his galloglasses at the siege of Boulogne in
1544. He married a daughter of Hugh O'Madden,
Chief of Silanchia, and his brother William O'Mullally
was Archbishop of Tuam in 1573, by the Queen's ap-
pointment. In 1585, this Prelate was nominated in
a commission for the pacification of Connaught, and
died in 1595. James O'Mullally, the great grandson
of John, forfeited a great part of the family estate in
Cromwell's time ; he had married Elizabeth, daughter
of Gerald Dillon of Feamore in the County of Mayo
(brother of the first Viscount Dillon of Costello-
Gallen), and died on the old soil of Tullindaly. His
brothers Donald and William, following the fortunes of
Charles the Second, were outlawed, and the remainder
of the Lally estates in the Baronies of Dunmore and
Kilconnell, County of Galway, were thereupon confis-

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cated. The grandson of the last named James O'Mul-
lally was another James, a Captain [the officer under
present consideration] afterwards Colonel, who was
killed at Montmelian. Thus far, almost in the words
of the aforesaid Manuscript Pedigree, the authenticity
of which is vouched by " Lally Marquis Tollendal,
Peer of France, Minister of State, in Paris, 29th
October, 1817."

This Captain James Lally sat as Eepresentative of
Tuam in the Parliament of 1689, in the roll of which
he was expressly styled of Tullindaly. When Theo-
bald, the second Viscount Dillon, (writes O'Cal-
laghan*) raised in 1690, and sent over to France the
Eegiment subsequently known as Dillon's Regiment,
to form part of Lord Mountcashel's Brigade, having
appointed his son Colonel thereof, though then not
twenty years of age, he conferred the rank of Colonel,
as Commandant of the second Battalion, on his cousin
James Lally de Tollendal ; who, with his brothers
Gerald, William, and Mark Lally, mainly contributed
to form that second Battalion from several independent
companies. In the blockade and siege of Montmelian,
in November, 1691, this James was killed. Besides
this James in Colonel Henry Dillon's Infantry,
Edmund Lally was a Captain, and another James
Lally was an Ensign in Lord Galway's. The Attainders
of 1691 have but the names of James and Gerald.
The Tollindaly so confiscated was sold in 1703 to
Edward Crew, styled of Carrowkeel, County of Gal-

* History of the Brigades, p. 121.

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597

way, it being described as " the castle, town, and
lands of Tullynadaly, &c, in the Barony of Dunmore,
County of Galway f subject, however, to a legacy to
Michael Lally, and portions to Bridget Lally and to
Mary Jordan, alias Lally.

Gerald Lally, the attainted brother of James and
his companion in exile, married in France a lady
connected with some of the noblest houses in that
kingdom, and they were the parents of Thomas Arthur
Lally, the Count Lally, styled, from a devotion to the
natale solum, ' de Tollendal.' He was born in Dau-
phine in 1702, and was, according to the custom
then in France, entered a soldier on his birth. He
obtained a Company in Dillon's Irish Brigade at the age
of nineteen, and at twenty-five was, on Cardinal Fleury's
selection, sent to negotiate some important state
affairs with the Court of Eussia ; a mission in which
he acquitted himself so well, that he gained the confi-
dence of his master and a recommendation from the
Czarina. In 1743, he fought at Dettingen. In
1744, a Regiment was drafted from an Irish Brigade
for his command, hence styled ' Lally's Regiment,'
down to its reduction in 1763. At the battle of Ypres,
in May of the following year, this body of men was
signally distinguished ; Colonel Lally and several of his
officers were wounded. He, however, as Voltaire
relates,* " took with his own hand many English
officers, whereupon the King caused him to be
appointed a Colonel," afterwards a Brigadier-General.

* Siecle de Louis XIV., v. 4, p. 181.

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In the succeeding July (1745), when, by the aid of
Walsh, a merchant in Nantes, who was an Irish refu-
gee, Prince Charles Edward embarked in this last effort
to recover the crown of his ancestors, Colonel Lally
attended him, shared all the dangers and hardships of
that campaign, and was, as Yoltaire expresses it, the
soul of the enterprise. The Duke of Cumberland
caused him to be seized as a spy, but by influential
interposition he was discharged, on the terms of quit-
ting England within twenty-four hours. "His hatred
of the English and his courage," says Yoltaire, " led to
his having been selected some years after to command
the expedition required to uphold the French
Company established for traffic in India." The
details of this appointment and the circumstances con-
nected with it are given fully by that historian ;
enough here to say that, when he was appointed to
this command in 1755, it was avowed that he should
have forthwith a force of 3,000 men and £250,000 in
money, with three ships of war ; to which the French
India Company might add such vessels as they could
arm. The equipment was not, however, sent out
until two years after, and then so curtailed in every
particular, that Lally declined taking charge of it,

until peremptorily ordered so to do. The capture by

the English in 1761 of Pondicherry, of which he was
Governor, closed his career and that war in India.
He was taken prisoner by the English, removed to
Madras, and thence transported to England ; where,
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COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 599

that were raised against him in his own country, he
sought and obtained leave to return thither to meet
and confute them. Repairing to Fontainbleau, he
wrote to the Duke de Choiseul, 4 1 have brought
hither my head and my innocence, and shall await
your orders/ These orders were of unexampled
severity. His property was seized, and himself incarce-
rated in the Bastille for fifteen months before he was
brought to trial. " Is this the reward of forty years'
service ?" he cried, as he passed at the age of 64 to the
Conciergerie — to judgment. He was sentenced to die,
and having been guarded to the place of execution
and gagged, was beheaded in 1766, some hours previ-
ous to that which was fixed by his judges. His
remains were buried in an obscure church of Paris.
Thus died the Count Lally de Tollendal the Elder,
the victim of court intrigues to screen the faults of

others. He left a son, Gerald de Lally, born at

Paris in 1751, who, in the generous reverence of his
father's reputation, was successfully labouring in
1789 to obtain from the Parliament of Rouen a
reversal of his condemnation and an acknowledgment
of his innocence, when the Revolution breaking out
paralysed his efforts, and obliged him to seek an
asylum in Switzerland. But Gerald was a zealous
Royalist, and he it was who, on the memorable 20th
of July in that year, presenting the unfortunate King
to his people, delivered the eloquent and pathetic
address which is extant in the journals and history of
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he retired into Switzerland ; whence, nevertheless, he
returned to Paris in 1792, with the vain hope of
saving the King's life, but he was promptly arrested
and imprisoned in the Abbaye ; whence making his
escape to England, he resided for some years at Rich-
mond, until, on the Restoration of the Bourbons in
1814, he was made a Privy Councillor by Louis
XVIII. , with whom he retreated to Ghent on the
return of the exiled Emperor in the following year.
On the second Restoration he was created a Peer, and
soon after died.

CAPTAIN PATRICK MAC GAWLEY.

The Mac Gawleys, or more correctly Mac Awleys,
were Chiefs of Calrigia, a territory on the borders of
Westmeath and King's County, comprising the
present parish of Ballyloughloe in the Barony of Clon-
ronan ; while, according to Mac Geoghegan, the Sept
also possessed part of the Barony of Kilcoursy in the
King's County. They trace their lineage from Manie,
the fourth son of Niall of the Nine Hostages ; and a
venerable pedigree, long preserved in the family,
details the succession from him to Awley of the 13th
century, and from him to the present representative.
In this pedigree the respective matches of each tanist
are confidently given. The Four Masters commemo-
rate the death of Aireachtach Mac Awley, then Chief
of Calrigia, in 1187. In 1460, Manus Mc Awley, its

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chief, married Una O'Mulloy, daughter of the Lord of
Fearcal. In 1527, say the same annalists with
undisguised candour, Aulaff Oge Dhu Mac Awley,
the Chief of Calrigia, was slain by the Clan Colman ;
but previous to his death he had his revenge, for he
slew at the same place Fiochadh Mac Geoghegan. In
the seventeenth century occurred the marriage of
Henry Mac Gawley, then the Chief, with Maria
daughter of John Brown of the Neal. A very detailed
pedigree in the ascending line of this Henry, through
twenty -four generations, to Byrne, son of Maurice,
whom it mentions as having been baptized by St.
Patrick, is incorporated in a Funeral Entry in Bir-
mingham Tower. Henry had by this lady five sons;
the above Patrick, Henry, John, Philip, and Gerald.
Francis, third son of said Patrick by the daughter of
John Leicester of Kilcormack, was father of Awley Mac
Awley, who, in the early part of his life, was in the
service of Maria Theresa. His son was the late
Count Francis Philip Mac Awley, who married in
1808 Clara, daughter and sole heiress of the Count
Cerati, and was in 1815 the chosen Prime Minister of
the Ex-Empress Maria Louisa. He died in 1835,
when his son Valerio, Count Magawley (Cerati),
succeeded to the representation of this ancient Sept.
The Mac Gawley s attainted in 1691 were the above
Patrick, styled of Tulliwood, County of Westmeath,
with twelve others of the name. He had risen to be
a Lieutenant-Colonel in this campaign, and was
adjudged within the Articles of 1698. At the Court

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of Claims in 1700, Christopher Mac Gawley and
Jane his wife claimed an estate tail in Westmeath
lands forfeited by James Mac Gawley, but their
prayer was disallowed ; while a Patrick Mac Gawley
sought and obtained a long leasehold term, and a
mortgage affecting Westmeath lands, as well those of
said James as of Henry Mac Gawley. In 1709, a
Michael ' Mac Auley ' was a Colonel in Spain of a
Regiment formed by Philip the Fifth, of those Irish
who had deserted from the English army then in that
country ; and in the Spanish campaign of the follow-
ing year O'Conor * mentions this Eegiment as having
been distinguished.

CAPTAIN WALTER BLAKE.

The founder of this family in Ireland, says Sir
Bernard Burke in his Baronetage, was Richard Blake,
alias Caddell, who accompanied Prince John in 1185
into this Kingdom, and subsequently obtained large
grants in Connaught. His descendant and namesake
was commanded in 1303, as Sheriff of Connaught, to
levy a debt due to the Crown by David de Burgo. —
In 1487, Robert Blake was Bishop of Clonmacnoise
by the Pope's provision. Francis Blake of this old
Galway family was one of the Confederates at the
Supreme Council of Kilkenny, of which Assembly Sir
Richard Blake, the founder of the family of Ardfry,

* O'Conors Milit. Mem. p. 353.

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was Speaker. In King James's New Charter to
Gal way in 1687, fourteen of this name were set down
upon the Eoll of Burgesses. Eight of the name of
Blake were attainted in 1691, and amongst them the
above Walter, described as of Galway. He was in
truth Sir Walter Blake of Menlough ; and, though he
was one of the Representatives of the County of
Galway in the Parliament of 1689, he was yet, says
Sir Bernard Burke,* 4 the first Catholic gentleman
that joined the standard of the Prince of Orange, and
obtained a commission from his Highness to raise a
Eegiment which he maintained and clothed at his own
expense.' He was, however, formally attainted in
1691, as was also John Blake of Ardfry ; but Sir
Walter was adjudged within the articles of 1698 and
1699, as were Lieutenant Blake of Drum, and
Eichard Blake of Ardfry. The latter was one of the
Burgesses named in the New Charter to Galway, but
not having taken arms for either party, his own
burned Ardfry and destroyed his property, in conse-
quence of which De Ginkle promised him relief that
he afterwards obtained; but, being a papist, much diffi-
culty was interposed to his getting possession of his
lands. f Francis and Martin Blake, who were also of
King James's party, obtained pardons under the Great
Seal. At Chichester House Sir Walter Blake claimed
and was allowed a fee in estates in the County of
Clare, forfeited by John Blake of Ardfry ; while on
other estates of said John, Isidore and Patrick Blake,

* Peerage, p. 90. f Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 38.

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minors, by their uncle and guardian Thomas Lynch,
sought respective remainders ; as did Mary Lynch,
otherwise Blake, his widow, her jointure. Joseph
Henry Blake, the representative of the Ardfry line,
was in 1800 ennobled by the title of Lord Baron
Wallscourt.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM BRABAZON.

Sir Bernard Burke remarks in his Peerage that
Jaques C. Brabazon appears in the Roll of Battle-
Abbey, as one of the Knights that accompanied the
Conqueror to England. In 1534, his lineal descend-
ant, Sir William Brabazon, was Vice-Treasurer and
General-Receiver of Ireland, and was thrice at £he
head of the Irish government as Lord Justice. His
eldest son, Edward Brabazon, was one of the Repre-
sentatives for the County of Wicklow in Perrot's Par-
liament of 1585, and from him have descended the
Earls of Meath. This name does not appear on the
Attainders of 1641 ; but in 1652, Anthony Brabazon,
described as of Ballinasloe, a younger branch of the
aforesaid Sir William, and ancestor of the Baronets of
the County of Mayo, was excepted from pardon for
life and estate by Cromwell's Ordinance. It has not
been ascertained of what family was the above
Captain ; and the Earl of Meath of that day was so
identified with King William, as to have been
attainted in James's Parliament. He had the com-

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 605

mand of a Regiment in the service of the former at
the battle of the Boyne ; at the subsequent first siege
of Limerick led a Regiment, on which occasion several
of his men were shot,* and he was wounded ; was
sworn of King William's Privy Council, and afterwards
of Queen Anne's, and died in February, 1708, s.P.

CAPTAIN HUGH MAC DERMOT.

The early annals of this once powerful family are
fully detailed in the ' Book of Lecan,' avowedly from
the more ancient Psalter of Cashel. The 1 Book of
Kilronan,' compiled by their chief ' Seanachies] the
O'Duigenans, has, as might be expected, most inte-
resting particulars of their lineage. He, who in re-
mote time may be pointed out as Prepositus of
this Sept, was Maolruana, King of Moylurg at the time
of the battle of Clontarf in 1014 ; he, however,
having been, as the Annalists relate, too old to be pre-
sent at that great engagement, one of his sons led his
Sept, the Clan-Maolruana, on that memorable day.
His lineal descendant in the seventh generation was
Dermott, who died in 1159, " Supreme Councillor,
Sage, and excellent Mediator of one-fifth of Con.
naught," In him the surname originated, while their
territory was called Moylurg. Conor, the son of this
Dermott, Tanist of Moylurg in the twelfth century,
after enjoying the sovereignty of this little principal-

* Rawdon Papers, p. 334.

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it j for ten years, took upon him the Cistercian habit,
and became a monk in the Abbey of Boyle, within
whose still noble and picturesque walls he was
interred in 1198 ; whereupon the government hereof
devolved upon Tumultagh (Timothy) Mac Dermot,
his son, who erected in 1204 the original castle on
an Island of Lough Ke, within the beautiful demesne
of Viscount Lorton. Thomas, (the son of Ferral Mac
Dermot, theretofore Abbot of Boyle), was in 1262
promoted to the Bishopric of Elphin. In this interval
branched off the founders of the Mac Dermots-na-Gall
and the McDermotts Ruagh (Roe). Early in the
fourteenth century Dermot McDermot ofMoylurgwas
one of the Irish Magnates who, from a hatred of the
English government, invited the invasion of Edward,
the brother of King Robert Bruce. On his arrival in
Ulster, Dermot was one of the first who joined his
standard, and fell, his unsuccessful ally, in the last
struggle of the invader at the battle of Athenry, with
many other McDermots, his adherents. From Conor
Mac Dermot of this period sprung the McDermots 'of
the Rock.' To the Parliament convened by Sir John
Perrot in 1585, Teigue the son of Hugh 'Oge,' being
tanist of Moylurg and very old, sent his relative ' of
the Rock,' viz. Bryan, son of Rory, son of Teigue, son
of Rory Oge, who was the great grandson of Connor,
the founder of that line (as aforesaid), to represent the
Sept at this first national Assembly. Teigue's line
afterwards became extinct, and the Captainship
passed to the family ' of the Rock.'

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In 1602, when the Lord Deputy Mount joy
passed the Christmas at Galway, the McDermot
(styled 'of the Curlews') made his submission to him.
Bryan McDermot was then the Chief; in 1603, how-
ever, his estates were held to be confiscated, and
seven leading members of the Sept were obliged to
sue out their pardons. In 1604, King James
granted to Sir Theobald Dillon, Knight, (afterwards
created Viscount Dillon, and ancestor of the Colonel
of this Regiment), the wardship of Bryan Oge
McDermot, son and heir of the aforesaid Bryan ' of
the Rock,' for the consideration of a fine of £4, and
an annual rent of £3 6s. 8d., the patentee retaining
thereout certain allowances for the maintenance and
education of the minor. This Bryan attained age in
1618, when he had from the Crown a grant which
would seem magnificent and extensive (covering as it
does sixteen skins of parchment, the first richly illu-
minated) yet comprising but a portion of the former
princely inheritance of the Sept. He died Chief in
1636, and was buried in a church founded by one of
his ancestors, within the holy ambit of Clonmacnoise.
His second son, Charles, on the death of an elder
brother Terence without issue, became seized of Moy-
lurg — its last Chief. He had married Eleanor,
daughter 'of the great O'Mulloy of Croghan,'* in the
County of Roscommon.

Hugh Mc Dermot, the Captain in this notice, was

* For fuller particulars of this fine old Sept, see D'Alton's
Annals of Boyle, v. 1, p. 97, &c.

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the eldest son of said Charles and Eleanor ; he was
taken prisoner at Aughrim, bnt, on the interference
and by the interest of Sir Bobert King, the ancestor of
Viscount Lorton, (then residing at Eockingham, part
of the ancient property of the McDermots), he was
released, avowedly by reason of the humanity and
kindness evinced by him towards the Protestant
Clergy and Laity. He intermarried with Eliza,
daughter of O'Kelly of Aughrim, and by her had issue
Charles and Terence. In January, 1688, Ballymote
was garrisoned by the latter, who represented the
Borough of Boyle in King James's Parliament of
Dublin, and was consequently attainted in King
William's ; whereupon all his interest in the family
estates (the greater portion of which had been conveyed
in 1669 to him by his father) was confiscated ; and his
brother Charles succeeded only to Coolavin on the
death of their father, Captain Hugh, in 1707.
Before that event, in September, 1690, this Charles
was, in virtue of King James's Commission, directed
and empowered to receive for his Majesty the Castle
of Carrick Mac Dermott, i.e. the Castle of the Bock,
in Lough Ke, and the Castle or Strong House of
Canbo, and all other the Castles and Strong Houses
upon the said Charles's estate and ancient inheritance.
He died in 1758, at the advanced age of 98, leaving
issue by his lady, Catherine Dillon of the House of
Clonbrock, Myles his eldest son, who married a
daughter of Charles O'Conor, the elder historian, and
died at Coolavin in 1793, leaving issue Hugh and

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 609

other children. Hugh married his cousin Elizabeth,
daughter of Denis O'Conor of Ballinagar, (ancestor
of the O'Conors Don), and by her had Charles and
several other children. Charles intermarried with
Arabella O'Eourke of the ancient Sept of Brefhy, by
whom he has a numerous issue, and he now ranks as
the lineal representative of the elder line of the Mac
Dermots. Besides the above Captain Hugh, there
are in commission, in different Eegiments of this Army
List, nine other McDermots or McDermotts. In the
Parliament of 1689, Terence McDermott, who was an
Alderman of Dublin, and a Captain in Sir Michael
Creagh's Infantry, represented, with his Colonel, that
City. Terence of Coolavin, with Captain John
King, represented the Borough of Boyle ; while
Eobert Dermot was one of the Members for Dundalk,
and Bryan Dermod for Carlingford. The Attainders
of 1691 exhibit the names of thirteen of the Sept.

CAPTAIN TEEENCE McDONOUGH.

The McDonoughs were a powerful Sept in the
County of Sligo, having an extensive territory in the
Barony of Corran; they were also at a very early date
established in the County of Cork, where they held
the noble castle of Kanturk. In the former County
they are considered to have branched from the Mac
Dermots, in the latter from the McCarties. This Sept
is expressly stated by the Four Masters to have taken

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their patronymic in Sligo, from a Donough who flou-
rished there in 1278. The same Annalists record,
with much importance of language, the progress of
Mac Donough of Tyrrerill in 1397 to the plain of
Connaught (about Boyle), with his whole force, pro-
perty, and cattle, in order to aid the O'Conor. In
1446, " the McDonoughs, Turlough Carrach O'Connor,
and O'Conor Don having joined Mac William of Clan-
ricarde, for the purpose of appointing a McDonough
in Tyrrerill, they finally agreed on electing two Mac
Donoughs, giving half of the country to each, namely
to John, the son of Conor McDonough, and to Teigue
the son of Tomaltach More McDonough." In 1598,
" Ballymote, (in Sligo) which had been in possession
of the Queen's people for thirteen years till this time,
was taken by its own original inheritors, namely, by
the McDonoughs of Corran." By a patent of 1617
various manors, castles, towns, and lands of their
ancient territory in the County of Sligo were, accord-
ing to the policy of the day, re-granted on new and
more forfeitable tenures to different members of this
Sept, as also to those of O'Hara, O'Higgins, and
O'Connor ; while the same patent included other
re-grants to the O'Dowdes and O'Garas in that county
and in Mayo. The Attainders of 1642 have the
names of five M'Donoughs ; those of 1691, twelve.
On the Army List, besides Captain Terence, there
appear Henry M'Donough, a Lieutenant in Sir
Charles O'Brian's Infantry ; and Morgan M'Donough,
an Ensign in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's. In the Parli-

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 611

ament of Dublin the above Terence M'Donough was
one of the Representatives returned for the Borough
of Sligo, but appears to have been the same Captain,
who was at that time taken prisoner at Deny in the
attack at the Windmill ;* while Hamilton, in his
" Enniskilleners" (p. 19) says that in May, 1689,
Ballyshannon was relieved by them, and the Irish
obliged to evacuate. " All their foot fled away to-
towards Sligo, or got off safe, except some few that
were taken in the Fish Island near the town, with
their Captain, one Mac Donough, a counsellor-at-law,
commonly known by the name of 'blind' Mac Donough."
In 1690, one of the Cork McDonoughs was appointed
by King James a Governor of that County.

LIEUTENANT PAUL RUTLEDGE.

This officer is described, in the Inquisition taken on
his attainder, as 'of Clontikilty, County Mayo.' A
James Rutledge, on the same roll of outlawries, was
possessed of property in the town of Galway, off which
Catherine Rutledge, otherwise Blake, claimed and was
allowed jointure.

LIEUTENANT MURROUGH MELAGHLIN.
The power of the family that bore this name, and the

* Walker's Derry, p. 61.

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612 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

extent of territory over which it lorded as a Koyal
appropriation, are evinced in the grant from Henry the
Second to Hugh de Lacy, making over to him the
whole Province of Meath, including Westmeath (of
modern partition); yet, in the lapse of centuries, this
great name has become extinct, or is only sought to
be traced in existing assimilations, as M'Loughlin,
O'Laughlin, &c. According to the native chronicles,
a daughter of O'Melaghlin, King of Meath in the
ninth century, was the agent of killing Turgesius the
Danish tyrant, by a stratagem like that related by
Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas. At the commence-
ment of the eleventh century, Malachy O'Melaghlin,
theretofore the acknowledged King of Ireland, was
deposed by Brien Boroimhe. In 1105, the territory
of Meath was divided between the sons of Donald
O'Melaghlin. In the progress of the same century,
Murrough O'Melaghlin was one of the chief leaders in
the feudal conflicts, that opened Ireland to the English
adventurers ; while the abduction of his daughter,
then wife of O'Pourke, is effectively narrated by the
Annalists as leading in that invasion. His Kingdom
passed from him, and even his great mensal patri-
mony, the Province of Meath, was given as a Palati-
nate to Hugh de Lacy, to be held as amply as it had
been enjoyed by said Murrough. This great family
was, however, afterwards one of the five Irish Septs
to whom the privilege of using the English laws was
confined. In 1314, when Edward the Second sought
the aid of the Irish magnates, he directed an especial

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letter missive to 1 UMelan Helyn, Duci Hibemorum
Midice? In 1462, when the remaining estates of this
family were invaded by the Palesmen, aided by the
Lord Deputy, the native clans espoused their cause
and took the Viceroy prisoner. In the time of James
the First, this Sept was stripped of a very considera-
ble portion of their old territory, a large tract of
which, described as ' O'Melaghlin's Country,' situated
about Clonmacnoise, and comprising advowsons, rec-
tories, churches, chief rents, lands, &c. was granted
to Kichard, Earl of Clanricarde ; while about the same
time Francis Blundel, ' Clerk of the Commission for
Defective Titles,' had a grant of other O'Melaghlin
estates in the County of Westmeath. On the Attain-
ders of 1642, only two of the name appear, William
(Dhu) Mc Melaghlin, and Edmund Mc Melaghlin of
Ballyshanduff, County of Wicklow. The outlawries
of 1691 name but one, Maolseachlin O'Melaghlin, of
Lough-Mask, County of Mayo ; so completely had the
family been expelled from their ancient province.

LIEUTENANT LUKE SHEILL.

The O'Sheills were an ancient Clan of the County of
Antrim, and accordingly another officer of the name,
Lieutenant Patrick 'O'Sheale,' stands on the roll of
Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry. This Luke or
Lucas was, however, of Ballinderry, County of West-
meath ; by which description he, William Sheill, and

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Denis Sheill were attainted in 1691. There were
also then outlawed Daniel 'O'Sheal' of Creggan,
County of Antrim ; Francis O'Shiel of Boviddy,
County of Derry ; Hugh O'Sheil of Drumgolan,
County of Down, clerk ; and Patrick 'Sheile' of An-
nabeg, County of Sligo. In 1695, Roger Sheill, the
eldest son of the above William of Ballinderry, peti-
tioned the Irish House of Commons, stating that he
was a Protestant and the eldest son of a Papist, and
praying that a Committee might be appointed to pre-
pare heads of a Bill to prevent his being disinherited
by his said father. To this petition William Sheill
replied, setting forth "that he was willing, without an
Act of Parliament, to settle his estates on his Protes-
tant sons and none else, and that he had no design to
disinherit his eldest son Roger Sheill, as being a Pro-
testant, though he be less dutiful to him than his
other sons ; and praying that in regard his real estate
is not worth above £10 per annum, and that the
allegations of his son Eoger are false, that the House
would examine into the truth on both sides." A
Committee was accordingly appointed for the purpose.
In 1747, a Captain 'Sheill,' was killed at Lauffield in
Dillon's Regiment.

ENSIGN THOMAS DOLPHIN.

This name is of record in the native Annals from the
time of Henry the Third.

COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY.

615

ENSIGN EDMUND DOWELL.

This officer does not appear on the Attainders ot
1691; the only persons of the name there are Hugo
and Patrick O'Dowell of Tullyard, County of Down ;
and Dionysius 'Dowell' of Moneylagh, County of
Roscommon.

ENSIGN THOMAS COSTELLO.

The Costellos, or, as the family were more usually
styled on the Irish records, Mc Costellos, sprung in
truth from Hostilio the second son of Gilbert de An-
gulo. In 1192, his descendant and namesake Gilbert
Mac Costello led what the Annalists call an army to
Easroa near Bally shannon, and there erected a castle.
Myles Mc Costello invaded the country of Mac Ranall
in 1247, but was repulsed. In 1487, say the Four
Masters, John (Dim) Mc Costello, Lord of Sleive
Lugha (in Mayo) died, and two of the Sept were nomi-
nated to succeed him ; and in 1565, when recount-
ing the military expedition of Sir Richard Bingham
through that county, they mark Castlemore, near
Ballaghaderrin, as the chief seat of the Mac Costello.
In 1666, say the Rawdon Papers, 'the great Tory,
Colonel Costello, was killed.' The name does not ap-
pear on the attainders of 1641, and only that of Wil-
liam Costello, of Ross, County of Wexford, on those
of 1691 ; but, by the proceedings before the Court of

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Claims in 1700, it is shown that a Thomas 'Costelloe'
there claimed a remainder in Mayo lands, forfeited by
Miles 'Costelloe;' his petition was, however, 'dismist.'

ENSIGN PHELIM HAKT.

The name of Hart or 'Hert' is of Irish record from
the time of Edward the First, while O'Dugan says
that the O'Harts were an ancient Sept, settled in the
immediate vicinity of Tara. On the Attainders of
1642 are two O'Hartes and one Hart. The name
does not appear on those of 1691 ; but, at the sales
of 1703, the estate of a John Hart, described as 'of
Blundelstown, County of Dublin,' was sold as forfeited
property by the Commissioners. Besides this Ensign,
a Simon Hart held the same rank in the Infantry
Kegiment of Sir Maurice Eustace.

LORD GAL WAY'S INFANTRY.

617

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

ULICK, LORD GALWAY's.

Captains.

Lieutenants.

Ensigns.

The Colonel.

Edward Tully.

Richard Wolferston.

Morrogh Flaherty,

James Lynch.

Daniel Mally.

Lieut. Colonel.

Thomas Magrath.

Terence Magrath.

James Egan.

Miles Bourke.

Redmond Archdeacon.

Carberry Egan.

Thomas Bourke.

Ulick Bourke.

. Hubert Bourke.

John Power.

David Stapleton.

William Synon.

M'Laughlin Donnelan.

M'Laughlin Daly.

Gerald Bourke.

John M'Coghlan.

Cornelius Coghlan.

Morgan ' Cuolaghan.

Thomas Bourke.

Eichard Bourke.

Francis Bourke.

Edmund Lally.

William Kelly.

James Lally.

John Carroll.

William Carroll.

Daniel Carroll.

James Power.

Richard Bourke.

Thomas Lynch.

Cornelius Horan.

Roger Horan.

Lawrence Carroll.

James Lynch.

Ulick ' Bonrck.'

Dominick Martin.

COLONEL ULICK DE BURGH, LORD
GALWAY.

The family of Bourke and Burke has been noticed as
fully, as here allowable, at the Earl of Clanricarde's
Regiment of Infantry, ante, p. 5 1 1 , &c. This Ulick was
the eldest son of William, Earl of Clanricarde, by his
second wife. He was created Baron Tyaquin and
Viscount Galway. Lodge characterizes him as a
nobleman of true courage, and endued with many
good qualities. He fought in this army when but

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twenty-two years of age, and fell at Aughrim.
" Some say," writes Story, " that my Lord Galway
had hard measure from some of our troops, who killed
him after he had surrendered himself a prisoner, not
to themselves but to some others."

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MORROGH
O'FLAHERTY.

This Sept was originally settled in the Barony of
Clare, County of Galway ; whence in the thirteenth
century they were driven to the western side of
Lough Corrib, and were there styled Lords of Iar or
Western Connaught. On the islands of that water
they had many castles, traces of some of which still
remain. " Itf 1132," writes Hardiman,* " the King
of Munster despatched a body of men by sea, to take
the Castle of Galway, which his General Cormac Mac
Carthy having effected, put the garrison to the sword,
levelled and destroyed the Castle and Town, and soon
after defeated and slew Connor O'Flahertie, Lord of
Iar-Connaught." In 1243, Henry the Third sum-
moned the O'Flahertie to do military service against
the King of Scotland.f To Perrot's Parliament
in 1585, " no one of note went from the Western
Province of Connaught, except Morrogh (' na duaghj
1 of the battle-axes,') the son of Teigue, son of

* History of Galway, p. 40.

| Lynch, on Feudal Dignities, p. 191.

LORD GAL WAY'S INFANTRY.

619

Morrogh, son of Koderic O'Flaherty."* About this
time the O'Briens were expelled from the Isles of
Arran by the OTlaherties of Iar-Connaught, when a
Commission issued which found them the right of the
Queen, and she thereupon granted them to John
Rawson of Athlone.f In 1606, John King, of Dub-
lin, had a grant from the Crown of castles and lands,
estates of the OTlaherties in the County of Galway,
- slain in rebellion;' while in 1610, Morrough-ne-
Moyer OTflahertie of Benowen had a grant of the
castles or forts of Benowen, and Ballynahinch, with
various lands, fisheries, and chief-rents, described as
having come to the Crown by the attainder of Teigue,
son of Sir Morrogh-ne-doe O'Flahertie, 'lately slain in
rebellion.' In two years after, Sir Robert Newcomen,
Knight, had a grant of other Galway lands, part of
the estate of said Teigue.

Morrogh Flaherty of Culvin, County of Westmeath,
is the the only one of this name on the Outlawries of
1642. In Cromwell's Act of 1652, said Morrough-ne-
Moyer O'Flaherty of the County of Galway, and
Teigue O'Flaherty were excepted from pardon for life
and estate. The former passed out of Ireland to
serve King Charles the Second 4 beyond the seas,' and
received that Monarch's thanks therefor in the clause
of Eoyal gratitude embodied in the Act of Settlement.
Eoderic O'Flahertie, the well-known author of the
' Ogygia^1 was born in 1630, within the old family ter-

* Four Masters, ad ann.

t Ilardiman's Galway, p. 319.

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ritory at Moycullen, his interest in which was lost on
the confiscations of 1641. He dedicated the Ogygia
to James, then Duke of York* ; and was living on the
old soil in 1709, when Mr. Molineux, the antiquary,
made him a visit, which is very interestingly spoken
of in a Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin,
(I. 4, 12.) Nine years after, he died, in the 89th
year of his age, of want, as is alleged in a Tract recently
published by the Irish Archaeological Society. In
1641, Morrough Dhu OTflahertie was chosen one of
the Captains of the forces raised by the Assembly
then held at Loughrea, and his able resistance to the
Marquis of Clanricarde, is often alluded to in the
Memoirs of that nobleman. Amongst the nobles and
chiefs, who went out of Ireland to Charles the Second
in his exile, and who were afterwards specially men-
tioned in his Letter from Breda, was this Captain
Morrough, then the OTflahertie, and who had married
the daughter of Viscount Mayo. Besides this officer,
whose Lieutenant-Colonelcy was soon after given to
John Power, Hugh Flaherty was a Lieutenant in
Colonel Heward Oxburgh's Infantry. The Eoll of
the ensuing Outlawries names Teigue Mac Morgan
Flaherty of Ballynahinch, and Hugo and Patrick
Flaherty of Park, in the County of Gal way, but has
no mention of this Morrough ; while at the Court of
1700, Bryan Flaherty claimed and was allowed a
term for years in County of Galway lands 'forfeited by
Morrogh Flaherty.'

* Ware's Writers, p. 271.

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621

Amongst the Manuscripts of Marsh's Library, ( V.
3. 1. 25, No. 25) is a Petition of Cornet Robert Fla-
herty, in which he states " that, being bred a Protest-
ant, he had ever sought to advance the cause of King
William and that religion, that he was suffering for
his principles, &c, and prayed Royal relief." In the
alarm which existed in 1745, on the assertion of the
Pretender's title in Scotland, the representative of this
family proffered to the Viceroy (the Earl of Chester-
field) at Dublin Castle, the most solemn assurances of
his fidelity and of that of his family and people to the
King's person and government. His grandson, John,
inherited the remaining family estates, and, accepting
a commission in his Majesty's army, was styled therein
Sir John O'Fflahertie, his ancestors having been
always held to be hereditary Knights of West Con-
naught. Sir John's son and heir, says Lynch,* is the
present Thomas Henry O'Fflahertie of Lemonfield,
County of Galway, who still inherits a portion of the
family estates. In 1747, Captain Francis Flaherty,
in Lally's Regiment, was severely wounded in the
battle at Laufheld. In 1768, died at Nice Count
O'Flaherty, who had been long in the Imperial
service ; and in two years after died General
O'Flaherty, for many years in the service of Spain.

* Feudal Dignities, p. 1G3.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

captain Mclaughlin donelan.

The Sept of the O'Donelans, from which this Captain
descended, were Chiefs of Clan-Breasail in the Barony
of Leitrim, County of Galway ; and are so located by
O'Dugan in his Topographical Poem on Ireland.
They also ruled over Hy Tuirtre, a territory lying
along the northern shores of Lough Neagh, comprising
the Baronies of Toome and Antrim, in the County of
Antrim. They derive their lineage from Murrough
Mullethan, a King of Connaught in the eighth century,
from whose time frequent annals of their obits in the
Irish Chronicles commemorate them as c Chief Poets'
of that Province. In 1412, Tully O'Donelan, then
Chief, built the Castle of Ballydonelan on the site, it is
related, of a more ancient stronghold of his family. He
also built a chapel and family cemetery at the abbey
of Kilconnel, hence called ' Chapel-Tully.' Melaghlin
O'Donelan died at Ballydonelan in 1548 ; he was father
of Dr. Nehemiah, who was educated at Cambridge, and
consecrated Archbishop of Tuam on Queen Elizabeth's
patent in 1595. He married Elizabeth O'Donnell,
daughter of the then Earl of Tyrconnell, and died in
1609, leavingbyher, John, his eldest son, and James, who
became Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in
Ireland. John was the great-grandfather of the above
officer, who should be more correctly styled, 4 Me-
laghlin Donelan.' He rose to the rank of Colonel,
was wounded at Aughrim, and was afterwards com-
prehended in the Articles of Limerick. He had mar-

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623

ried Mary, daughter of Robert Dillon, (ancestor of the
Lords Clonbrock,) and died at his house in Dublin in
1726, leaving issue, through which this family has
been since represented, and is now by another
Malachy, a minor. James Donelan, the brother of
the above officer, was a Captain and afterwards a
Major in Lord Louth's Regiment of Infantry. At
the close of the campaign he passed into France
where he obtained a commission and rank from Louis
the Fourteenth, but was killed in Piedmont in 1693.
The Attainders of 1691 included Edward Donnelan
of Killenane, County of Galway ; with James Donelan
of Bally donelan. In 1696, Nehemiah Donellan, a
collateral of this House, being then a Baron of the
Irish Exchequer, was appointed one of the Commis-
sioners of the Great Seal, and had at the same time a
grant of lands in the Counties of Galway and Roscom-
mon. In 1703, he was appointed Chief Baron. This
Nehemiah was the surviving son of the aforesaid Sir
James Donellan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
He had married Mary, daughter of Alderman John
Preston of Dublin, and had issue by her James, John,
and William Donellan. She died in September,
1684, and was buried in Christ Church.* The peti-
tions preferred against the forfeited estates by
Donelans in 1700, were for claims attaching to the
confiscations of Lord Bophin, Lord Galway, Hugh
Kelly, Sir Edward Tyrrell, and the Earl of Clanri-
carde. In 1742, Peter O'Donelan was the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Clonfert.

* Funeral Entry, Berm. Tur.

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CAPTAIN CORNELIUS HORAN.

The O'Horans were a clan in the County of Gal way.
This Captain does not appear on the Roll of
Attainders, but his Lieutenant Roger Horan does, and
is there described as of Abbey Gormigan, County of
Gal way.

LIEUTENANT EDWARD TULLY.

He was also of a Galway family ; and though he does
not appear on the Attainders of 1691, there are there
Thaddeus Tully, of Athlone, Thomas of Galway, and
Matthew of Clymore in that County. Claims on the
estates of the latter were preferred in 1700 by Agnes
Tully, his widow, for her jointure, as well as on behalf
of her sons by said Matthew, viz. Edward, William,
Thomas, and Matthias, for remainders ; and on behalf
of her daughters Mary and Agnes for their portions.
These claims were, however, dismissed for non-prosecu-
tion, and the estate of Clymore was thereupon sold by
the Commissioners of the Forfeitures to Frederick
Trench, Esq. of Galbally, ancestor of the Earl of
Clancarty.

LIEUTENANT DAVID STAPLETON.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
the English Invasion. Another officer of the name,

LORD GALWAY'S INFANTRY.

625

Piers, was a Lieutenant in Major-General Boiseleau's
Infantry, and in their attainders they are described,
the former as of Kilbolane and Buttevant, the latter
as of Ballyfrizzle, County of Cork ; while another
Stapleton, whose Christian name is not given, is styled
of Portumna, County of Galway. At the memorable
battle of Fontenoy, fought on the 11th of May, 1745,
M. Stapleton, Lieutenant-Colonel in Berwick's
Brigade, was, in consequence of his gallant conduct,
promoted to be a Brigadier. Being made a prisoner
at Culloden in the ensuing year, he headed a memorial
from the officers there taken, to the Duke of Cumber-
land, by which, acknowledging themselves prisoners
of war of His Britannic Majesty, they engaged not to
go out of the town of Inverness without his Grace's
licence. " Done at the Head Quarters at Inverness,
April 17th, 1746." Signed and sealed. This interest-
ing memorial of banished Irish Cavaliers is preserved
in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1746, p. 211.

ENSIGN WILLIAM SHINAN.

The attainder of this officer describes him as of Kil-
bolane, County of Cork ; while a previous attainder
of 1642 has William Shynnane of Castletown in the
same county ; but the name so spelt was evidently
corrupted from O'Shanahan — " a Sept," writes that
able Irish genealogist, Dr. Mc Dermott, in his notes
to the Four Masters (Geraghty's edition, p. 199),

626 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

" descended from Lorcan, King of Munster, and
grandfather of Brian Bom, and hence a branch of
the Dalcassians. They were in ancient times power-
ful Chiefs, and in the great battle of Moinmor in
Desmond, fought in 1151, it is stated by the Four
Masters that, amongst others, seven chiefs of the
O'Shanahans were slain. Their ancient territory was
called Feadha Hy Eongaile, or 'the Woods of Hy
Eongaile,' comprising the country about Eibhlone,
near Cashel. In modern times they possessed the
lands of Eathmoyne, between Cashel and Temple-
more."

EEGIMENTS OF INFANTEY.

LORD JOHN BELLEW'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

Lord Bellew,

Colonel.

[Nicholas Fitzgerald,

Lieutenant-Colonel. ]
[John Dowdele,

Major.]

Colin Hanlon. John Hanlon. Patrick Hanlon.

Henry O'Neill. Ter. Morris.

Oliver Murphy. Phelim ' Murphie.' Daniel Crowley.

Bryan 'Murphye.' Dennis ' Murphie.' John ' Murphey.'

Eichard Bellew. John Dowdall.

Patrick Bellew. Tady Crowley.

Hugh 0"Xeill, John Halfpenny.
Grenad.

LOUD BELLEW's INFANTRY.

627

COLONEL JOHN LORD BELLEW.

The family of Bellew, originally of Norman descent,
came with the Conqueror to England, and into Ire-
land in the ensuing century. In both countries it
has been so distinguished, as to exhibit no less than
eighteen Knights of the pre-eminently chivalrous
Order of the Banner ; while Peers and distinguished
Commoners of the same lineage occur most numerous
on the Soils of Parliament, but whose honors, by fail-
ure of issue, or yet more by attainders, have become
extinct. Sichard Bellew was one of the Sepresenta-
tives of Dundalk in Perrot's Parliament of 1585 ;
and Sir John Bellew of Willystown in Louth repre-
sented that County in the Parliament of 1639. He
was afterwards one of the members of the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny in 1646 ; and as such was
excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell's
Act of 1652. Having married Mary, daughter of
Sobert Dillon of Clonbrock (ancestor of the Lords
Clonbrock), he was himself the founder of the lines
that are now represented by Lord Bellew and Sir
Michael Dillon Bellew respectively.

John Bellew of Bellewstown, who had by the Act
of Settlement been restored to his previously usurped
estates, was the Colonel above named. On the acces-
sion of James the Second he was knighted, appointed
one of that Monarch's earliest Councillors, and soon
after created an Irish Peer by the title of Baron Bel-
lew of Duleek, and was also constituted Lord Lieute-

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nant and Governor of the County of Louth. In the
command of this Regiment he was taken prisoner at
Aughrim, and was so severely wounded that he died in
the following January, as commemorated on his tomb,
still standing in the middle of the aisle of Duleek
church. It states that he was shot in the belly at
Aughrim, and that, " as soon as he found himself able
to undertake a journey, he went with his lady to
London, where he died, 12th January, 1692. He
was laid in a vault at Westminster till the April fol-
lowing, when his corpse was brought hither." His lady,
Dame Mary Bellew, alias Bermingham, of Dunfert,
County of Kildare, who erected the monument, died
in 1694. Lord Bellew was outlawed in 1691, and
his estates were actually granted to Lords Roinney and
Trevor ; but, he having been comprehended within
the Articles of Limerick, these estates were restored
to his second son, Richard, who had obtained a par-
don, as hereafter noted. The Honorable Walter, the
eldest son of Lord Bellew, succeeded to the title, and
was by court influence permitted to enjoy it, though
he too was wounded at Aughrim. He died without
issue male in 1696, when the aforesaid Richard
became the third Lord Bellew. His son John was
the fourth, but he also died without issue male at
Lisle, whereby the Bellewstown line became extinct.
The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Nicholas
Bellew of Balruddery, surgeon ; and of Patrick Bellew
of Athboy. The Declaration of Royal gratitude from
Charles the Second, as 'for services beyond the seas,'
includes Lawrence Bellew of , County of Louth.

LORD BELLEW'S INFANTRY.

629

Besides the three Bellews, officers in this Eegiraent,
there were eleven others commissioned on this Army
List. In King James's Parliament of 1689 Lord
Bellew sat as one of the Peers, while in the Commons
Thomas Bellew was one of the Representatives for
the County of Louth. On the 3rd of July in that
year the Duke of Berwick wrote to General Hamil-
ton, then besieging Derry, "I marched yesterday
morning from Newtown- Stewart, and joining Sunder-
land at 'Omey,' I marched hither (Trelick)........My

advance guard cut off several of their sentries, and
pushed a great many of the Rebels' party with such
vigour as they beat, with thirty dragoons, three troops
of Horse of theirs, which were drawn up at a distance
from us. Captain Patrick 4 Belue' (i. e. Bellew of
this Regiment) and Major 'Magdonnel' commanded
the van-guard. There was eight or nine of the enemy
killed, but none of ours."* Schomberg, soon after he
landed in Ulster, garrisoned Lord Bellew's Castle
near Dundalk. "At our coming to Dundalk," (in
September, 1689), writes Story, "we got about 2,000
of Lord Bellew's sheep, which came in very good time
to the army, for it had gone hard with us before, for
want of provisions."! During this sojourn of Schom-
berg, three of his Colonels, dying of distemper, were
interred in Lord Bellew's vault at Dundalk, but they
were taken up on the Irish regaining possession of
the place, and interred at the church door.J In

* MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin, F 2, 19.

t Story's Impartial History, pt. 1, p. 19. \ Idem, p. 36.

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1690, Thomas Bellew was one of the Deputy Lieu-
tenants of the County of Meath, as was Roger Bellew
of that of Louth. The Inquisitions of 1691 include
Richard Lord Bellew, with eighteen other Bellews.
In 1696, this Richard Lord Bellew preferred his peti-
tion for pardon, grounded on allegations and proofs
which were admitted, and he afterwards sat in the
House of Peers in 1707. His sister was the wife of
Denis Kelly of Aughrim, who was long a state pri-
soner in the Tower of London. John, the eldest son of
Sir Patrick Bellew of Barmeath, had also at this time
a pardon under the Great Seal. At the Court of
Chichester House in 1700, various claims were pre-
ferred as affecting the Meath estates of Thomas Bel-
lew of Gafhey and Dundalk.

[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NICHOLAS
FITZGERALD.]

This officer does not appear on the present Army
List, but his appointment is mentioned in Graham's
Derriana (p. 36). Of the family name, see post, "Sir
John Fitzgerald's Infantry."

[MAJOR JOHN 'DOWDELE.']

Neither is his name on this Army List, but is sup-
plied from King's State of the Protestants, Appendix.
Of the family, see ante, at the Royal Infantry.

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631

CAPTAIN COLIN HANLON.

The O'Hanlons were Tanists of a large territory
within the present County of Armagh, and up to the
time of James the First enjoyed the honor and office
of Hereditary Standard-bearer of Ulster — a privilege
which Sir William Kussel, when Lord Deputy, with
due policy recognised ; as, marching against O'Neill
and the Northern insurgents, he committed the royal
standard, (which the O'Mulloy had carried through
the Pale), to Hugh O'Hanlon, who had theretofore
submitted to English government. In 1314, King
Edward directed an especial letter missive to Neill
O'Hanlon, ' Duci Hibernorum de Erther] for his aid
in the Scottish war. In 1337, on the violation of a
peace existing between the Crown and Donald O'Han-
lon, a Commission was directed to enquire into the
circumstances of such disruption, and in 1346 it was
provided, that he should be taken under the protec-
tion of the King. In the reign of James the First,
encroachments having been made, in the working out
of the Plantation of Ulster, on the estates of Patrick
O'Hanlon, who was at the time a pensioner of the
King, he petitioned the Privy Council of England, who
in 1605 thereupon ordered that he should be re-
stored to his lands in the County of Tyrone ; and that
an equivalent in lands should be given to him, in
lieu of any injury he may have received by the
erection of Fort-Norris on his land ; and that the
pension granted to him by the late Queen should be

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continued. In the same year Sir Oghy O'Hanlon
was one of the Ulster forfeitors ; and, as his lands
adjoined the fort and castle of Moyry, County of
Armagh, a certain portion was allotted towards the
maintenance of its garrison ; but a subsequent patent
provided that it "might be lawful for O'Hanlon and his
heirs to possess it and the lands thereto assigned, so
long as it should continue without a ward. In 1612,
Turlogh Groome O'Hanlon and others of his Sept had
grants of other premises in their old County of Ar-
magh, to hold for ever subject to the conditions of the
Plantation of Ulster. Eedmund O'Hanlon had about
the same time licence to surrender his lands, with the
object of receiving a re-grant thereof from King
James. The memorable Act by which Ulster was de-
clared confiscated, and its leading chiefs were attaint-
ed, included "Oghy Oge O'Hanlon, eldest son of the
said Sir Oghy O'Hanlon, Knight, late of Tovergy,
County of Armagh."

The Attainders of 1642 present but the name of
Fyrmyn 'O'Hanlyn' of Castlemore, County of Cork.
Those of 1691 comprise Shane Bane O'Hanlon, Oghy
O'Hanlon, Phelim Mc Edmund Teigue O'Hanlon,
Bryan Mac Oghy O'Hanlon, all of Tyrone'sditch,
County of Armagh. Phelimy Mc Patrick Oge
O'Hanlon of Clara, Kedmond of Phecos and Roger of
Tonragee,all in said County ; with John Hanlon, clerk,
and Patrick Hanlon, both of Carlingford, County of
Louth.

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633

LIEUTENANT THADY CROWLEY AND
ENSIGN DANIEL CROWLEY.

The O'Crowleys were a Sept of Cork, who, in Smith's
History of that County, are said to have branched
from the McDermots ofMoylurg. In the Munster
war of Elizabeth's time, the Crowleys, then styled of
Carberry, sought and obtained the protection of the
Lord President, and continued loyal until the landing
of the Spaniards.* The Attainders of 1641 include
twenty-six members of the family, all of this County.
Those of 1691 comprised the above Thady Crowley,
described as of Temple-brien, County of Cork, with
eight others of the name, but some differently spelt.

LIEUTENANT JOHN HALFPENNY.

This name does not appear on the Attainders of 1691,
while on those of 1641 are Cornelius Halfpenny of
Angestown, and Terence Halfpenny of Roestown,
County of Meath, with John Halfpenny Oge of Lusk.
It is not improbable that this John Halfpenny, then
young (Oge), may, with inveterate fidelity to the
Stuart, have been the above Lieutenant.

* Pacata Hibernia, p. 138.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

SIR VALENTINE BROWNE, NOW LORD KENMARE.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

His Lordship,

Colonel.

Lieut.-Colonel. .

Major.

William Reeves. Thomas Carter.

[Daniel O'Donovan.]

Garrett 'Neagle.'

[Christopher Fagan.]

It would seem that this Regiment, thus imperfectly set down, was after-
wards incorporated with that of Colonel Nicholas Browne, but all efforts to
obtain information from the family have failed.

COLONEL LORD KENMARE.

In 1555, Sir Valentine Browne of Crofts in Lincoln-
shire was Auditor-General of Ireland, and, dying in
1567, left Sir Valentine his son and heir, who in
1583 received instructions, jointly with Sir Henry
Wallop, from the Queen, relative to the escheated
lands of Munster, on the Plantation of which Pro-
vince he wrote a 'Discourse.' In 1588, he repaired
to Ireland with his son Nicholas, and in the same
year obtained from Donald, Earl of Clancarre, a
grant in the nature of a mortgage of various castles,
towns, lands, &c. in the County of Desmond. This
Sir Valentine had issue, besides the aforesaid Sir

LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY.

635

Nicholas, Sir Thomas Browne of Hospital, County of
Limerick, his eldest son. The former, described as of
Molahiffe and Rosse, County of Kerry, married Julia,
daughter of O'Sullivan Beare, and died in 1616. His
eldest son, Sir Valentine, (whose wardship had been
committed to Sir Geoffry Fenton in 1607*) preferred
a Petition to King James the First, for an abatement
of some of the yearly rent reserved on that part of his
estate, which he held from the Crown as an Under-
taker, at £113 6s. 8d., "in regard of the small profit
he made of it, being set out in the most barren and
remote part of the County of Kerry, and having so
hard a rate imposed upon it, that unless he was
relieved by his Majesty's favour, he should not be
able to inhabit there, and perform the articles of
Plantation to which he was bound." This rent was
accordingly in 1612 abated to £53 18s. 6d., and the
tenure was afterwards converted into a fee. Sir
Valentine was in 1621 further created a Baronet.
He married, to his first wife, a daughter of that Earl
of Desmond who was beheaded in 1583 : his grandson
by her was another Sir Valentine, the above officer
and third Baronet.

Those of this name attainted in 1642 were Nicholas
Browne, described as 4 of Leixlip,' and Richard
Browne of Athboy, merchant. Of the Confederate
Catholics assembled at Kilkenny, were Edward and
Geoffry Browne of G-alway, and Sylvester Browne of
Dublin. This Geoffry Browne was, by the denun-

* Rot. Pat. in Cane. Ilib.

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ciation of Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted from
pardon for life and estate ; as was also John Browne
of the Neale, County of Mayo. (See of these Brownes,
post , Colonel Dominick Browne's Infantry). The
Royal declaration of thanks of 1662 includes Sir
Valentine Browne, Knight, Thomas Browne of the
Baronies of Bear and Bantry, and Colonel William
Browne of Mulrankin, County of Wexford.

Colonel Sir Valentine Browne was of King James's
Privy Council, and was, by patent of 20th May, 1689,
created Baron of Castleross and Viscount Kenmare ; a
proof that this Army List was drawn up subsequent
to that date, as he is here described as of such a
recent creation. He sat by this title at the Parlia-
ment of Dublin in that year, while John Browne of
Ardagh was one of the Representatives for the
Borough of Tralee. Besides this Colonel, (who was
taken prisoner at Aughrim*) other Brownes com-
manded Infantry Regiments in this campaign and
service, as Colonel Nicholas Browne, the son of Lord
Kenmare, in whose Regiment it will be seen John
Browne was a Lieutenant. Colonel Dominick Browne
had, under him, Andrew Browne a Captain, and
another Andrew a Lieutenant ; while Brownes were
commissioned in six other Regiments. The Attain-
ders of 1691 record the names of twenty-six Brownes,
including Patrick of Mulrankin, County of Wexford,
where the name was so anciently established that
Laurence 'Bron' was one of the Representatives of the

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138.

LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY. 637

Borough of Wexford in King Edward's Parliament of
1376. .

The above Colonel Nicholas had married Jane, only-
daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Plunkett of Bal-
rath, County of Meath, by whom he had five sons
and four daughters ; his eldest son being Colonel
Nicholas, hereafter mentioned. He died in 1694,
having by his will of 1690 directed his burial "in the
monument himself had built some years past in the
Church of Killeen; or, if he died in the County of
Kerry or near it, then with his own dear and affec-
tionate wife Jane, Lady Kenmare, in the parish church
of Killarney , with his parents and other relations."*

' Browne's ' was the style of a Free Company in the
Brigades, and the name has been signally distinguish-
ed in the military annals of the Continent, in Austria,
Italy, Hungary, Transylvania, Russia, and Styria.
Ulysses Maximilian, Count Brown, was a memorable
individual in the Austrian service. He was born in
1705, educated at the Diocesan school of his native
City, Limerick, and, when ten years old, was invited
to Hungary by his uncle, Count Browne, who com-
manded an Infantry Regiment there. He was pre-
sent at the siege of Belgrade in 1717, was a Colonel
in 1725, and in 1730, with his uncle, invested
Corsica. In 1739, the Emperor Charles VI. for his
services raised him to the dignity of a Field-Marshal
and Member of the Aulic Council of war. On the
Coronation of the Empress Queen of Bohemia in 1743,

* Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 7, pp. 54, &c, n.

638 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

she appointed Brown one of her Privy Councillors, and
in 1752 nominated him Generalissimo of all her
forces ; while the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony,
in the following year invested him with the order of
the White Eagle. At the memorable battle of Prague
in 1757, this hero received a wound of which he
expired in two months. He had married in 1726 a
Countess of illustrious lineage in Bohemia, by whom
he had issue two sons. His Life was published in

two volumes at Prague in the year of his death.

General Count Browne, Governor-general of Livonia,
signalized himself by uncommon bravery at the bat-
tle of Zerndorf. He married the daughter of Field-
Marshal Lacy, by whom he had issue General and
Colonel Browne, now (writes Ferrar,* in 1787) in the
Emperors service.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM REEVES.

No particulars of this family, applicable to the period,
have been ascertaiDed.

CAPTAIN DANIEL O'DONOVAN.

Full notices of this family are given post, at Colonel
Daniel O'Donovan. Here it may be mentioned, that
the commission of this Captain Daniel bears date
from Dublin Castle, 1st January, 1688.

* History of Limerick, p. 349.

LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY.

639

CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER FAGAN.

Very fall particulars of this family have been given,
ante, p. 423, &c. at the name of Captain Richard
Fagan of the King's Own Infantry Regiment. This
Christopher was his cousin, fought at Aughrim, was
included in the benefit of the Articles of Limerick,
purchased property in Kerry, and married Mary,
daughter of Patrick Nagle of Ballinamona Castle, by
Catherine, daughter of Hugh De Lacy of Bruff,
County of Limerick. He settled in Kerry, and,
dying in 1740, was buried in the Abbey of Killarney.
His grandson and namesake Christopher entered the
French army in 1755, in which he distinguished
himself and bore the style of the Chevalier de Fagan ;
but, by his attachment to Royalty, he too lost, on
the breaking out of the Revolution, what he had
acquired there, and died in London in 1816, at the
advanced age of eighty-three. Christopher, his eldest
son, a Captain in Dillon's French Brigade, afterwards
entered the English service, and died unmarried in
the West Indies. Charles, his brother, married a
Marchioness, daughter of a Grandee of Spain of the
First Class, and by Royal permission bore the title of
Count de Fagan ; he died in 1813.* A brother of
Christopher, the aforesaid Chevalier de Fagan, was
John Fagan of Kiltallah, County of Kerry, who mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of George Hickson of Tralee,
by Mary, only daughter of Henry Gould, Esq., of

* Burke's Landed Gentry.

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Cork ; and he had by her six sons, five of whom
entered military service in the armies of the East
India Company. The sixth, Robert Fagan, entered
the British service, was wounded in the assault of
Bona-Fortuna in the island of Martinico, in 1802,
and fell in the following year at the taking of St.
Lucia. Of the five who served in India, James
Patrick Fagan is the survivor. He was engaged in
the arduous campaigns under Sir Robert Abercrombie
against the French islands in the Indian Seas, and in
that against Nepaul, in the capacity of Brigade-Major
to the advance division of the army; for which ser-
vice he received the war medal, and was nominated
Paymaster-in-Chief to all the troops constituting the
Raypoolana and Malwah field forces. This appoint-
ment he held for sixteen years, when he was com-
pelled to return for his health to Europe, having
received a gratifying acknowledgment of his services,
in a special report from Lord William Bentinck, then
Governor-General. He and his brothers, while in
India, were called ' the military family.' Lieutenant-
Colonel Fagan (as he now ranks), being anxious to
continue this designation in his line, has placed two
of his sons in the Indian army.

The second son of the above Captain Christopher
Fagan was Stephen Fagan, a merchant of Cork,
whose son James married Ellen, daughter of Ignatius
Trant, Esq., lineal descendant of Sir Patrick Trant,
whose attainder and confiscations are mentioned post,
at Major-General Boiseleau's Regiment. The present

LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY.

641

William Fagan, a member of Parliament for the City
of Cork, is the eldest son of that marriage.

LIEUTENANT THOMAS CARTER.

The name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the First ; but nothing has been ascertained
concerning this officer or his kindred about the period.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

CHRISTOPHER, LORD SLANTS.

Captains. Lieutenants.

The Colonel. Ignatius Nagle.

[Maurice O'Connell,

Lieutenant-Colonel.]
Major.

feted E*.

Lucas Everard.

Bartholomew Cusack.

Christopher Cusack.

^ Simon Donnelly.

Richard Uriall.
Walter Usher.

This Regiment, so imperfect at the date of this List, was reported after
the Battle of the Boyne as comprising thirteen companies, with a total of
G50 men.*

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2. p. 513.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER FLEMING, LORD
SLANE.

Richard le Fleming, son of Archibald Fleming of
Devonshire, attended Hugh de Lacy to Ireland, and
got from him, within the Palatinate of Meath, twenty
Knights' Fees, afterwards called the Baronies of Slane
and Newcastle. This grant constituted Richard,
according to the powers of the Palatine, one of his
Barons or Magnates. " In 1176," say the Four Mas-
ters, " the Castle of Slane, which was occupied by
Richard Fleming and his forces, (and from which he
was in the habit of making predatory incursions into
Oriel [Louth, Monaghan, and Armagh], and Ry
Briun [in Tyrone], and against the men of Meath),
was plundered by Melaghlin, son of Mac Laughlin
of Kinel-Owen [County of Tyrone], at the head of the
Kinel-Owen and the people of Oriel. They slew
about five hundred or more of the English and their
horses, and not one person escaped with his life from
the Castle. Richard Fleming was slain on that
occasion." When Edward the Second summoned
the Magnates of Ireland to aid him in the Scottish
war, he directed a letter missive to Baldwin le Fle-
ming, who had married Matilda, daughter of Simon
de Geneville. He was summoned to the Parliament
of Kilkenny in 1302, and died in the year 1335 ;
but details of a name of such historic interest must
here, though reluctantly, be declined.

The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Wil-

LORD SLANE'S INFANTRY.

643

Ham, Lord Baron of Slane, James Fleming of Slane
and Stahalmock, County of Meath ; Thomas Fleming
of Cavan ; George of Blakestown, County of Kildare ;
and Christopher of Clonefean, County of Dublin.
Thomas of Cabragh was one of the Confederate
Catholics who constituted the Supreme Council of
Kilkenny ; and in 1652, the then Baron of Slane
was, by Cromwell's Act, excepted from pardon for
life and estate. In January, 1685-6, the Earl of
Clarendon applied to the Earl of Sunderland, for his
interest to obtain a vacant cornetcy in Colonel Ha-
milton's Regiment for Mr. Eichard Fleming, "who
is a very worthy young man, and well deserves his
Majesty's countenance ; besides the favour it will be
to me, your Lordship will oblige a very good man in
England, Sir Eichard Bellings, to whom this young
gentleman is nephew ;"* a request which met with
the usual cautious postponement. In 1687, Sir John
Fleming was Sheriff of the County of Monaghan.
Henry Fleming, the brother of this Lord Slane, was
a Captain in Galmoy's Horse. The Lord himself sat
in King James's Parliament of 1689. He fought at
the battle of the Boyne, in a few days after which the
Lady Anne, Baroness of Slane, came to Dublin, then
in the hands of King William, and threw herself on
his mercy for a pass for herself, three men, and three
servants.f ^er l°rc^ however, persevering in his
adherence to King James, was taken prisoner at

* Singer's Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 223.

f Thorpe's Catalogue of the Southwell MSS., p. 234.

TT 2

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Aughrim.* He was attainted in 1691, when his
estates were granted to the Earl of Athlone, who sub-
sequently assigned them in portions to eight other
individuals ; while, at the sale of the forfeitures in
1703, the manor, castle, and lands of Slane were pur-
chased by Brigadier Henry Conyngham. The land-
less lord followed the monarch of his adoption to
France, where he remained until, in 1708, he had a
pension of £500 per annum allowed to him, and was
restored to his honours, but not to his estates, by
Queen Anne. In 1713, he was advanced in the
Peerage to be Viscount Longford, but no patent
issued, and he died in France in 1726, leaving a
daughter, Helen Fleming, his only issue, who died in
Paris, 7th August, 1748, unmarried. Captain Pich-
ard, son of the aforesaid Sir John Fleming, was
killed at the siege of Deny ; and it appears by his
attainder, post mortem, in 1694, that he had been
possessed of very considerable estates in the County of
Monaghan. The Attainders of 1691 included with
Lord Slane, John Fleming of Stahalmock, Knight,
who is stated by the Inquisition taken on his out-
lawry, at the close of 1690, to have been personally
engaged at the battle of the Boyne.

At the Court of Claims in 1700, Sir Stephen Pice,
on behalf of Ellen, the only daughter of the Lady
Anne Slane, claimed for her a portion and maintenance
off Lord Slane's Meath estate, but his application was
dismissed for non-prosecution ; he also claimed for Lady

* Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 437.

LORD SLANE'S INFANTRY.

645

Anne herself, and was allowed £200 per ann. during
the life of Christopher Lord Slane, and £800 per ann.
as her jointure on his decease ; William Fleming
claimed, as son and heir of Thomas, who was one of
the sons of William, late Lord Slane, an estate tail in
the Meath, Louth, Cavan, and Monaghan estates of
the above Lord Christopher ; as did Michael Fleming
a remainder in tail in the castle, manor, towns, and
lands of Slane ; but both these petitions were also
dismissed for non-prosecution. The obituary of the
Gentleman's Magazine of 17 '47 notices the then recent
death, but without precise date, of " William Fleming,
commonly called Lord Slane, who had an annual
pension of £300 from his Majesty. His uncle, to
whom he was heir, had forfeited an estate of £25,000
per annum for adhering to King James the Second,
whom he followed to France; but being ill-treated there
and in Spain, returned to England, where he obtained
a pension from Queen Anne and a Eegiment on the
Irish establishment ; but he died not long after."
This William, who so assumed the title, left a son
Christopher, also commonly called Lord Slane, and
he too died without issue male, in 1772.

[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MAURICE
O'CONNELL.]

His name was put upon the Roll after the drawing
up of this list; notices of him have been therefore

KINC JA.MKs's IRISH A KM V LIST.

referred to the officer of the name who is upon it —
Captain Morgan Council of Colonel Charles O'Biyan'fi
I nfantry, post

LIEUTENANT JAMES DONNELLY.

The Four Masters record in 1177 the death of Giolla
Mac Liag O'Dongaile (Donnelly), Chief of Ferdroma,
a territory within the precincts of Donegal. He, with
many other Chiefs of the north of Ireland, fell in
resisting the invasion of the chivalrous but cruel
John de Conrcy. There is in Tyrone a district which
took its name, Bally-Donnelly, from this Sept ;
and O'Heerin, in his topographical work on Ireland,
locates Chiefs of this family in Tipperary. In 1641,
Daniel O'Donnelly, described as of Pitchfordstpwn,
County of Kildare, was the only individual of this name
attainted. In 1687, Terence Donnelly was Sheriff of
Tyrone; and, in the Parliament of 1689, Patrick
Donnelly of Dungannon was one of the Kepresentatives
of the Borough of Dungannon, as was David O'Don-
nelly one of those for that of Strabane. The
Attainders of 1691 include the name of the above
officer, thereon described as James O'Donnelly of
Bauehran, County of Tyrone, with fourteen others in
that County, four in Armagh, and one in Dublin.

LORD SLANE'S INFANTRY.

647

ENSIGN BICHABD UKIALL.

This name, now of rare occurrence, is yet to be found
on Irish record from the time of Edward the Third.
In that of Henry the Fifth, James 4 Uriel' was
appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S.

Lieutenants.

Henry Smyth.

Thomas O'Neill.

Cormuck M'Gill.

Oliver O'Hagan.

Daniel Makay.

Daniel O'Donnell.

Alexander Stewart.

Cormuck M'Quillan.

( Hngh Magennis.
I Henry O'Neill.

Edward M 'Conway.

John Gernon.

{ DonaghyM'Gunsh<
I Bryan M'Cann.

John O'Hagan.

Arthur O'Hara.

Con. O'Dogherty.

Bryan O'Cahane.

Bryan M'Manus.

Patrick O'Sheale.
Edmund M'llderry.

Ensigns.

James Walsh.

James O'Crilly.
Neill M'Gill.
Cormuck O'Hagan.
Bryan O'Connor.
Maurice O'Hagarty.
Alexander Stewart.
Theo. M'Quillan,

\ -

Terence M' Conway.
John Clements.

Myles M'Namee.

James O'Hagan.
Manus O'Hara.
John O'Dogherty.
Donoghy O'Cahane.

Darhy O'Cahane.

Cormuck M'Cann.
Art O'Neill.

]

Captains.

The Colonel.

Felix O'Neill,

Lieutenant-Coloneh

James O'Neill.

Arthur M'Gill.

Cormuck O'Hagan.

Thomas M'Naughton.

Daniel Hagarty.

William Stewart.

Ross M'Quillan.

Henry O'Neill,
Grenad.

Bryan O'Neill.

John Clements.

Con O'Neill,

Art O'Hagan.

Cormuck O'Hara.

Robert Butler.

Thomas O'Cahane.

Henry Courtney.
Roger O'Cahane.

Bryan O'Neill.

Con O'Neill.

Daniel O'Hagan.

Peter Dohin.

Christopher Russell.

Hugh O'Gribbin.

Art O'Harane.

Thomas Dobin.
Edmund Savage.
Christopher Fleming.

Hen. Savage.
Patrick O'Harane.

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COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL.

This family of native Royalty has been fully noticed, ante,
p. 557, &c, at the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry. Colonel
Cormuck, as there suggested, resided at Broughshane
in the County of Antrim, was Sheriff of that County in
1687, one of its Representatives in 1689, and was
outlawed in 1691. At the commencement of this cam-
paign a part of this Regiment was despatched with the
Earl of Antrim's to strengthen the garrison of Carrick-
fergus.*

CAPTAIN ARTHUR McGILL.

This officer appears by the description in his
attainder of 1691 to have been of Carryroan, County
of Antrim. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Hugh
Colvill preferred a petition for the reversion of a
chattel interest, which this Arthur held in that
county, and the claim was allowed. Rory Magill of
Larne and Bryan Magill also forfeited lands in same
county.

CAPTAINS ART, CORMUCK, AND DANIEL
O'HAGAN.

Tins ancient Sept were Chiefs of Tullaghoge, within
* Mackenzie's Siege of Deny, p. 11.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

the present Barony of Dungannon, County of Tyrone.
They were amongst those hereditary Tanists who
assisted at the inauguration of the O'Neills, successive
Princes of that country ; and Sir Nicholas Malby, in
a Eeport on the state of Ireland which he made to
Queen Elizabeth in 1579, describes this O'Hagan as
one of the principal men of note in that country.
True to the O'Neill, they attended him subsequently in
the Munster war, and were engaged at the battle of
Kinsale. The Act of 1612 for the attainder of this
great Chief accordingly included, in the visitation of
its penalties, John Opanty O'Hagan, late of Dungan-
non, with Henry and Teigue O'Hagan of the same
place. The above officers are described in the Inqui-
sition taken on their attainder, Art as of Dungannon,
and Cormuck and Daniel of the County of London-
derry. Five others of this Sept were then likewise
outlawed in the latter County.

CAPTAIN THOMAS McNAUGHTON.

This officer is described on the Inquisition for his
attainder as 6 of Kiltimurry, County of Antrim.'

CAPTAIN DANIEL HAGARTY.

The O'Hagartys were another Ulster Sept sub-feuda-
tory to the O'Neill, under whose leadership Maolmura

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 651

O'Hagarty fought and fell at the battle of Kinsale.
The Attainders of 1691 have but two of the name
both of this Province ; James Hagarty of Pennyburn-
Mill, County of Londonderry, and William Hagarty
of Tyrehugh, County of Donegal, clerk.- A Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Hagarty in Lally's Regiment was
wounded in 1747, at the battle of Lauffield, having
so distinguished himself as to merit a pension of
1,200 francs thenceforth from the King of France.*

CAPTAIN WILLIAM STEWART.

The Inquisition, taken on the attainder of this officer,
describes him as of Dundermod, County of Antrim ;
the only other then attainted individual of the name
being George ' Stuart' of Lisnadevin, in the same
County.

CAPTAIN ROSS Mc QUILLAN.

The Mc Quillans were Lords of the Territory of the
Routes in the County of Antrim, holding their chief
residence in the fine old sea-girt Castle of Dunluce.
They are considered to have been themselves invaders
from Wales on earlier inhabitants of the North. With-
in that county, not far from the Ravel-water, are
the ruins of another castle at Clough, traditionally

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 404.

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believed to have been in very remote times also a
chief seat of the Mc Quillan, until dispossessed by the
Mc Donnells, after a great battle fought between them
near the mountain of Ora. This castle stood upon a
high insulated basaltic rock about twenty feet above the
level of the surrounding ground, and was encompassed
by a foss. According to the same local traditions, it
was burnt in 1641, with a hostility that left standing
only a noble gateway, about twenty feet high and
fourteen wide, with its mortar work five feet in thick-
ness and powerfully cemented ; the ruin is surround-
ed on every side by forts. When Edward Bruce,

in 1315 invading Ireland, encamped before the Castle
of Carrickfergus, ten or twelve of the petty Princes
of the North came in to him and proffered their
allegiance ; amongst whom was the Mc Quillan.
In 1358, say the Four Masters, died Senechan
Mc Quillan, who, in the existing native government,
ranked High Constable of Ulster ;* and the death of
Slevin Mc Quillan in ten years after is commemorated
by these historians with the same title, as hereditary.
Succeeding annals are filled with narratives of active
and melancholy feuds between the O'Neills, O'Don-
nells, and O'Cahanes on the one side, and the
Mc Quillans on the other. On the 13th July, 1563,
was fought the battle of Ora, before alluded to, be-
tween the Mc Donnells, headed by Sorle-buy, and the
Mc Quillans, headed by Conway Mc Quillan, whose

* Annals of the Four Masters,

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 653

tomb is still pointed out by the people at Ardagh, in
the parish of Kamoan.

An interesting existing manuscript, of modern date
(1823), but compiled from ancient papers of authority,
commences a history of this family from Edward
Mc Quillan, who was born in 1503, and ranked as
Prince of Dalaridia for seventy years, during five
reigns of English Sovereigns. On the Plantation of
Ulster, his estates were seised by the Crown. "The
King," says the manuscript, "as sensible of the in-
justice done to the Mc Quillan in depriving him of
his estate, offered him the lands of O'Doherty, Prince
of Inishowen, in lieu of them; but Mc Quillan refused
to accept thereof, indignantly saying he would not
take lands belonging to another man ; that, as he was
not attainted, he still expected to get his own, and
that all the claim Mc Donnell had to the lands
was his being married to Mc Quillan's daughter."
Edward did not outlive the Plantation ; his decease

occurred at the very advanced age of 102 He

was descended from Feidlim Fionn Mac Quillan, who
was descended from Fiach Mac Quillan, a son of Niall
of the Nine Hostages "I believe," adds the com-
piler of the document (Edward Mc Quillan, born in
1760), "that my great-grandfather was the first of
the family who conformed to the established religion,
with his two youngest sons; Richard, my grandfather,
and his youngest brother, Charles ; but his eldest
daughter, Mary, was so steadfast in the Romish reli-
gion, that she went to Spain before the battle of the

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Boyne, and became there Maid of Honour to the
Queen, an office which she filled to the day of her
death, when she left a fortune, to which I am heir,
if it could be got. Her two eldest brothers were
strict Catholics also (one, it may be presumed, the
above Captain Eoss), and followed the fortunes of
King James the Second, the grandson of him who
deprived the family of their principality. They were
in Limerick at the time of the siege, and intending
to follow the King to France, when, in the very act
of taking leave of their brother officers, one of them
was killed by a cannon ball. The other went to
France, and served with distinction in the Irish
Brigade, as did also his son Lewis Mc Quillan, who
died at Versailles some time previous to the year
1766, leaving a large property to the nearest heir
of the name of McQuillan and House of Dunluce.
This my father went to France to seek ; when he went
to the Jesuits' College at Versailles, there to prefer
his claim (they being the trustees to the property of
all officers of the Irish Brigade in France) ; but the
kingdom was then in a ferment on account of the ex-
pulsion of these Jesuits ; he was arrested, and all his
papers taken from him, amongst which was a pedigree
of the Mc Quillans, as long as the third chapter of

Luke The McDonnells, who got a great part of

our lands, wish it to be believed that the Mc Quillan
family is extinct, and really they were nearly extin-
guished by the Mc Donnells, as shown in these
Memoirs ; but they are not yet extinct, for there are

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 655

several of them living in Ireland, and when I last
heard from America, my brother had two sons and
one grandson living ; and I have also two sons living
and two daughters, and all my children comfortably
settled." The Memoir concludes with the attestation,
" As my family was never attainted, my blood is
legally pure, and I am the legitimate lineal hereditary
(in abeyance) Prince of Dalaridia ; though I now
subscribe myself only plain Edward Mac Quillan, this
11th of 12th Mo. 1823, being the completion of
my 63rd year." The son of that Edward, Joseph Mc
Quillan, is now living in the County of Wexford.

Previous patents of James the First record pardons
passed to several members of this Sept; and, yet more,
a grant in 1608 of the territory of Clinaghartie in
Lower Clandeboy, County of Antrim, comprising
twenty-one extensive townlands, with all heredita-
ments, advowsons, &c. of churches, formerly belong-
ing to any religious houses therein ; the Mc Quillan
being bound to find and maintain every year, for the
space of forty days, two able horsemen and six foot-
men to serve the King, Lord Deputy, or Governor of
Carrickfergus, whenever required within the Province
of Ulster, and to answer all risings out and general
hostings. In 1619, however, a royal letter was
issued for a surrender of this territory from the
patentee, and in truth the family were so utterly
despoiled, that the name does not appear on the Out-
lawries either of 1641 or 1691, with the exception of a
James Mc Quillan, who forfeited on the latter occasion,

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

when Hugh Colville claimed at Chichester House a
chattel remainder in the lands of Attefathaw, County
of Antrim, as forfeited by said James.

CAPTAIN JOHN CLEMENTS.

Nothing worthy of note has been ascertained of this
officer or his family.

CAPTAIN COEMUCK O'HARA.

Tins very ancient Sept is spoken of very fully, ante, p.
467, &c. In 1614, Teigue O'Hara had a grant of
the castle, town, and lands of Coolany (Coolooney),
with upwards of one hundred townlands, stated to
have been parcels of the estate of Teagh Temple
(Temple House), with sundry chief-rents and moduses,
fairs, courts, &c. In the ensuing confiscations on
the civil war of 1641, no less than thirteen O'Haras
were forfeiting proprietors within the Barony of
Leney, but the name of Teigue does not appear
amongst them. In 1661, Margaret, daughter of
Thady O'Hara of Crebilly, by Catherine, sister to
Daniel O'Neill, page of honor to King Charles the
Second, was married to the third Viscount Netter-
ville.*

Besides this Captain, John 4 Hara ' was a Lieute-

* Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 4, p. 216.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 657

nant in Colonel Dominick Browne's Infantry. The
latter was of the Sligo stock, and is described in the
Inquisition on his attainder as John O'Hara of Clon-
acule, County of Sligo ; as is the former of Loughdale,
County of Antrim. Daniel O'Hara of the same place
was then also attainted, as were Teigue of Crebilly,
and John his son ; John of Ballynahinch, County of
Down ; Eoger of Montagh, County of Sligo ; and Ar-
thur O'Hara of Faris, County of Antrim. In 1703,
the confiscated estates of the aforesaid John O'Hara
of Ballynahinch, and of a Kean O'Hara in the County
of Antrim, were sold to the Hollow Swords' Blades
Company. The Baronage of Tyrawley was, after the
Revolution, conferred on an O'Hara, as was that of
Kilmain on James O'Hara, ante, p. 469. History
records the achievements of Governor O'Hara in
Senegal in 1766 ; of Admiral and Captain O'Hara in
the following year ; of Captain O'Hara in Africa in
1770, and in the French service in 1777 ; but all
further notices of them are inadmissible here.

CAPTAINS FRANCIS AND ROGER
O'CAHANE.

Tins Sept claims descent from Niall of the Nine
Hostages, the King of Ireland who brought St.
Patrick a captive from France to its shores. They
constituted one of the most powerful families of
ancient Dalaradia in Ulster, from whence passed out

Till

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the emigrants who colonised Scotland, conquered the
Picts, and established a Kingdom there, which, in
memory of their old home, was named Dalriada.
From them descended the line of Scottish Kings —
the Stuart, for whose service the present Army List
was drawn up. In the earliest Annals of Ireland,
Dalriada and the O'Cahanes are associated with
events of chivalrous and romantic interest. At
Dunseverick, on the northern coast of Antrim, upon
a rock over the sea, amidst the basaltic wonders of the
Giant's Causeway, was erected their castle ; its im-
posing ruins still remain.

On the earliest adoption of surnames in Ireland,
Eogan O'Cahan is recorded an Abbot in the County
of Galway, A.D. 980. In 1145, died Sluaghdeach
O'Cahane, ' Bishop of the people of Leighlin.' In
1192, a porch of the black church of St. Columbkill
was built by O'Cahane of the Crieve, (i.e. the Barony
of Coleraine), soon after which this powerful Sept
possessed themselves of the greater part of the County
of Deny, thence called the O'Cahane's Country. In
1244, Henry the Third requested the attendance and
assistance of the O'Cahane in his projected war. In
1314, King Edward directed a special letter missive to
Dermod O'Cahane, ' Daci Hibernorum de Femetreeve]
for military service in Scotland. Associated with the
O'Neill, the McGenis, O'Hanlon, McMahon, Maguire,
and other Chiefs of Ulster, under the command of
Eichard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster,* the O'Cahane em-

* Rot. Scot. 7, Edw. 2 in Tur. L.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 659

barked from Droglieda for Scotland. In 1338, David
McOghy O'4 Kyne' sued out a patent of pardon and
protection. This was the first recorded conversion of
the name towards that by which it is latterly

frequently known Kyan. Before this time, a

monastery was founded by the O'Cahan at Dungiven,
which became thenceforth the burial place of the
family, and still exhibits monuments of sculptured
ornament commemorative of them. One is particu-
larly alluded to in a note of Dr. 0'Donovran to the
Four Masters, ad ann. 1385. About the middle of
the fourteenth century, Angus 4 Oge' (the younger),
Lord of the Isles, married the daughter of the
O'Cahane ;* and in 1537, Cornelius O'Cahane was
Bishop of Eaphoe.

Amongst the State Papers, temp. Henry the Eighth,
is a Eeport of 1542, from the Lord Deputy of Ireland
and his Council to the King, in which it is written,
" Now, as to the further occurrences of this your
realm, for as much as one McQuillan, which is an
Englishman (they claim to be of Welsh descent), and
now submitted to your Majesty's obedience, is invaded
by one called O'Cahan, by the aid as it is supposed
of O'Donnell his galloglas, we have therefore sent
John Travers, with a convenient number of horsemen
and footmen, to the aid of the same McQuillan, as well
for that the same O'Cahane, which never yet showed
any obedience to your Majesty, should not destroy the
said McQuillan, as also to give courage to others

* Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 7, p. 111.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

that have in like sort submitted themselves to your
obedience as McQuillan has done, shall in like case be
aided if they persist in their due allegiance/'* At
the close of this year, Manus O'Cahane, then the
Chief, renewed his submission to the King, and signed
an indenture of peace, a copy of which is preserved in
the Lambeth MSS.f In 1558, George Dowdall, the
first Archbishop of Armagh after the Eeformation,
urged, in a letter to the Viceroy, the policy of expelling
the Hebridean Scots from Ulster, by procuring their
Irish neighbours, O'Neill, O'Donnell, O'Cahane, and
others, to unite against them. He further relied that
the power of the Scots in Ireland proceeded princi-
pally, from the Irish Chiefs engaging them as their
auxiliaries in their private quarrels ; a practice to the
suppression of which the Primate earnestly directed
the attention of the Viceroy. J Accordingly, in 1567,
Sir Henry Sydney reported to the Queen, UA11 Tyr-
connel's, together with O'Cahane's country under the
government of O'Cahane, is in great obedience to
your Majesty, and daily doth annoyance to the
rebels." At the Irish Conciliation Parliament, sought
to be assembled in Dublin by Sir John Perrot, in
1585, " there came to it (say the Four Masters),
O'Cahane, Lord of Oireach-O'Cahan, namely, Eode-
ric, the son of Manus, son of Donough the hospitable,
son of John, son of Accency." It was in his time,

* State Papers, temp. Hen. VIII. , v. 3, p. 399.

t Idem, p. 407-8.

| Gregory's Hebrides, p. 198.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 661

and, as appears, with his aid, that the McGonnell, or
McDonnell, settled in Antrim. The O'Cahanes, how-
ever, sedulously adhered to the O'Neill as their Lord
Paramount, and fell with his fortunes, being expressly
by name included in the act for his attainder, by
which all Ulster was declared confiscated to the
Crown. In the Egerton Papers, recently published
by the Camden Society, is an interesting report from
Sir John Davis to the Lord Chancellor, dated in
1607, wherein he writes, " The Earl of Tyrone is sent
for into England, to receive order in the cause between
him and O'Cahane, or rather between him and the
King's Majesty, touching the title of O'Cahane's
Country ; and he is directed by the King's letters to
attend at Court about the beginning of Michaelmas
term."*

In 1615, on an alleged conspiracy "to seize and
destroy Derry and the other principal towns of the
Plantation," a few of the chief Irish gentlemen of the
North were apprehended, tried, and six of them found
guilty and executed ; one of these, it appears, was
Rory O'Cahane, whose estate was thereupon granted
away by the Commissioners of the Plantation, as
forfeited.f The Duchess of Buckingham having,
after her first widowhood, married the Earl of Antrim,
took up her residence in that County, and there
raised a force of 1,000 men in aid of the Monarchy.
Lord Wentworth, who was at the time Lord Deputy,

* Camden Papers, v. 12, p. 414.

f Ordnance Survey of Derry, pp. 40-41.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

directed her Grace to have these recruits marched by
the route of Newtown-Liraavady, in passing through
which village she was induced to visit the wife of
O'Cahane, whose castle had been demolished and
himself banished. "In the midst of a half ruined
edifice was kindled a fire of branches, and the window
casements were stuffed with straw, to keep off the

rigour of the season. There lodged the wife of

O'Cahane."* Colonel 4 O'Kyan,' mentioned in the
wars of Montrose, and who was executed after the
defeat at Philipsburg, is considered to have been in
his day the head of the O'Cahanes ; while another
officer, styled Manns Eoe O'Cahane, was, by Crom-
well's Act of 1652, excepted from pardon for life
and estate. In ten years after, Nicholas £ Cahane' of
this family was called upon his knees before the Irish
House of Commons, and committed to prison, for
alleged disrespect " to the best of Kings, on whose
head God by his miraculous providence had placed a
crown of pure gold, which all the machinations of
such as he, would never be able to remove, "f In the
Army List given in Berwick's Rawdon Papers (p.
360), a Eegiment of Infantry in this campaign is
stated to have been commanded by an O'Cahane, and
O'Conor in his Military Memoirs says O'Cahane did
raise such a force. Three other O'Cahanes, it will be
observed, held commissions in this Eegiment, while
John O'Cahane was an Ensign in the Earl of Antrim's

* Graham's Derriana, p. 46.

f Comm. Journ. v. 2, pp. 604-5.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY.

663

Infantry, and Owen ' Cahane' was a Lieutenant in
Lord Clare's Dragoons.

The Attainders of 1691 enumerate, with Captain
Francis, described as of Pennyburn-Mill, County of
Derry, and Captain Roger ' Reign' 0' Cahane of Con-
nateile, County of Tyrone, twelve others of the Sept.
After the capitulation of Limerick, Lord Iveagh
brought over a body of the expatriated soldiers to
France, who were sent thence, as before mentioned,
under the command of Colonel McDonnell for the
service of the Emperor of Austria in Hungary. He
employed them against the Turks, by whom they were
so severely handled, that the remnant was drafted into
other corps of the Imperial army.* Of these suffer-
ing Irish refugees were two O'Cahanes, whose Peti-
tions to King William, " that they, being sick, might
safely repair to Ireland, their natural soil," have been
noted as in the Southwell Manuscripts. It is
alleged f that the Irish Roman Catholics petitioned
the Pretender, in 1711, to nominate a Dr. Bryan
O'Cahane, then Parish Priest of Ballynascreen,
County of Down, to the vacant See of Derry. Bunt-
ing, in his Ancient Music of Ireland (pp. 44 & 68),
makes mention of a celebrated Irish harper of the
name of O'Cahane, who, having been about the year
1773 in the Highlands, often entertained the Lord
Mac Donald at his residence in the Isle of Skye, with
his excellent performance on the harp. " He was

* O'Callnghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 359.
t Ordnance Survey of Derry, p. 69.

664 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

considered one of the chief O'Cahanes of his old terri-
tory ; and the names of the estates in the North, to
which he was traditionally entitled, were enumerated
at the great meeting of the harpers some years since
in Belfast"

CAPTAIN HENRY COURTNEY.

His name does not appear on the Outlawries of 1691,
nor has any information been obtained of him or his
family.

CAPTAIN PETER DOBIN.

This officer is described in the Inquisition for his at-
tainder as of Drumferagh, County of Antrim ; within
which county were then also outlawed Thomas 'Dobbin'
of Clough and Henry Dobbin of Ballynacard ; while
in the County of Kilkenny three Dobbins stand
outlawed. At the Court of Claims, Captain William
Dobbin was allowed an equity of redemption on
a mortgage of County of Antrim lands, forfeited by
said Captain Peter. Another Peter Dobbin was
Quarter-master in Lord Dongan's Dragoons ; while a
third Peter, alias Piers, was an Ensign in the Earl of
Tyrone's Infantry. Anthony Dobin was a Burgess of
Carrickfergus in the time of James the First, as was
Nicholas Dobin in the time of Charles the First.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 665

CAPTAIN HUGH O'GRIBBIN.

He was attainted by the description of Hugo O'Grib-
bin of Killegneen, County of Antrim. See further
of this name at Colonel Robert Clifford's Dragoons.

CAPTAIN ART O'HARANE.

The O'Horans were a clan of Hy Maine in the County
of Galway, but do not seem convertible into this name.

LIEUTENANT HENRY SMITH.

The Attainders of 1642 present the name of Richard
* Smith,' described as of Madanstown, County of
Meath. In 1665, Sir Edward Smith was appointed
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, as was
John 4 Smith' a Puisne Judge thereof in 1700. In
the Parliament of 1689, two of the name were of the
Temporal Peers — Smith, Viscount Carrington of Bar-
rifore, a 4 Papist/ and Smith, Viscount Strangford, a
Protestant ; while William Smith, Bishop of Raphoe,
was one of the Spiritual Peers. Besides this officer,
three other Smiths were commissioned on this Army
List, and the Attainders of 1691 present four Smiths,
the majority of whom, including Lieutenant Henry,
appear to have been of the County of Kilkenny.

666 king james's irish army list.

LIEUTENANT DANIEL MAKAY.

In the settlement of property in Ulster consequent
upon the Plantation, Randal Mc Donnell of Dunluce,
Earl of Antrim, conveyed lands in that Connty to
Daniel ' Mc Key ' of Bally tirim, to hold in fee; where-
of said Daniel died seised in 1622, leaving Alexander
Mc Allaster Mc Key his son and heir, then of full
age.* The present Lieutenant, it may be concluded,
was the son of this Alexander.

LIEUTENANT EDWARD Mc CONWAY.

Amongst the manuscripts of Mr. Robert Conway
Hurley of Tralee (which have been kindly forwarded
in aid of these Illustrations), is a very interesting
pedigree of the family of Conway, compiled from the
Herald's Office in London and North Wales, and yet
more especially from one at Ragley, certified by
Francis, Viscount Beauchamp, 4 now Marquis of Hert-
ford.' From this it appears that Sir John Conway,
of Ragley in Worcestershire, (whose lineage is there
deduced from Sir William Conais, High Constable of
England in the time of the Conqueror), was made
Governor of Ostend in 1586 by the Earl of Leicester;
and that having married Ellen, daughter of Sir Fulke
Greville of Beauchamp's-court, Warwickshire, he died
in the first year of the reign of James the First,

* Inquis. 1635, in Cane. Hib.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 667

leaving issue by her, two sons ; Sir Edward, his suc-
cessor ; and Sir Fulke, his second son. The latter, in
1609, on the Plantation of Ulster, settled as an under-
taker in Antrim, where he obtained a large territory
in Killultagh, the ancient inheritance of Cori O'Neill.
Sir Fulke was a distinguished officer in Ireland, be-
came a Representative of Antrim in Parliament, and
ultimately a Privy Councillor. He died in 1624,
leaving a son Christopher, Member for the Borough
of Armagh in the Parliament of 161^, and who mar-
ried the eldest sister of the justly revered Sir James
Ware. By her he had James Conway, Captain of
Horse, who, with his cousin Lord Conway, accom-
panied Charles the Second in his exile. On the
Restoration, the former returned to Ireland, with
nothing but his commission to depend upon. Here
Smith, in his ' History of Kerry] takes up the migra-
tion ; " there came into this county, soon after the
Restoration, James Conway, son to Christopher Con-
way, nephew to Lord Conway." He married (re-
sumes the manuscript) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward
Roe, Esq. of Clohane, County of Kerry, by Alice,
daughter of Jenkin Conway of Castle Conway in the
same county, one of the Munster undertakers who, in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, came from Wales with
Sir William Herbert, Sir Edward Denny and Robert
Blennerhassett, to plant some of the forfeited estates
of the Desmond ; on which occasion Jenkin obtained
the seignory of Killorglin (afterwards called Castle
Conway), comprising the castles, towns, and lands

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thereof, the island of Inisfallen, and several other
denominations, 5260 acres, in said county ; with
sundry advowsons. This castle was afterwards burnt
by order of the Lord President of Munster. James
Conway, in consequence of his marriage with the
Kerry lady, settled at Clohane, and had by her two
sons, Edward and Christopher. The former married
a daughter of John Blenerhasset of Ballyseedy, and
seems to be identical with the above Lieutenant,
erroneously styled on the Army List, by a Sept
designation, 4 McConway.' It is to be observed, how-
ever, that the Hurley manuscript, from which these
illustrations are drawn, states that Christopher, a
brother of Edward, was also an officer in King James's
Army, and fell at Aughrim ; he had married Joan
Roche of the House of Dundine, County of Cork, by
whom he had issue six sons (and one daughter,
Elizabeth, who became the wife of John O'Connell of
Derrynane). The second of his six sons, James
Conway, went to France with the Irish emigrants,
and had the command of a company in Lord Mount-
cashel's Regiment. Thomas Conway, the fourth of
Christopher's sons, had by his wife Anne, daughter of
Patrick Fitzgerald of G-allerus, for Ms second son,
another James Conway, Count Conway in France, a
very distinguished officer in the Irish Brigade ; and
he, marrying Julianne O'Mahony, had by her two sons,
Thomas Count Conway, and Thomas Henry, Viscount
Conway, both officers in the service of France ; but
neither left male issue. Edward, the third son of

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 669

Thomas and Anne Conway, married Ellen Mahony,
by whom he had two sons ; Thomas, who died in 1824,
s. p.; and James, who became a Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Fifty-third Foot ; his eldest son, John S. Con-
way, appears to be now the representative of this
ancient family.

To return to the immediate descendants of Chris-
topher Conway by Joan Roche ; Robert, their fifth
son, married Mary, daughter of Colonel Maurice
Hussey of Flesk-bridge, now called Cahirnane, by
whom he had a son, Edward Conway ; who, marrying
Christian, daughter of Edward Rice, left issue by her
one son, who died unmarried in 1777, and two daugh-
ters ; Lucy, who also died unmarried in 1799, and
Mary, who married John Hurley in 1784, by whom
she left issue two sons, Robert Conway and John

Hurly, and five daughters. Robert Conway, the

eldest, died without issue ; John, the younger, married
Elizabeth, daughter of the well known Richard Kir-
wan of Creg Castle, the eminent philosopher, by
whom he had issue as before mentioned (ante, p. 292).
Christopher, the sixth son of Christopher and Joan
Roche, married Ellen Mahony, by whom he had two
sons, Sir Matthew and Sir Robert, Knights of St.
Louis, and who both died without issue. All these
children of Christopher and Joan were educated
members of the Church of Rome, and hence their
necessitated devotion to foreign service.

In Coric Abbey, County of Tyrone, is a monument
commemorating Captain Cormac Conway, who fought
for King James at Aughrim.

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LIEUTENANT DONAGHY MAC GUNSHENAN.

A Clan of this name was located in Fermanagh,
about Lough Erne.

LIEUTENANT BRYAN Mc CANN.

The Mc Canns were chiefs of Hy Breasail, an ancient
territory on the borders of Armagh and Tyrone, near
Lough Neagh. In 1189, (say the Four Masters)
died Echmilidh, son of Mc Can, £ the delight and
happiness of all Tyrone.' In 1212, the death of Donogh
Mac Can, Chief of the Sept, is recorded. Five of this
family were slain in the Minister war of Elizabeth's
time, at the battle of Kinsale.

LIEUTENANT CON O'DOIIERTY.

The O'Dohertys were an ancient Sept, a branch of
the O'Donnells, located on the territory between
Loughs Foyle and S willy and the Atlantic, now known
as the Barony of Inishowen, County of Donegal. In
1194, an Abbey was founded for Cistercians at Hil-
fothair in this county by the O'Doghertie. It was a
filial establishment of Easroa, to which, in process of
time, it was united.* In three years after, Eachmar-
cagh O'Doghertie, who had assumed the chieftaincy

* Archclall's Mon. Hib. p. 99.

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 671

of Kinel-Connell, the country of O'Donnell, was slain
by John de Courcy, in an engagement, where fell
several of both those native Septs. In 1454, Donell
O'Donnell, chief of Tyrconnel, was taken prisoner by
the O'Dohertie. The Tanist succession of these rival
Chiefs is very accurately and fully given by the Four
Masters. In 1548, O'Doherty was one of the 1 con-
federates ' with Con O'Neill against English govern-
ment.* In 1582, say the Four Masters, died the
O'Doherty, i.e. John, son of Phelim, son of Connor
Carrach, Lord of Inishowen. " Had the deceased been
a hostage to be ransomed, horses and flocks would
have been given for his ransom ; his son John Oge
was appointed in his place, in opposition to Cahir
O'Doherty, and on that account the country was
much plundered in its crops, corn, dwellings, and
cattle." At the Parliament convened by Sir John
Perrot, in 1585, this Sept was represented by John
Oge, the son of John, son of Phelim, son of Connor
Carrach O'Doherty. In three years after, he was
taken prisoner by the forces of Sir Bichard Bingham
and Sir Thomas Norris, on the charge of having
" made friendship and alliance with a portion of the
men of the Spanish fleet." He died in 1601, " Lord
of the Barony of Inishowen," say the Masters, " and
there was not a Lord of a Barony amongst the Irish
more distinguished for manual action and hospitality,

or more bold in counsel than he." That rank and

title the O'Doherty maintained until the time of

* Stuart's Armagh, p. 237.

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James the First, when Sir Cahir O'Doherty was killed
in a contest with the English. He had in 1605 a
grant from King James, of various manors, lordships,
castles, lands, advowsons, &c. in the County of Inish-
owen, or O'Doherty 's Country, saving and reserving
the Castle of Culmore, in lieu of which he was to
receive four salmons per day during the season an-
nually, with the custody of the castle in time of peace,
or when not occupied by the Crown ; to hold same to
him and his heirs male, paying between Michaelmas
and All Saints' days 30 good and fat beeves at Newry,
and he and his said heirs attending all hostings, risings
out, and journies, with twenty footmen and six horse-
men armed, and with victuals for forty days, to serve
against the ' rebels ' in Ireland. This was a resto-
ration patent, as of territory theretofore forfeited by
Sir John O'Doherty, Knight, Chief of his name and
father of said Sir Cahir. The Act of 1612, however,
for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and confisca-
tion of Ulster, included Sir Cahir O'Doherty, 1 late of
Birtecastle, County of Donegal', in its extermination ;
and the King thereupon directed that his possessions
within the Barony of Inishowen and O'Doherty 's
Countrie should be granted to Sir Arthur Chichester,
Knight, with liberty to create manors and freehold
estates. To a lady of this broken down and
landless family, ' Rose O'Doherty, daughter of the
Dynasts of Inishowen,' a monument is erected in the
Franciscan church at Lovaine. It states that she was
first married to Caffry O'Donnell, cousin of the Prince

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY.

673

of Tyrconnel, and secondly to Owen O'Neill, Com-
mander of the Catholic Army in Ulster. In 1691,
was attainted Charles Doherty of Muff, County of
Cavan ; as was also Edmund O'Doherty of the County
of Donegal. The latter forfeited derivative interests,
the reversion of which in fee was claimed in 1700 by
the Earl of Donegal, but his petition was dismissed as
cautionary.

LIEUTENANT BEY AN MAC MANUS.

The Mc Manus was Chief of a numerous and influen-
tial Clan of Fermanagh. According to the native
Annalists, they had the command of the shipping in
Lough Erne, and held the post of hereditary chief
managers of its fisheries under the Maguire. A
branch of this family was also located on the borders
of the Counties of Leitrim and Eoscommon. The
Four Masters record, at 1498, the death of Mac
Magnusa of Seanaid, i. e. Cathal Oge, the son of
Cathal, son of Cathal, son of Gillpatrick, son of
Matthew, &c. a Coadjutor Bishop of Clogher for
fifteen years before his death, " a patron of learning
and art in his own country, chief conservator of the
canons, a fountain of charity and mercy to the poor
and unprotected of God's people, a man who brought
together many historical books which he compiled
for himself — the Book of Annals of Ballymacmanus,
[better known as the Annals of Ulster, published in

674 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

the splendid collection of the late Dr. Charles O'Conor,
JRerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, vol. IV.] He died
of the small-pox on the 10th of the kalends of April,
1498, in the 60th year of his age." The Attainders
of 1642 have but one of this name, and far away from
the homes of the Sept ; he is described as Owen Mc
Manus of Dunbouke, County of Wicklow. Those of
1691 trace them back in their old ground, but to be
again expelled. There were then outlawed Kory
Phelimy Mc Manus of Lisnaskea, County of Fer-
managh, and Cullen Mc Manus of Tullycool, County
of Down. A Colonel Hugh Mc Manus was killed at
Aughrim.

LIEUTENANT EDMUND Mc ILDEREY.

In the Inquisition taken on his attainder, he is called
and described as Edward Mc Uderry, Salt-pans,
County of Antrim.

ENSIGN JAMES O'CRILLEY.

Nothing has been ascertained of him or his Sept, but,
from the Regiment in which he appears, and the
description of his brother officers, the entry seems a
mistake for O'Clery, a name of the deepest historic
interest in Irish genealogy. That Sept had large pos-
sessions in Tyr-hugh ; their chief seat being at Kilbar-
ron, where still remain the ruins of their castle, situ-

COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANT11Y.

675

a ted on a rock over the shore of the Atlantic, near
Ballyshannon. They were highly distinguished in
the native literature, and became hereditary bards
and historians to the O'Donnells, Princes of Tyrcon-
nel. One of them, Michael O'Clery, was a native of
Donegal, born about the year 1580 ; at an early age he
resorted for education to the Irish Franciscan monas-
tery of Louvain, whence returning to his native land,
and eager to rescue its historic memorials, (then, he
feared, on the verge of annihilation) he travelled for
fifteen years through Ireland, collected all manu-
scripts, civil and ecclesiastical, that could be disco-
vered, and, from the mass of these materials, drew out
the Annals styled of the Four Masters. They com-
mence at the earliest period of Irish history, and are
brought down to the year 1616. This work is, as
might be conjectured, especially diffuse in celebrating
the obits and achievements of the family of -O'Clery ;
yet the name does not appear on the Attainders of
1641, while those of 1688 have only Roger O'Clery of
Kirelly, County of Londonderry.

ENSIGN MYLES Mc NAMEE.
Nothing has been ascertained of him or his Sept.

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676 king james's irish army list.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH'S.

Captains.

The Colonel.
[John Lacy,

Lieutenant- Colonel. ]
[Gros. Perdeverande,

Major.]

Walter Esmond.

Le Sr. Deffoser.

Robert Esmond.

Anthony Eustace.

Ignatius Cavanagh,
Grenad.

[Nicholas Warren.]

Lieutenants.
Bonaventure Kinselagh.

Denis ' Kavanagh.'

William Boole.
William Fisher.

Ensigns,

Edmund Kauvanagh.

COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH.

Dermod Mac Murrough, who led in the English
invaders, was at the time King of Leinster. Donal
Cavenagh was his only son, and as such, though illegi-
timate, assumed a title of sovereignty in that pro-
vince. His descendants, known as Cavenaghs, or
Mac Murrough Cavenaghs, maintained their inde-
pendence, and held the title of Kings of Leinster,
with large possessions in Wexford and Carlow, down
to the reign of Elizabeth. On a fortress by the bank
of the Barrow, between Carlow and Leighlin, they
were inaugurated, attended by the O'Nolan, Chief
of Forth in Carlow, as King's Marshal. In 1314,

COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH's INFANTRY. 677

Edward the Second directed his especial missive to
Maurice 'Kavanagh' Mac Murrough, for his aid
against the Scots. In 1417, died the most illustrious
individual of this Irish Sept, Art Mac Murrough
O'Cavenagh, King of Leinster ; "a man," say the
Masters, " who defended his province against the Eng-
lish and Irish from the age of 16 to that of 60; a man
distinguished for his hospitality, knowledge, and feats
of arms ; a man full of prosperity and Royalty, a
founder of churches and monasteries by his bounty and
contributions. He had been forty-two years in the
government of Leinster, when he died." Throughout
these Annals, his contests with the English, in the very
presence of their King, Richard the Second, are proudly
recorded ; and when his son, after a long imprison-
ment, was restored in 1428 to his people, they write,
" Murrough, Lord of Leinster, namely Donogh, the son
of Art Cavenagh, who was imprisoned in England for
the space of nine years, was ransomed by his own
Province, which was joyful news to the Irish." In
the Munster wars, at the close of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, Donal O'Cavenagh, surnamed ' Spanagh '
having sojourned some time in Spain, became a distin-
guished leader of thelrishry. On the Roll of Attainders
in 1641 appear four of the name ; while, at the head
of these of 1691, Charles Cavenagh, the above
Colonel, is described as of Carrickduff, County of
Carlow, Esq. with Ignatius and James Cavenagh of
the same place, and nineteen others in the Counties of
Carlow and Wexford.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

[LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN LACY.]

This post does not appear filled upon the present Army
List, but having been subsequently so appointed, as
shown in Appendix to King's State of the Protestants,
it is here inserted ; while the available notices of
the family and of this Colonel are set down at
Lieutenant John Lacy, in the Royal Regiment of
Infantry.

CAPTAINS WALTER AND ROBERT ESMONDE.

This name is of Norman extraction, ' Esmon ' and
' Sieur Esmon ' appearing on sundry early records.
In Wexford, more especially, it is traceable from the
time of Edward the First, who, in 1303, projecting
his invasion of Scotland, commissioned Henry ' Est-
mund ' to provide ships in the harbour of Wexford
and in the adjoining havens, to be in readiness to pass
over thence in the service of that campaign. In 1349,
John Esmonde was consecrated Bishop of Ferns, from
which See he was afterwards translated to Emly. In
1371, Thomas Estmonde was Constable of Wexford
Castle.

About the year 1569, John Esmonde, the founder
of the existing line of Baronets, and then head of this
family, was settled at Johnstown in the County of
Wexford, a property which by forfeiture and alienation
has since passed to the family of Grogan. In the
time of Queen Elizabeth flourished Laurence Es-

COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGIl'S INFANTRY. 679

monde, great grandson of the above John of 1569.
A "Brief Description of the Barony of Forth," written
in 1684 for Sir William Petty, and now or lately in
the possession of Sir Thomas Phillips of Middlehill, is
very full on the family of Esmonde ; and in relation
to this Laurence, says that he " during his minority
continued a 4 martialist,' in the Low Countries of Ger-
many, the famous academy of military discipline and
good literature, the only theatre of warlike stratagems
and heroic exploits, wherein he became an excellent
proficient," &c. He was afterwards employed by
Queen Elizabeth in Holland, and in Ireland in the
wars of the Pale ; was knighted by Sir Henry
Sidney, and afterwards, when serving in Connaught,
so distinguished himself by zeal and activity, that in
1622 he was raised to the Peerage as Lord Esmonde,
Baron of Limbericke,* County of Wexford. He mar-
ried a Catholic lady of the name of O'Fflahertie, by
whom he had a son Thomas ; but, on the suggestion
that this marriage Avas illegal, he having been a con-
formist, Lord Esmonde, without taking any legal
steps to annul it, took to his second wife a grand-
daughter of the Earl of Ormonde, by whom, however,
he had no issue. Lord Esmonde sat in the Irish
Parliament of 1634 as a Peer, and was one of the
nobles who attended the unfortunate Lord Strafford
in the memorable procession to St. Patrick's Cathe-

* This title was afterwards, with the Earldom of Castlemain,
conferred by Charles II. upon Roger Palmer, husband of a Royal
favourite.

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dral, being then one of the Privy Council of Ireland.
During the ensuing civil war, the custody of the fort of
Duncannon was entrusted to him, then 4 an old but
experienced officer. ' He was compelled, however, to
surrender it in March, 1644, to General Preston,
upon obtaining quarter and sufferance for life and
goods. The disaster, however, so sorely affected him,
that he died, 4 worn out with age' and vexation,
within a short time after ; having, by a will executed
immediately previously, directed his interment 4 in
the chapel he had built at Limbericke,' and bequeathed
all his estates, upwards of seventy townlands, with
advowsons, manors, rectories, and fisheries (after some
prior limitations), to Laurence, the eldest born of his
aforesaid son Thomas, in tail-male. This Thomas had
been created a Baronet during his father's life, but,
under the domestic circumstance alluded to, and the
troubles of the period, he never claimed the Baronage
on his father's death. He attended the Council of
Kilkenny in 1646, when the Nuncio advised that,
in all military affairs within their cognizance, Sir
Thomas Esmonde should be taken into consultation.
He was consequently, by Cromwell's Act of 1652,
excepted from pardon for life and estate. The Act
of Settlement, however, directed that he should be
restored to his principal seat and 2,000 acres of land,
exclusive of those portions of the family estates then
in the possession of the Duke of Albemarle or his
tenants. Many subsequent confirmatory patents,
from Charles the Second to men of the 4 new interest'

COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH'S INFANTRY. 681

in Wexford, contain savings of the rights of Sir
Thomas, as also of Laurence his son, afterwards the
second Baronet, who in 1687 was Sheriff for the
County of Carlo w, in the year after which he died.

The Outlawries of 1691 comprise Thomas Esmonde
of Wexford, William of Johnstown, and John of
Ferrybank, all in that County. This John appears
identical with John who afterwards succeeded as the
fourth in the line of the Baronets, and with an indi-
vidual of the same name who, after the Eevolution,
passed over to the Continent, and served in the
Spanish Army as Captain of a Regiment of Dragoons,
under the Marshal Duke of Berwick. Two confi-
dential and familiar letters, from the son of this illus-
trious commander to Captain John Esmonde, have
been shown to the compiler of this work. The first,
of 6th November, 1733, from Barcelona, opens, "A
commission, dear Jack, has been given me which
obliges me to go off tomorrow morning, and I can
assure you I am very sorry to part you without see-
ing you ; but since it cannot be, I will tell you at
least in this letter what you are to do." — (The writer
then gives directions as to the route for the march of
Horse and Dragoons through France to the seat of
war) " When you come near Avignon, you can take
a trip thence to see the Duke of Ormonde, and if you
find there a cook, that perhaps will be sent from
Paris for me to the Duke of Ormonde, you will take

him along with you I am persuaded you will

take care the Horse should be embarked in good

682 king james's irisij army list.

ships, and you may be sure that Marvillac, Maredo,
&c, as also Mahony, will render you all the services

that depend on them I believe that when you have

once passed the Ehone, it will not be amiss you should
march on before with the horse and mules, to the
place where you are to embark, that you may rest
them for some days before embarking ; but inform
before-hand whether if you are to go off from Antibe
or Toulon, for it is not as yet well resolved upon.

&c. &c, Most faithfully yours, Liria," — The

letter, so signed while his father lived, is contrasted
with his signature to the second, of the 20th February,
1736, when, the old Duke having died, he signs, 'Ber-
wick.' It is written from Naples : " My health, God
be praised, is very good, and I want nothing but
fair weather to 1 make ' a little exercise ; great talk

of peace, and if so, we shall soon return home."

This Duke died at Naples in 1738, leaving issue as
mentioned ante, p. 27. His correspondent, Captain
John Esmond, had long previously entered the
Spanish service as a Cadet, was on commission in
1719, and raised to a Captaincy in 1734. After the
death of the third Baronet, he sought in 1739 a pass-
port to his native country, ' to take care of his private
concerns,' which was granted under the official seal
on the 28th of May in that year. Accordingly, his
claim having been allowed, he died the fourth Baro-
net in 1758, as recorded in Burke's Baronetage.
Sir Walter, the brother and successor of Sir John,
closed the elder line of this Baronetcy, he leaving no

COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGIl'S INFANTRY.

683

male issue. His daughter and sole heiress married
Stanislaus Maximilian James Mc Mahon, of the
County of Clare, by whom she had issue a son and a
daughter ; but the Baronetcy passed to the heir male
of the second son of the first Baronet, viz. James
Esmonde of Ballynestra, and is now borne by his son
and heir, Sir Thomas Esmonde, a Deputy Lieutenant
and Privy Councillor.

Patrick Chevalier d'Esmonde, a Colonel ■ in the
Austrian service, was during a considerable time a
captive in Turkey : he left an only daughter and
heiress, who married Charles Count Kavanagh, (of
the family of Borris), a General of Cavalry in the
Imperial Army.*

[CAPTAIN NICHOLAS WARREN.]

This officer does not appear upon the present Army
List, although his commission bears date on the 1st
of December, 1688. He was of a family long pre-
viously settled at Corduff, before alluded to, ante, p.
440. "

LIEUTENANT BONAVENTURE KINSELAGH.

The O'Kinsellaghs were a numerous and territorial
Clan, located in the Counties of Carlow and Wexford.

* Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, p. 37(>.

684 king james's irish army list.

The only individual of the name attainted in 1642,
was Dermott Kinselagh of Ballaghmone, County of
Kildare. Eneas 4 Kinsly ' of Ballynacargy was a
member of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny in 1646.
The above officer is described in the Inquisition
taken on his attainder, as of Ferns in the County of
Wexford ; at which place a Turlogh Kinsellagh was
then also outlawed, with Arthur Kinsellagh of Bally-
duff, in the same County.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BOOLE.

This officer is described in the Inquisition on his
outlawry as of Clonegal, in the County of Carlo w.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM FFISHER.

Nothing has been ascertained worthy of notice re-
specting this officer, or the name at the period.

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY.

685

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S.

Captains.

Lieutenants.

Ensigns.

Ine colonel.

John .Nugent.

VJTclliy ill// vJcidilU.

[_— JJe ousDy,

William QnwfVi

William omycn.

James Comerford.

Phil in Wall

Edward Fitz Gerald.

Nicholas Lambert.

Marcus Quirke.

James Everard.

Thomas Mandeville.

John Mandeville.

Richard Butler.

James Hackett.

Daniel Meagher.

Thomas Kehoe.

Michael Comerford.

John Lucker.

Maurice Roche.

Richard Tobin.

Nicholas Roche.

Garrett Gough.

John Tobin.

John Gough.

John Ankittell.

Richard Ankittell.

James Sarsfield.

Thomas Shee.

Richard Malone.

James Tobin.

Michael Bryan.

John Howley.

Garret Comerford.

Ambrose Mandeville.

Marcus Shea.

Patrick Mandeville.

Thomas Tierney.

John Lambert.

Edward Mandeville.

Edmund Bray.

John Fitz Maurice.

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER.

Of this noble family and Colonel, see ante, at Lord
Galmoy's Horse.

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[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DE BUSBY].

This officer is inserted in the Army List, on the
authority of the Appendix to King's State of the Pro-
testants.

CAPTAIN THOMAS KEHOE.

A family of this name appears then and previously
located in the County of WicMow. Of the attainted in
1642 are recorded Thomas Mac Mulmurry M'Kehoe,
and William McShane McFarrel McKehoe of Knock-
andarragh, County of Wicklow ; while there were
outlawed in 1691 John 4 Keagho' of Ballymuraroe, in
the same County, and Humphrey 4 Keagho' of Bally-
beddin, in the adjoining County of Wexford. More

in conformity with the latter orthography was

Keoghoe, an Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's
Infantry.

CAPTAIN GARRETT GOUGH.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Second ; in that of Henry the Sixth, John
4 Goghe' was a Justice in Eyre. In 1601, Edmund
Gough was knighted by the President of Munster,
Lord Carew, for his services in the province, and
especially at the battle of Kinsale. In 1626, Dr.

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Francis Gough succeeded to the See of Limerick.
The Attainders of 1642 record the names of Eichard
4 Geogh' of Lusk, and John Geogh of Heathstown, in
the County of Dublin ; William Gough of Ballycom-
mon, County of Wicklow, and Patrick Gough of Ark-
low. At the Kilkenny Assembly in 1646, Patrick
Gough of Kilmanahan was one of the Commons. In
King James's Parliament of Dublin (1689), Edward
Gough sat as one of the Eepresentatives of Youghal.

The above officer is described on the Attainders of
1691, as Garrett £ Goff ' of Kilmanaheen, County of
Waterford ; a son or relative, it would seem, of the
Patrick who sat in the Council of Kilkenny. With
him were then outlawed Edward ' Goff,' merchant of
Cork, and Edward ' Goff' of Youghal, Alderman.
Ignatius Gough also was a forfeiting proprietor in
Dublin, as was Patt Gough in the County of Meath.

CAPTAIN JOHN ANKITTEL.

So early as in the reign of Eichard the Second, the
name of 'Angetale' is of Irish record. The officer
here introduced appears to have been of Ballinakill,
in the Queen's County, of which estate he had livery
on coming of age in 1640.

688

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

CAPTAIN THOMAS SHEE.

The Sept of the O'Shee or O'Shea was extended over
territory in the Counties of Kerry, Tipperary, and in
later years in Kilkenny. An ancient MS. pedigree
in the Collections of Trinity College, Dublin, (F. 3,
27), sets forth that Sir Richard Shee, Knight, died in
August, 1608, leaving Luke of Kilkenny, his eldest
son, and Thomas his second son, ' sometime Mayor
thereof this latter married Ellen, daughter of Nicho-
las Dobin of Waterford, by whom he had no issue,
and, dying in 1636, was buried in St. Mary's Church,
Kilkenny. Luke, the eldest son of Sir Richard, mar-
ried Ellen, daughter of Edmund, Viscount Mountgar-
rat ; by whom he had, besides seven daughters, two
sons, 1. Robert, who married Margaret, daughter and
co-heiress of Richard Masterson of Ferns, County of
Wexford, Knight ; 2. Edmund, who married Dorothea,
daughter of Nicholas Dormer of Ross, County of Wex-
ford. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, Edward
Shee and Robert Fitz-William Shee of that city, with
Walter Shee of Trim, were of the Confederate Catho-
lics. The declaration of Royal gratitude of 1662
includes Ensign George Shee of Kilkenny. Besides
the above officer, James Shea was a Quarter-Master
in Lord Galmoy's Horse. The Attainders of 1691
include the above officer, described as Thomas Fitz-
John Shea, merchant, with seven other cavaliers of
the name, all of the City of Kilkenny. At the Court
of Claims, John ' Shee,' Ellen Shee his sister, Francis

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLERS INFANTRY. 689

Shee and Patrick Shee, for themselves, and as execu-
tors of William Shee, claimed and were allowed
charges affecting the County of Kilkenny estates of
James Shee ; while Henry Shee had a similar allow-
ance of the benefit of several freehold interests there-
out : Laurence Shee also claimed and was allowed a
charge on Kilkenny lands of Samuel Shee.

At the battle of Laufheld, in 1747, Captain Shea,
in Roth's Regiment, was wounded.

CAPTAINS AMBROSE AND EDWARD
MANDEVILLE.

This name is of record in Ulster from the time of John
de Conrcy's invasion, when some of the family followed
his standard. In 1302, Thomas de Mandeville,
'of Ireland,' had a treasury order for £566 13s. 4d.,
for his expenses in men, arms, and horses, incurred in
the King's first expedition to Scotland, and his and
their expenses of passage. In 1325, King Edward
the Second granted to John de Mandeville the office
of Sheriff of Down and Newtown during pleasure,
with such fees as other sheriffs of said counties in times
past used to receive. In 1335, Henry de Mandeville
had liberates for his services in Ulster against the
Mc Cartan, as also for relieving Green Castle when
besieged. Nothing has been ascertained worthy of
notice respecting these officers or their connections,
nor do they appear on the Attainders.

690

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

CAPTAIN THOMAS TIERNEY.

A Francis ' Tirney,' described as of Galway, mer-
chant, alone appears on the Attainders of 1691.

CAPTAIN JOHN LAMBERT.

This individual was the younger son of James Lam-
bert, who in the seventeenth century was head of the
Lamberts of Carnagh in the County of Wexford, at
present represented by Henry Lambert, a Deputy-
Lieutenant for that county, and at one time its Repre-
sentative in Parliament. There were attainted in
1691, Peter 'Lamport' of Wexford, Nicholas Lamport
of Carnagh, and Peter of Ballyhew in the County of
Wexford. A Charles Lambert of Aggard, County of
Galway, was also at this time a forfeiting proprietor ;
on whose estate John French and Jane his wife
claimed and were allowed an estate for her life.

LIEUTENANT PHILIP WALL.

An Edmund Wall, holding various lands in the
Parish of Uglin in Carlow, was attainted in 1641.
In the declaration of thanks' clause in 1662, Ensign
Piers Wall was included, ■ for services beyond the
sea.' This Lieutenant Philip, as appears by the
Inquisition for his attainder, was a merchant of
Drogheda. Six other Walls were outlawed at the

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 691

same time ; while a Richard Wall, who was an Ensign
in Lord Louth's Infantry, does not appear in this
proscribed Roll.

In 1747, Lieutenant Wall, of Clare's Regiment of
Brigade, was wounded at the battle of Lauffield.

LIEUTENANTS RICHARD AND JOHN TOBIN.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Third. It was especially established in
the County of Tipperary. A manuscript Book ot
Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, (F iv. 18), supplies
seven links of the generations of Tobins of Killaghy,
in the seventeenth century. In Colonel Dudley Bag-
nail's Infantry, Edward Tobin was a Lieutenant. In
King James's Parliament of Dublin, James Tobin sat
as one of the Representatives for the Borough of Feth-
ard, County of Tipperary ; and the Attainders of
1691 include with him Pierce 4 Tobyn' of Jerpoint,
and James Tobyn of Killalow, in the County of Kil-
kenny.

On the first formation of Galmoy's Horse Regiment
of Brigade, James Tobin was appointed a Major.

LIEUTENANT RICHARD MALONE.

The O'Malones, a very ancient Irish Sept, are consi-
dered to have been a branch of the O'Conors, Kings
of Connaught, and are, on old topographical records,

YY 2

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located in the Baronies of Brawney and Clonlonan,
County of Westmeath. The Four Masters exhibit
them in frequent succession as Abbots or Bishops of
Clonmacnoise. On the Roll of Attainders of 1642
stand the names of John Malone of Skerries, clerk ;
Christopher of Drogheda, merchant ; and William
Malone of Lismullen, Esq. An ancient manuscript
mentions those of the name that acted in that Civil
War as, " Young Edmund Malone, living near Ath-
lone, ' a notorious rebel ;' James Malone of Ballina-
hown, Eory and Thomas Malone of the parish of Kil-
beggan, Morres Malone of the King's County, and
the above William Malone of Lismullen." This latter
was one of the influential proprietors who attended the
celebrated meeting of the Catholic party on the Hill
of Crofty. In the Parliament of Dublin, Dermot
Malone sat in the Peers by the title of Baron of G-len-
maliere and Courchy ; while in the Commons,
Edmund Malone of Ballynahown, Esq., and Edmund
Malone, barrister, represented the Barony of Athlone.
This Edmund of Ballynahown was a Lieutenant in
Colonel Richard Grace's Regiment of Horse, (not in-
cluded in this List) ; and John Malone of Cartrons
was a Cornet of Horse in the same service. Anthony
Malone of Ballynahown was also a Lieutenant in this
army. The Malones attainted in 1691 were Edward
of Lismullen, County of Meath ; Anthony of Ballyna-
hown, John and Edmund of Cartrons, Hugh of Mullin-
gar, Edward of Dublin, and Patrick and John of Dro-
more, County of Down. Edmund Malone, styled of

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 693

'Rathleigh,' subsequently obtained a pardon under the
Great Seal. Edmund, the barrister, was one of those
who in 1703 appeared at the bar of the Irish House
of Commons, together with Sir Theobald Butler and
Sir Stephen Rice, to protest against the passing of the
'Act to prevent the further growth of Popery,' as sub-
versive of the rights secured to themselves and their
Roman Catholic countrymen by the Treaty of Lime-
rick.

In 1786, Colonel Sir James Stackpole Malone (Q?
Moloney) volunteered on a forlorn hope connected
with the reduction of Montreal. He had one hundred
men under his command, who were, with himself, all
cut down, excepting only seven.*

LIEUTENANT JOHN HOWLEY.

Although in latter years this name has been borne
in England by an Archbishop of Canterbury, and in
Ireland is of respectability in the Counties of Mayo,
Sligo, Tipperary, and Limerick, it yet does not appear
on the Attainders of 1641, or 1691 ; and is not other-
wise associated with the present work than in the
above Lieutenant, who, as the compiler has been
informed, was the great grandfather of the present
Sergeant John Howley.

* Dublin Journal, March 9th, 1786.

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ENSIGN MARCUS QUIRKE.

The O'Cuirces (Quirkes), or Mac Quirkes were an
ancient Sept of Munster. In 1643 were attainted
Teige Mac Quirke of Bally macquirke, County of Cork,
with Donell and Cornelius, his sons. Amongst those
thanked for 1 services beyond the seas,' by the clause
in the Act of Settlement so often alluded to, were
Ensigns Pierce and William Quirke of the County of
Tipperary. In 1686, Colonel John Russell received
an order from Tyrconnel to provide for sundry officers,
who could not then be received into the respective
Regiments of the army, in his (Colonel Russell's) Regi-
ments, duty free, and to place them in their respective
companies. One of the officers named for this service
was Ensign 4 Matthew' Quirke.*

ENSIGN JOHN LUCKER.
Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family.

ENSIGN EDMUND BRAY.

The name of De Bray is of record in Ireland from the
time of King John. This officer seems to have been
connected with a family of the name in Oxfordshire ;
from which county Lord Abingdon wrote in June,

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 459.

COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 695

1685, to the Earl of Clarendon, " I had forgot to tell
your Lordship that Mr. Bray was the second gentle-
man in this county who offered his service to go a
volunteer with me ; which I take so kindly, that If
your Lordship, thinks fit and he behaves himself well,
I will hereafter give him some command in the Militia,
wherein his father was Lieutenant- Colonel."* The
Diary of Clarendon, in September, 1688, says, "Sun-
day, Mr. Bray dined with me ; he told me Lord
Abingdon had agreed to set him up as one of the
Knights for this County, for the Parliament which is
to meet in November next."f A Mr. John Bray was
nominated by King James an Alderman in the new
Charter of Clonmel ; he afterwards represented that
borough in the Parliament of Dublin, and was at-
tainted in 1691.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. _

John Binns,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Major.

Charles M'Cartie. Keadagh Leary. Thomas Donovan.

* Singer's Correspondence, v. 1, p. 136.
t Idem, vol. 2, p. 187.

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COLONEL SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD
[BARONET].

The annals and achievements of this noble and historic
name are emblazoned in the history not only of Ire-
land, bnt of every civilized country of the world. In
the limited scope of memoir here allowable it may be
noted that, in the centuries within the scope of
these Illustrations, after the merciless extermination of
the Munster war against the Earl of Desmond, John
Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Gerald fled from Cork to Spain, as
did James Fitz-Gerald from Kerry. The Attainders
of 1642 present no less than sixty Inquisitions on Fitz-
Geralds ; those in Meath comprising Sir Luke Fitz-
Gerald of Tecroghan, Richard of Rathrone, and four
others ; those in Kildare, Pierce Fitz-Gerald of Bally-
sonnan, James of Timolin, Maurice of Allen, John,
William, James, and Oliver of Blackhall, and forty-
seven others. — In the Supreme Council at Kilkenny
sat Christopher Fitz-Gerald of Coynelunan, Edmund
of Ballymartyr, Edmund of Brownsford, Gerald of
Clonegad, Gerald of Timogue, the aforesaid Luke of
Tecroghan, Matthew of Gobinstown, the said Maurice
of Allen, Nicholas of Marmayne, Thomas of Binneys-
ford, and said Pierce of Ballysonnan. Cromwell's Act
'for settling Ireland' excepted from pardon for life
and estate said Sir Luke Fitz-Gerald of Tecroghan,
Knight, and Pierse Fitz-Gerald of Ballyshannon, 'com-
monly called Mac Thomas ; ' while, on the other hand,
the Parliamentary thanks in the Act of Settlement

SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY.

697

were given to Mr. Edmund Fitz-Gerald and Colonel
Richard Fitz-Gerald of Ballymaloe, to Ensign Morris
Fitz-Gerald of Ballynamartery, County of Cork, and
to Mr. George Fitz-Gerald of Tecroghan.

This George Fitz-Gerald was son of the said Sir
Luke (by his wife, Mary, daughter of Lord Netter-
ville), grandson of Sir Edward, and lineal male de-
scendant in the fifth generation from Thomas Fitz-
Gerald, the seventh Earl of Kildare, by his first wife,
Dorothy, daughter of Anthony O'More, the Lord of
Leix, whom he married in his father's life- time, when
only Lord of Offaley. George died about the year
1669, leaving Mary Fitz-Gerald his only child and
heiress ; who, intermarrying with her cousin Henry
Fitz-Gerald, the inheritor and representative of the
Fitz-Gerald s of Rathrone, and thus descended from a
common ancestor with that of Tecroghan, thereby
united these two ancient Houses. Accordingly, on the
Attainders of 1691, this Henry is styled on one Inqui-
sition as of Tecroghan, on another as of Rathrone.
Their son and heir was Gerald Fitz-Gerald of Rath-
rone, who married, in 1720, Clare, only daughter of
Sir John Bellew, Baronet ; by whom he had issue
Gerald Fitz-Gerald the younger, of Rathrone, who was
Member of Parliament for Kildare in the year 1761,
and for Harristown in 1768. He, the last heir male
of Henry and Mary Fitz-Gerald, died unmarried in
1775, and the representation descended through his
sister Julia (who had in 1757 married John Daly of
Dalybrook, County of Kildare) to her only married

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child and heiress, Bridget Fitz-Gerald Daly ; and
through her, on her marriage with William Kenney,
Esq. of Kilclogher, Co. of G-alway, and of Ballytarsney,
County of Wexford, to their eldest son, James Fitz-
gerald Kenney, Esq., who, by his wife, the Honorable
Jane Olivia Nugent, daughter of the late William Tho- .
mas, Lord Riverston, had issue only William Nugent
Kenney, a Captain in the Eleventh, who died unmar-
ried ; James Christopher Fitz-Gerald Kenney, Esq. of
Kilclogher and Merrion Square ; and a third son,
Nugent T. F. Kenney of Correndoo, County of Gal-
way. This J ames is now, therefore, the representative
and heir general of the families of Tecroghan and
Rathrone.*

This name is abundantly displayed over the present
Army List. James Fitz-Gerald was a Captain in
Colonel Purcell's Horse, in which John Fitz-Gerald
was a Quarter-Master. In Sir Neill O'Neill's, Char-
les Fitz-Gerald was a Captain, as were Morres and
John in Lord Clare's, in which latter Thomas was a
Cornet, and Gerald a Quarter-Master. In Colonel
Robert Clifford's, James Fitz-Gerald was a Captain,
and Christopher a Cornet. Maurice was a Captain in
Colonel John Hamilton's Infantry. In Lord Mount-
cashel's, Garret and Charles were Captains, Francis
and Robert Lieutenants, and James and Edward En-
signs. Edmund Fitz-Gerald was a Captain in the
Earl of Clancarthy's, wherein Gerald was a Lieuten-

* See Sir Bernard Burke's valuable genealogical works,

passim.

SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY. 699

ant. (It would seem that either of the Geralds here
underlined was the son of Henry and Mary above
alluded to). In the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry,
Edmund was a Captain, and Richard and another
Edmund Lieutenants. In Lord Gormanston's, Oliver
Fitz-Gerald was a Captain, Gerald a Lieutenant, and
Thomas an Ensign. In Colonel Henry Dillon's,
Edward and Robert were Captains, Richard a Lieu-
tenant, and Redmond an Ensign. Edward was a
Captain and Geoffrey an Ensign in Colonel Thomas
Butler's ; Edmund a Captain in Lord Kilmallock's.
In Major-General Boiseleau's, Maurice and Garret
Fitz-Gerald were Captains, and Edmund an Ensign.
James and Dudley were Captains, and Edmund a
Lieutenant in Colonel Nicholas Browne's. Thomas
was a Captain in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's ; as were
John and David in Colonel Roger McEllicot's, wherein
James was a Lieutenant, and Nicholas an Ensign.
Laurence Fitz-Gerald was a Lieutenant in Lord
Galmoy's Horse, Christopher a Cornet in Sarsfield's ;
as were Garret and Walter in Lord Dongan's, and
John in Colonel Francis Carroll's Dragoons. Richard
Fitz-Gerald was a Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment
of Foot. Walter was a Lieutenant and Maurice an
Ensign in Colonel Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry. In
Colonel Edward Butler's, John Fitz-Gerald was a
Lieutenant, as was Gibbon Fitz-Gerald in Colonel
John Barrett's.

In the Parliament of 1689, Fitz-Gerald, Earl of
Kildare, did not sit ; but in the Commons, Edward

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Fitz-Gerald was one of the Representatives of the
Borough of Inistiogue, William of that of Athy, a
second Edward of Harristown, Oliver of Lanesborough,
James of Ratoath, Nicholas of the City of Waterford ;
while this officer, Sir John, and Gerald Fitz-Gerald,
Esq., commonly called the Knight of Glin, were Mem-
bers for the County of Limerick. This Parliament
was convened in May, 1689 ; on the first of June
following, says a Diary of the day,* " there marched
from Dublin Sir Michael Creagh, the present Lord
Mayor, with his Regiment, Sir John Fitz-Gerald from
Rathcoole and Lucan, with his Regiment, and several
others from other parts towards Trim, twenty miles
from Dublin, the place appointed for the general
rendezvous of the army that are sent against Ennis-
killen. Colonel Sarsfield from Sligo is to join them,
and so to march to Enniskillen to attack it, with a
resolution to bear it down. All Sir Michael Creagh's
Regiment was raised in Dublin, Sir John Fitz-
Gerald's from Munster, and most that are gone down
there are all raw fellows, not knowing how to fire a
gun." On the following 25th of July, writes Macken-
zie,f "the enemy had several cows feeding behind
their lines near us ; our men resolved they would try
to get so welcome a prey into their own hands, and ac-
cordingly early this morning they go out, surprised Sir
John Fitz-Gerald's Regiment, who were in these lines,
made havoc of them, beat them from their trenches,

* Somers's State Tracts, vol. 11, p. 429.
t Siege of Derry, p. 45.

SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY. 701

killed the Lieutenant-Colonel, (then another Fitz-
Gerald), and Captain Frank Wilson, and took
Captain Nugent prisoner," but were driven back with-
out obtaining their desired prey. During the ensuing
siege of Deny, a Captain Fitz-Gerald was killed at
Pennyburn-Mill * as was another Captain at the
Boyne.f The Colonel at present under consideration
" had suffered under the machinations of the whigs in
the reign of Charles the Second, having been one of
the Roman Catholic gentry arrested and conveyed to
England in 1680, on account of the pretended Popish
Plot. After the accession of James the Second, he was
appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel to the Infantry Regi-
ment of Colonel Justin McCarty (Lord Mountcashel),
and in 1689 was made Colonel of this Regiment, with
which he served at the siege of Derry."J His ser-
vices on the 22nd of June, 1690, near Dundalk, are
noticed ante, p. 109. In the same month of the fol-
lowing year, when De Grinkle was advancing to
besiege Athlone with his veteran army, Sir John Fitz-
Gerald sent out a party of Irish grenadiers to dispute
the passes and defiles ; and this duty they discharged
with equal courage and prudence, " keeping the
masses of the enemy in check as long as possible,
while retiring before superior numbers, making them
purchase their advance at considerable loss."§ He

* Walkers Siege of Deny, p. 60.

t Clarke's Mem. James II., v. 2, p. 399.

| O Callaglian's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 232.

§ O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 309.

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took an active part afterwards in defending Limerick
from the same assailant ; but O'Conor writes that he
was removed for D'Usson, 4 one more versed in the
science of defending fortified places.' After the capi-
tulation he passed with his Regiment to France, where
his Brigade was styled 'the Regiment of Limerick,' of
which Jeremiah O'Mahony was Lieutenant-Colonel,
and William Therry Major. In that country, and
in other parts of the Continent, this Regiment ' ac-
quired glorious renown' in various engagements in
Normandy, Germany, and Italy, as fully set forth in
O'Conor's Military Memoirs. Sir John Fitz-Gerald
fell at Oudenarde in 1698.

Although not an adherent of King James, another
Fitz-Gerald is too intimately connected with the times
to be here omitted. Robert Fitz-Gerald, second son
of the sixteenth Earl of Kildare, was, on the accession
of James, " stripped of all his employments and
estates to the value of £3,300 per annum, and impri-
soned in Newgate for twenty-one weeks ; but after-
wards, in consequence of the state of his health, was
removed to his own house, where he remained guarded
for five months. On the landing of King William in
Ireland he was placed in close durance in Trinity
College, and so restrained until the defeat of James
at the Boyne, when he broke from his prison, and by
his courage and prudence preserved Dublin from being
sacked. When King William entered the metropolis,
Captain Fitz-Gerald had the honour of presenting to
his Majesty the keys of the city, and was afterwards

SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY.

703

sworn of his Privy Council."* The Attainders on

Inquisitions of 1691 against Fitz-Geralds are in num-
ber in the several counties, twenty-one in Waterford,
seventeen in Cork, as many in Westmeath, twenty-
three in Kildare, nine in Meath, six in Limerick and
Kilkenny respectively, five in Longford, four in Ros-
common and in Dublin, two in Carlow, two in Wick-
low, and one each in Clare, Kerry, Queen's County,
and Cavan. At the Court of Chichester House in
1700, Dame Ellen Fitz-Gerald claimed, as the widow
of Sir John Fitz-Gerald, deceased, and was as such
allowed, her jointure off his County of Limerick
estates ; Piers Fitz-Gerald also claimed and. was
allowed a remainder for years in other Limerick pos-
sessions of said Sir John. Thomas and John Fitz-
Gerald, minors, by their guardian, claimed and were
allowed an estate tail to Thomas, with remainder to
John, in other Limerick lands forfeited by Gerald
Fitz-Gerald ; while John Fitz-Gerald, second son of
said Gerald, and five of his daughters, claimed
portions off his said Limerick lands, but their prayer

was dismissed. Mary Fitz-Gerald claimed an

estate for her life in County of Kildare lands for-
feited by Henry Fitz-Gerald, her husband, which was
allowed if she survived him, while Luke Fitz-Gerald
claimed and was also allowed a reversion in fee in
said Kildare estate, after the death of said Mary ; and
Gerald and Edward Fitz-Gerald, minors, by William
Fitz-Gerald, their prochein ami, claimed and were

* Burke's Peerage, pp. 604-5.

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allowed estates in tail-male, not only in the Kildare
estates of said Henry, but also in other of his estates

in Meath, Westmeath, and Cavan. Alice Fitz-

Gerald, otherwise Dillon, claimed dower for herself,
and portions for her daughters Elinor and Alice Fitz-
Gerald, off Cork lands of Edmund Fitz-Gerald, her
husband and their father— dismissed as cautionary. 1

In 1747, Lieutenant Edward Fitz-Gerald, in
Clare's Regiment, was wounded at Lauffield. The
exploits of Brigadier James Fitz-Gerald in Dillon's
Regiment, and his death in 1773, are related in
O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 91.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN BINNS.
Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family.

LIEUTENANT KEDAGH LEARY.

The Sept of O'Leary was territorially settled in
Muskerry, County of Cork, between Macroom and
Inchageela, where are still the ruins of several of their
castles. They suffered much in the Desmond war,
and, on the defeat of Juan de Aquila at Kinsale,
Mahon Mac Donough O'Leary passed over with him
out of Ireland.* On the Attainders of 1642 occur
the names of Connor O'Leary of Carrignyeorry,

* Pacata Hibernia, p. 425,

LORD LOUTH'S INFANTRY.

705

Auliff O'Leary of Cunnowley, with fourteen other
O'Leary s, all located in the County of Cork. On
those of 1691, William Leary of Aghare, County of
Cork, stands alone.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

OLIVER, LORD LOUTH'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.
The Colonel. _

Lieutenant-Colonel,

Major.

Barnaby Burne. James Hussey. Joseph Dowdall,

Theobald Throckmorton. > T D. , , ,,T

Charles Throckmorton. \ JameS Bellew" Richard Walle.

James Donellan. Henry Plunkett.

CAPTAINS THEOBALD AND CHARLES
THROCKMORTON.

Of this name it can only be said that the latter officer
is described, in the Inquisition on his attainder in
1691, as 'of Crucetown. County of Louth.'

706

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST,

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

LORD KILMALLOCK'S.

Captains. Lieutenants.

The Colonel.

John Power,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

John Chappel,

Major.

Walter Galway.

Morgan ' Kavenagh.'

Patrick Power. . .

Thomas Bryan. . .

James Roch. Peter Nihill.
Martin Supple.

Terence Browne.

Edmund Fitz-Gerald. Peregrine Spencer.

John Barry. . ,

Richard Butler. James Butler.

Piers Birmingham.

David Mac Jonnin. .

John Noble. .

Daniel Egan.

Richard Butler, .

Grenad.

Ensigns.

Toby Butler.

COLONEL DOMINICK SARSFIELD, LORD
KILMALLOCK.

The family of Sarsfield has been fully written of in
the notices of the illustrious Patrick Sarsfield's 'Horse/
In reference to this noble officer, his grandfather was
Sir Dominick Sarsfield, Knight, Chief Justice of the

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707

Common Pleas. He was created Premier Baronet of
Ireland in 1619, and raised to the Peerage in 1624, as
Baron of Barrett's Comity and Yisconnt Kinsale,
both localities lying in Cork ; but the Baron of Kin-
sale (De Conrcy), having preferred his remonstrance
to the Crown, as that the title of Kinsale belonged to
him, the appointment was submitted for the conside-
ration and decision of the Lords and Judges, which
was given in favour of Lord Kinsale ; whereupon Sir
Dominick was soon after created a Viscount Sarsfielcl
of Kilmallock, with the precedence of the former
patent. He died in 1636, and was buried in Christ
Church, Cork. He left two sons, William the eldest,
his immediate successor, whose only son David or
Daniel, the third Viscount, died in 1687 without
issue ; when Dominick, the second son of the first
Viscount, succeeded to the title, and was father of the
above Dominick junior, the fourth Viscount of Kil-
mallock. He was, in 1689, constituted of the Privy
Council of King James, sat as a Peer in the Parlia-
ment of that year, subsequently distinguished himself
at the first siege of Limerick, was also at the battle of
Aughrim, and, after the Capitulation of Limerick, fol-
lowed the fortunes of the dethroned Stuart. On the
reorganization of the Irish forces in Bretagne, he was
appointed First-Lieutenant in the second troop of
Horse Guards, commanded by his brother-in-law the
Earl of Lucan. In 1693, he was commissioned to
succeed Major-General Maxwell in the command of
the King's Regiment of Dismounted Dragoons, having

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Turenne O'Connor (the Marshal de Turenne's godson)

his Lieutenant-Colonel, and de Sales his Major.

This Regiment, together with that of the Queen's
Irish Dragoons, 1,400 men, he headed at the battle of
Marsiglia in 1693, continuing Colonel of the former
until after the peace of Ryswick in 1697, when that
Regiment was broken up.* He afterwards became a
Colonel of Dragoons in Spain, and was Governor and
Commander at Badajos. In the Spanish campaign of
1710, he fell in battle, f He had been attainted in
1691, when Sir Robert Southwell, whose grasping at
confiscations has been more particularly alluded to
ante, p. 386, having represented his losses by the
Irish rebels and the English soldiers as amounting
from March, 1689, to All Saints' day, 1690, to
£4,759, he thereupon obtained a grant of the estates
of this 1 Dominick Sarsfield,' as also of those of James
Ronayne and Peter Levallin, all situated in the
County of Cork.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN POWER.

Some few notices of this great name in Ireland,
beyond the scope generally proposed for these Illustra-
tions, cannot be uninteresting. On the Invasion of
Ireland, the Earl, popularly called Strongbow, con-
ferred upon Robert le Poer the territory of Waterford,

* O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 160.
f O'Conor's Milit. Mem. v. 1, p. 218.

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709

excepting therefrom the city and the eantred of
the Ostmen or Danes,* whom the invaders found
settled there, and in good policy encouraged as mer-
chants. At the close of the thirteenth century, when
the Earl of Desmond refused to attend a Parliament-
ary summons, the Lord Deputy, raising the King's
standard, marched into Minister, seized his possessions,
and executed Eustace le Poer as one of his chief ad-
herents.f Amongst the Irish Magnates and Captains
who, in 1314, accompanied Edward the Second in
his expedition against Scotland, were John le Poer,
Arnold le Poer, and Peter le Poer, Knight. In 1320,
Meyler le Poer was Bishop of Leighlin, as was Eobert
Poer, of Waterford and Lismore, in 1446. The
Attainders of 1641 include David Fitz-John Power of
Prowhus ; Edmund, alias Naghton Power of Drome-
nyne ; and Eobert Power of Castletown, all in the
County of Cork. The Supreme Council of Kilkenny
in 1646 had David 'Poor' of Clonmore, and John
Power of Kilmacdan of its members. The Declara-
tion of Eoyal thanks in the Act of Settlement parti-
cularly notices Mr. David ' Powre' of Kilbolane, and
Captain Edmund Power of Inch, County of Cork.

Besides this Lieutenant-Colonel John and Captain
Patrick in this Eegiment, another John Power was
Lieutenant-Colonel in Sir Michael Creagh's, as was
James Power in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry ;
and the name was commissioned in six other Eegi-
ments of this List. In the Parliament of 1689 sat

* Sir John Davis's Hist. Eel. p. 00.

t Idem, p. 89.

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Power, Earl of Tyrone, in the Peers; while in the

Commons John Power was one of the Members for
the County of Waterford, as was John Power of Kilbo-
lane for the Borough of Charleville. The Attainders
of 1691 include the aforesaid John Power of Kilbolane,
with three others in Cork, four in Carlow, three in
Galway, one in Clare, and thirty-one in Waterford.
On the formation in France of the Brigade Eegiment
styled £ of Dublin,' this John Power was appointed
Colonel, while another John Power, the Lieutenant-
Colonel it would seem of Sir Michael Creagh's, had
the same rank under him.

In 1703, John Power, 1 commonly called Lord
Power,' petitioned Queen Anne, setting forth that
" during the late calamitous times he was kind and
serviceable to divers Protestants, especially in Lime-
rick during the siege, he being then Mayor of the
city ; that he had gone to France and was in the
army there, when encouragement having been given
to him by the late King William, he quitted France,
though offered a Major-Generalship if he remained ;
that the sudden death of that King retarded his in-
terest, but her Majesty having given him licence to
return, he gave up his son to be educated a Protes-
tant, the Queen allowing a yearly maintenance for
his education ; and that she gave himself an appoint-
ment to go and serve the King of Portugal, her ally.
That, during his absence from the kingdom, he was
outlawed as for treason, though, as he relied, he had
neither real nor personal property that could accrue

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711

to the Crown by his outlawry. That, however, by a
recent Act of Parliament such attainder could not be
cleared away but only by another Act of Parliament,
the benefit of which he thereby prayed."*

MAJOR JOHN CHAPPEL,

The name of Chappel, 1 de la Chapelle,' is of record in
Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, when
this family was seised of estates in the County of Cork.
On the death of Maurice de la Chapelle in 1326, his
estates in that county were, according to the profit-
able Royal prerogative of wardships, granted during
the minority of James, his son and heir. In 1347,
John de la Chapelle was appointed a Guardian of
the Peace in that county. Of this rather rare sur-
name was also Dr. William Chappel, born in Notting-
hamshire in 1582, advanced in 1633, on the recom-
mendation of Dr. Laud, then Bishop of London, to
the See of Killaloe ; by the same influence was sworn
Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1633 ; where,
" in order to give the junior students a taste of
government, he established a Roman Commonwealth
among them, to continue during the Christmas vaca-
tion, in which they had their dictator, consuls, cen-
sors, and other officers of the Roman state in great
splendor, "f It may be remarked that this divine
sought preferment in the province where the above

* Folio Pamphlet in Dublin Soc. Lib.

f Ware's Bishops.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY, LIST.

individuals of his name had settled, and in 1638 he
was consecrated Bishop of Cork ; but, when the civil
war of 1641 broke out, he fled to England, and,
dying at Derby in 1649, was buried in the family
grave at Belthorp in Nottinghamshire. The above
Major John, from the regiment in which he took rank,
seems to have been also of Cork. He was a Lieute-
nant-Colonel at Aughrim, where he was taken prisoner.

CAPTAIN MARTIN SUPPLE.

Nothing is known of this officer, but the family was
also of Cork. On the Outlawries of 1691, appears
John ■ Soople' of Kilcolman in that county ; and, at
the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Jane Supple,
otherwise Kenny, claimed her jointure off lands there
forfeited by the above Martin, as did William Supple
a remainder in tail therein. A James Supple, also,
on behalf of himself and his son William, claimed a
remainder in tail out of the same interest ; but all
these petitions were dismissed as cautionary.

CAPTAIN DAVID MAC JONNIN.

Mac Jonnin or Jennings is a name peculiarly located
in the Connaught Counties of Mayo and Gal way ; a
branch is also traced in the County of Down ; ac-
cordingly the Attainders of 1691 include James

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713

Jennings of Tullyard, County of Down ; David, Hu-
bert, Thomas, and Michael Jonyne of Killoran ; and
Francis Jonyne of Skeloghoa in the County of Mayo :
but this Captain does not appear thereon.

CAPTAIN JOHN NOBLE.

At the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Richard
Noble of Dublin married Maria Ryan, heiress of a
castle and some premises in Naas in the County of
Kildare. This officer, it would seem, was a descendant
of that marriage, and the inquisition had on his at-
tainder describes him as John Noble of Blackball,
County of Kildare ; while a George Noble of Birtown
in the same county was also then attainted. So early
as in the reign of Edward the First, Philip le Noble
appears on Irish record. In the time of Henry the
Fourth, John Noble was the incumbent of Drumcar,
County of Louth.

CAPTAIN DANIEL EG AN.

The Sept of Mac Egan was territorially seised of
Clan-Dearmida, a district of the Barony 'of Leitrim,
County of Galway ; within which they had in old
time some castles. They were celebrated Brehons of
Connaught, as also of Munster. Accordingly John
Mac Egan is chronicled as the Brehon of the O'Conor,

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slain at the battle of Athenry in 1316 ; and the Four
Masters commemorate, at 1378, the death of Teigue
Mac Egan, chief Brehon of North Connaught, " a man
of learning, free from pride and arrogance, who kept
a house of general hospitality f and in 1399 they
relate the death of Boothgalach Mac Egan of Ormond,
4 a man learned in the laws and in music, and eminent
for hospitality ;' also of Giolba-na-neev, son of Conor
Mac Egan, Chief Professor of Laws, with many subse-
quent obits, similarly recording their learning and
hospitality. The Attainders of 1642 name Owen
and John Mac Egan of Aghmagh, County of Cork ;
while the Declaration of Eoyal thanks, in the Act of
1662, includes Owen Oge Mac Egan of the County of
Cork,- Adjutant. Besides this officer, four others of
the name appear on the present Army List. The
name of Captain Daniel Egan does not occur on the
Outlawries of 1691 ; but, at the Court of Chichester
House, Daniel 1 Eagan,' a minor, claimed by his
guardian an estate tail in County of Kildare lands as
forfeited by Thomas Egan ; Margaret Egan claimed
a small jointure thereoff ; and Elizabeth, Mary, and
Anne Egan, their daughters, claimed also by their
guardian portions of one hundred pounds for each
thereout ; but all these petitions were dismissed, and
Thomas's estate in that county was in 1703 sold by
the Commissioners of Forfeiture to William Hewetson
of Clough, in the same county, discharged of all said
liabilities. A John Egan forfeited in the confisca-
tions of this time lands in the County of Tipperary ;

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715

off which Pierce Nugent, in right of his wife Mary,
4 who had been theretofore wife of Dan Egan,' (very
probably the above Captain Daniel), claimed her
jointure.

LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE SPENCER.

Although this name is known in Ireland from the
time of Edward the Third, the present officer, whose
Christian name should have been set down as Hugo-
line, not Peregrine, was associated with a more illus-
trious origin, the gifted author of the 4 Faerie Queen.
In 1580, Edmund Spencer accompanied Lord Grey,
then Viceroy of Ireland, as his secretary ; an office
which he held until 1588, when he was appointed
Clerk of the Council of Munster, and on the plant-
ation of that province, he had, in 1591, a grant of
the manor and castle of Kilcolman, with other lands,
containing 3,028 acres, in the Barony of Fermoy ;
and here, on the banks of the Awbeg, the poet's
' gentle Mulla,' was composed the Faerie Queen. He
was not, however, so devoted to the muses as to
neglect the opportunities which his post gave him of
aggrandizing his income, and this by oppression and
injustice, which provoked the vengeance of his vic-
tims ; his house was burned, a little child of his was
consumed in the flames, and he and his wife were
obliged to fly to Dublin ; where, as Mr. Hardiman

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says,* he died of want, leaving two sons, Sylvanus
and Peregrine. Sylvanus had also two sons, Edmund
and William. To the former, Charles the First
granted the manor, castle, &c. of Kilcolman ; but he
dying without issue, the right to Kilcolman survived
to William, whose possession having been intruded
upon during the civil war of 1641, he presented a
petition in 1657 for redress, which was favoured by
Cromwell ; and, although the lands were on the
Eestoration granted under the Act of Settlement to
Lord Kingston, yet were they restored to said Wil-
liam Spencer by a patent grant of 1678, together
with other lands in the Counties of Galway and
Eoscommon, this addition comprising nearly two
thousand acres ; said William, by his wife Barbara,
left a son Nathaniel. The poet's second son, Pere-
grine, died in 1641, seised of the lands of Einney,
near Kilcolman, to which the above Hugoline, his
eldest son, succeded ; but, being a Eoman Catholic,
and having attached himself to the cause of James
the Second, he was outlawed. Thereupon, in 1697,
some impropriate rectories and tithes of which he was
seised were, under the Act of Settlement, conveyed to
augment poor vicarages, while his said estate of Ein-
ney, described as three hundred and thirty-two acres,
&c, was granted by patent to the above Nathaniel,
son of William, as the next Protestant heir of said
Hugoline ; and he, in 1716, sold the lands, &c. of
Ballinasloe, with the fairs and markets there, to

* Irish Minstrelsy, vol. 1, p. 319, &c.

LORD KILMALLOCK'S INFANTRY.

717

Frederick Trench, ancestor of the present Earl of
Clancarty. These fairs became afterwards the most
celebrated in the British Empire. The will of this
Nathaniel Spencer, dated 14th October, 1718, was
proved in 1734, in the Prerogative Court, Dublin.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

sir maurice Eustace's.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. _

[John Wogan, __

Lieutenant-Colonel.]

Major.
James Clinch.
Edward Moore.
John Warren.
Thomas Denn.
Thomas Hussey.
Oliver Rochford.
Cornel. Conan.
James Eustace.
Francis Segrave.
Edward Masterson.
Thomas Sherlock.

Francis Tipper.
Bartholomew Missett.
Richard Warren.
Christopher 'Denne.'
Meyler Hussey.
Michael Berford.
Walter Fitz-Gerald.
Maurice Kelly.
Laurence Segrave.
Richard Eustace.

Simon Hart.

Robert ' Shirlock.
Edward Lawless.
John Hussey.
Ulysses ' Bourk.'
Maurice Fitz-Gerald.
Patrick Godding.

Kehoe.

John Eustace.

COLONEL SIR MAURICE EUSTACE.
De Borgo relies upon an inscription on a monument

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

in the Church of St. Sextus, as deriving this family
from the Roman martyr St. Eustachius. Declining,
however, to adopt such apocryphal deductions of
pedigree, it will suffice here to state that the Irish
branch of this family may be traced to that ' adven-
turer of the first water,' Maurice Fitz-Gerald, to
whom Henry the Second gave the Barony of Naas.
His relative Eustace, the founder of this name, inhe-
rited the northern parts thereof, with part of the
Barony of Kilcullen ; and a descendant of his, Rich-
ard Fitz-Eustace, was Baron of Castlemartin in
1200 ; while others became Barons of Harristown
and Portlester. In 1356, a member of the family
founded the Dominican friary at Naas, and, according
to De Burgo, in due reverence to their reputed
origin, dedicated it to St. Eustachius. In 1373,
Thomas, Archbishop of Dublin, appointed Thomas,
son of Almaric Fitz-Eustace, Constable of the Castle
of Ballymore, with a salary of £10 per annum, pro-
vided he should reside there with his family, and
govern the tenants without extortion, and guard and
maintain the fortress. In 1454, Sir Edward Fitz-
Eustace, being Lord Deputy of Ireland, ' a warlike
Knight and fitted for a government which required
activity and vigour,' routed the O'Connors of Offaley
in that memorable engagement, where Leland records
the generous contest between a father and son of the
House, each seeking, by self-devotion, to save the other
from the vengeance of the enemy. Sir Roland
Eustace, son of Sir Edward of Harristown, was

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719

created Baron of Portlester, with the manor annexed
in tail male ; and afterwards was appointed Lord
Chancellor and Treasurer of Ireland. In 1462, he
founded the Franciscan monastery of New Abbey, in
the County of Kildare ; and also the beautiful struc-
ture called from him Portlester's Chapel, within the
precincts of St. Audoen's parish church, Dublin. In
1475, he and Sir Robert Eustace were the two most
noble and worthy persons appointed to represent the
County of Kildare, on the first formation of the
honorable order of St. George. The former after-
wards, in his zeal for the house of York, credulously
espoused the cause of the pretender Lambert Simnel,
but was pardoned on doing homage to Sir Richard
Edgecombe. In 1472, Oliver, son of Sir Roland,
Lord Portlester, was raised to be a Baron of the Irish
Exchequer.

In 1580, the Eustaces took part with the oppressed
O'Tooles, and joined them in resisting the wild expe-
dition of Lord Gray through the romantic pass of
Glenmolaur for their extermination. Fitz-Eustace,
Viscount Baltinglas, and his adherents were conse-
quently attainted, and their confiscated estates were,
in 1605, granted to Sir Henry Harrington, Knight,
" in regard that he had been a very good, ancient,
and long servitor in the late wars and rebellion in
Ireland." The Attainders of 1642 name John Fitz-
Christopher Eustace of Baltrasney, County of Kil-
dare ; Maurice Eustace of Castlemartin, Roland of
Blackhall, and twelve others in the said county ; five

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

in the County of Wicklow, and two in that of
Dublin. Oliver and Thomas Eustace, also, though
not named on the Outlawries of that period, forfeited
estates in the Barony of Upper Cross, County of
Dublin. In 1639, the Irish House of Commons
elected Mr. Sergeant Maurice Eustace their Speaker,
'a wise, learned, and discreet man, and of great
integrity.' During the ensuing civil war, he con-
ducted negotiations between the conflicting parties,
in a manner that elicited, in 1647, from the Com-
mons a vote of thanks i for his singular affection to
the English nation.' He had been, in 1644, ap-
pointed Master of the Eolls, and in 1660 was raised
to the Chancery Bench. He died in 1665, having,
by his will of that date, bequeathed his chief estates
in Kildare, Dublin, and Wicklow, together with the
Abbey of Cong, County of Mayo, and its appurte-
nances, severally, to his nephews Sir John and the
above Sir Maurice Eustace, in tail male. He also
devised to the Provost and Board of Trinity College,
Dublin, a rent-charge of £20 per annum, chargeable
on the great house built by him in Dame-street, for
the maintenance of a Hebrew lecturer in that estab-
lishment ; and directed his interment in the old
family vault at Castlemartin. The latter direction
was not, however, complied with ; he was buried in
St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Royal declaration of
thanks in 1662 includes James Eustace, styled of
Culadain, County of Wexford.

A funeral entry of 1684, in Bermingham Tower,

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721

states the death in that year of John Eustace, son of
Maurice, son of William, of Castlemartin, and conse-
quently a brother of this Colonel Sir Maurice. He
had married (states the document) Margaret, daughter
of Edward Keating of Narraghmore, in said county,
by whom he had three sons, Maurice, John, and
Thomas. The former, Maurice, married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Thomas Newcome, Knight ; John, the
second son, had four daughters. In two years after,
the present Sir Maurice was constituted a Privy
Councillor. Besides him, Richard Eustace of Barrets-
town was Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Gormanston's
Infantry ; and in Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons, Nicho-
las Eustace was a Captain, and Christopher a Lieute-
nant. The latter, it would seem, was taken prisoner
at the siege of Deny, in the attack at the Windmill,*
while this Lieutenant-Colonel was there wounded.
On the 10th of May, 1689, King James, in a letter to
Lieutenant-General Hamilton, then encamped before
Derry, writes, " I am sending down one great mortar
and two pieces of battery by land, and the same num-
ber of both by sea ; it was actually impossible to
despatch them sooner. Ten companies of Eustace's will
be soon with you, all well armed and clothed. "f It is
remarkable that on this very day the bill recognizing
his title, &c. was read the third time in his parliament
and presence. James Eustace and Maurice Eustace sat
there as representatives of the Borough of Blessington.

* Walkers Siege of Derry, p. 60.

f King James's Letters, Trinity College MSS. E. 2 19.

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king james's irish army list.

The Attainders of 1691 include the above Lieutenant-
Colonels, Maurice Eustace, styled of Castlemartin,
Baronet, and Kichard of Barretstown, County of
Dublin ; with ten others of the name in the County
of Kildare, eight in Carlo w, and two in Wicklow.
Maurice Eustace, styled of Yeomanstown, County of
Kildare, being then absent from Ireland, had, in Octo-
ber, 1691, on the capitulation of Limerick, a reserva-
tion of the benefit of the Civil Articles then agreed
upon, see ante, p. 347. An Inquisition taken at the
close of the year, (14th March) 1690, on Francis
Eustace, in regard to his possessions in the Baronies
of Forth and Idrone in the County of Carlow, finds
that he and his son and heir Oliver were in actual
rebellion on the 1st of May, 1689, against the King
and Queen ; and that after the battle of the Boyne,
they departed with Kichard, Earl of Tyrconnel,
William, Earl of Limerick, and other rebels and
traitors, beyond the Shannon, and had there continued
in actual war and rebellion ; whereupon the jurors
found their respective freehold estates in both baronies.
In 1697, an Act was passed for settling certain recto-
ries according to the will of Sir Maurice Eustace ; and
in 1720, another statute authorized the sale of his
lands for the payment of his debts. At the Court of
Claims in 1700, various claims were preferred as
affecting the confiscations of the above Sir Maurice
Eustace, as also those of Francis and Oliver Eustace
in Carlow, and Alexander, Thomas, and Katherine
Eustace in Kildare.

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723

[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN WOGAN.]

This commission is filled from Doctor King's Appen-
dix, but does not appear upon the present Army List.
Any available illustrations of the family have been
therefore anticipated in the notices of Major James
Wogan, ante, p. 539,

CAPTAIN JAMES CLINCH.

This name is of record in Ireland since the time of
Edward the Second. Those attainted in 1642 were
Eichard Clinch of Cappah, Henry of Kill, and
Anne his wife. In 1691, only Peter and Simon
Clinch, described as of the College, Dublin, were out-
lawed. A James Clinch, described as of Dunshaugh-
lin, County of Meath, was, in June, 1747, married to
Sarah Wood of the same place, at Holyhead,* the
penal laws affecting Ireland necessitating the celebra-
tion of this union out of that kingdom.

CAPTAIN THOMAS DENN.

Thomas Den succeeded to the See of Ferns in 1363.
Peter Denn, as son and heir of William Denn, late of

* Registry at Holyhead, wherein, as also in that at Bangor, are
many other certificates of Irish families married under similar
circumstances, as noted off by the compiler of this volume.

AAA 2

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king james's irisii army list.

Muckully in the County of Kilkenny, had livery of his
estates in May, 1640. In the Attainders of 1642,
occur Thomas and Christopher Den of Saggard, County
of Dublin. In the grants, soon after the Restoration,
of Kilkenny lands to William Poulter, to William
Warden, to Christopher Hewetson, to Anthony Hor-
sey, to Barnard Annaly, to George Deyos, and to
Anthony Stampe, are several savings of the rights of
Theobald Denn, in the various subjects of conveyance,
under his decree of innocence in 1663. Tobias Den
of G-renan, (where he had a noble castle) in the
same county, was attainted in 1691, as was William
Den of Saggard. A farm at the latter locality was
forfeited by Thomas Den, the fee of which was claim-
ed by and allowed to John Den.

CAPTAIN THOMAS HUSSEY.

This family, Hussey or Hoese, is of Norman extrac-
tion. On the first invasion of Ireland, Sir Hugh
Hussey, who had married the sister of Theobald Fitz-
Walter, the first Butler of that Kingdom, obtained a
grant from Hugh de Lacie of large possessions in the
County of Meath, including the locality of Galtrim ; in
right of which this family took the palatine title of
Barons of Galtrim; while within the circuit of the
same county, ancient Meath, the Petits were Barons
of Mullingar, the DAltons of Eathconrath, Nangles of
Navan, Marwards of Serine, etc. etc. In 1374, Sir

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725

John Hussey, Knight, Baron of Galtrim, was sum-
moned to Parliament ; as was his son Edmund Hussey,
Baron of Galtrim, to those of 1380 and 1382 ; and
Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed Gentry, gives the
succession of these Barons to the time of Queen Eli-
zabeth, early in whose reign a member of the family,
obtaining a grant of lands from the Earl of Desmond,
settled in the County of Kerry, and established the
name there, where it still exists. An Act of Henry the
Eighth, in 1534, recognizing Nicholas Hussey as then
Baron of Galtrim, united the parsonage thereof, there-
tofore claimed to be of said Nicholas' patronage, to the
monastery of St. Peter's by Trim. The Attainders of
1642 proscribe nine of this name in Meath and two
in Kildare, of whom two were, in Cromwell's Ordinance
of Denunciation in 1652, exempted from pardon for
life and estate. Besides the three Husseys in this
Eegiment, James Hussey was a Lieutenant in Lord
Louth's Infantry. In the Parliament of 1 6 8 9, Maurice
Hussey of Flesk Bridge (hereafter alluded to) was one
of the Representatives of the Borough of Tralee. He
married Clare, daughter of Sir Edward Hales, Baronet,
who was created by James, after his abdication, Earl
of Tenderden. John Hussey was one of the Repre-
sentatives of Dingle-i-couch, as was another, John
Hussey of Ratoath. Nine of the name were in 1691
attainted in Meath, three in Kerry, one in Louth, with
Edward Hussey of Westown in the County of Dublin.

This last individual (Edward of Westown), though
not named in the present Army List, was engaged for

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James in this campaign, and attained the rank of
Colonel ; by which title he was by the Council Board
adjudged entitled to the benefit of the Articles of
Limerick. He is also so styled in a family settlement
executed by his mother-in-law, the Countess of Fingal,
in 1693, and in various other ancient deeds. In a
chauntry of the old church at the Naul, near Westown
House, is still preserved a mural slab, stating that
the Honorable Colonel Hussey and his lady, Madame
Mable Hussey, otherwise Barnewall, had erected this
chapel and monument, for their use and that of their
posterity, in 1710.* John Hussey of Culmullen had
also a pardon under the great seal, and James Hussey,
having, like Colonel Edward, obtained a judicial ac-
knowledgment of his right to the benefit of the Articles
of Limerick, preferred a claim at Chichester House, in
1700, to the Meath estates of his ancestor, Thomas
Hussey; at which time Jane Hussey, otherwise Tel-
ling, by her husband Thomas Telling, and on behalf
of Christopher and Lucy, their eldest son and daughter,
and Edward, Val, Mary, Catherine, and Ellen, minors,
their younger children, claimed jointure for herself
and portions for them, off the Meath estates of said
Thomas Hussey ; but their petitions were dismissed as
cautionary. These estates were afterwards purchased
by Isaac Holroyd. A Colonel Maurice Hussey (pos-
sibly he of Flesk Bridge in the County of Kerry,
above mentioned) yielded to the altered state of gov-
ernment, and some of his letters to Secretary South-

* D' Alton's Hist. County of Dublin, p. 486.

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well in the time of Queen Anne are in the Southwell
collection.* In one dated 7th June, 1703, he writes
complaining of a severe visitation of the gout, and
adds, "Here was lately a foolish report that spread
over all our mountains, that several Irish Eegiments
were to he immediately raised for the Queen's service,
to go into Portugal, and that I was to have one.
Upon this rumour, all the Milesian Princes of these
parts flocked to my house, to offer their service to go
along with me to any part of the world; and they
would scarce believe but that I had my commission in
my pocket, and I could not but take their offers and
readiness for the Queens service kindly, and made
them all as welcome as my poor house could afford,
and that, I 'phancie,' has brought this fit of the
'goute' upon me. Mac Cartie More, O'Sullivan More,
O'Donohue More, Mac Gillicuddy, Mac Finin, O'Leary,
and a long et ccetera of the best gentlemen of the Irish
of these parts, are, in a manner, mad to be employed
in her Majesty's service abroad, and swear I must
go at the head of them, whether I will or no." A
comment on this Colonel's correspondence says, "Not-
withstanding his observations, there is every reason to
suspect the Colonel of being a Jacobite. His patron
the Duke of Ormond, Southwell, and the whole
body were silent favourers of the Stuart interests."

The Colonel Edward Hussey, before mentioned,
was grandfather of an Edward Hussey of Westown,
who married in 1743 the celebrated Duchess of

* Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. pp. 227-8.

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Manchester, and was created Earl Beaulieu in
1784. There have been several of the Husseys since
signalized in the Austrian armies ; one, Anthony, a
son of Anthony Stronge Hussey, the inheritor of
Westown House, D. L., is at present a Brevet Major
in that service.

CAPTAIN OLIVER ROCHFORT.

This name is traced in Irish records from the first
year of the English invasion. In 1194, Simon Roch-
fort succeeded to the See of Meath. In the subsequent
century, when Edward the First invited the aid of the
Magnates of Ireland, to accompany him in the war on
Scotland, he summoned no less than six of this name.
In 1337, Maurice Rochfort succeeded to the See of
Limerick, and in 1464, at a Parliament held in Wex-
ford, an act was passed to assure a part of the manor
of Rathconrath, County of Westmeath, to Robert and
Roger Rochfort. The Attainders of 1642 name three
Rochforts in Kildare, four in Meath, and one in the
County of Dublin. Of the Supreme Council of Kil-
kenny in 1646, were Hugh Rochfort of Taghmon, and
John of Kilbride. In March, 1651, a Colonel Roch-
fort was tried by Court Martial in St. Patrick's Ca-
thedral, Dublin, for adherence to the Royalist cause,
in opposition to the usurping powers ; while, in the
Act of Settlement (1662), King Charles especially
thanked Henry Rochfort of Kilbride "for services be-
yond sea." In 1691, the above Captain Oliver was

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attainted, being described as of Fiddolph, County of
Meath ; Christopher of Carronstown and James of
Vesingstown, in the same county, were also then out-
lawed. It is to be remarked that a Robert Rochfort
(it would seem of the aforesaid Westmeath branch)
was in 1700 nominated on commission a Keeper of
the Great Seal, and in 1707 was appointed Chief
Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

LIEUTENANT CONEL COONAN.

This officer was attainted in 1691 by the style of
4 Cornelius ' Coonan of Kilcock, in the County of
Kildare ; nothing further is known of him or his
family.

CAPTAIN FRANCIS SEGRAVE.

See ante, Captain John Segrave in the King's Own
Infantry. In 1322, Stephen Segrave, who had been
theretofore Rector of Stepney near London, was ap-
pointed to the Primacy of Armagh. Of him King
Edward the Third wrote, soon after his accession, to
the Pope, commending him for " the nobility of his
birth, the integrity of his morals, his eminent sanctity,
and approved diligence in his pastoral function."*
In 1401, Richard 1 Sydegrave ' was appointed a Baron

* Ware's Bishops, p. 81.

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of the Irish Exchequer, and in 1423 was promoted to be
Chief of that Bench, In 1578, another Eichard Segrave
was also a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, which
station he filled for twenty years, when dying he was
buried at Killeglan. A branch of the family having
settled at Cabragh in the County of Dublin, it is of
record that Henry Segrave, on coming of age in 1638,
sued out, according to the then still existing law of
wardship, a licence for 1 livery ' of his estates at Cab-
ragh. In the following year, Eichard Segrave, of
Ballybogliill in the last mentioned county, was the
King's Escheator. Patrick Segrave of Killeglan was
one of the influential Catholics who attended the
great meeting of Tara in 1641, and was consequently
attainted in the following year. The above Captain
Francis was of Fryarstown, County of Kildare ; John
Segrave of Cabragh was a Captain in the King's In-
fantry, and Laurence was a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice
Eustace's.

In 1783, died at his seat of Cabragh John Segrave,
Colonel of the Finglas Volunteers ; he was interred
with all military honours at St. James's churchyard,
long the chosen place of sepulture for the upper class
of Irish Catholics.

CAPTAIN EDWAED MASTEESON.

This family is located on Ortelius's map in the
Barony of Shelmaliere, County of Wexford ; and,

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accordingly, this officer is described in his attainder
as of Money fad in that county ; the others then
attainted being John, Richard, Nicholas, and Domi-
nick Masterson ' of Tomcoil,' and Alexander of Lydon,
in the same county.

CAPTAIN THOMAS SHERLOCK.

Ortelius's map locates the Sherlocks in the Barony
of Middlethird, County of Wexford. The name
appears on Irish records from the time of the Tudors,
and is traced on the evidence of records in the seve-
ral Counties of Kildare, Tipper ary, and Waterford.
Henry the Fifth conferred the Chief Serjeantcy of the
County of Kildare on Walter ' Sherlok who had
from his son and successor, in 1432, a treasury order
for five pounds, on account of his 'great labours' in
the County of Kilkenny and marches of the Pale, as
well as in collecting a state subsidy within the Dio-
cese of Ossory. In 1499, James Sherlock was
appointed a Justice in Eyre. In 1616, John Fitz-
James Sherlock, of Waterford City, Esq., had a grant
from the Crown of the wardship of John Fitz-George
Sherlock, son and heir of Sir George Sherlock, Knight,
deceased. A Funeral entry of 1636 in Bermingham
Tower, shows the death in that year of Richard Sher-
lock, late Sovereign of the Naas, third son of Edward
Sherlock of said place, where he was interred. The
Attainders of 1642 present Edward Sherlock of

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Blackball and Clane ; with Thomas of Naas, in the
County of Kildare ; and George of Wicklow, merchant.
The Act of Settlement (1662) included in the clause
for Eoyal gratitude Sir Thomas Sherlock, Knight.

Besides the above Captain Thomas, who was of
Blackhall, County of Kildare, Christopher Sherlock of
Littlerath in same county was a Captain in Fitz-
James's Foot, and Eobert Sherlock of Carlow was an
Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's. They were all
attainted in 1691, together with Edward Sherlock,
also of Blackhall, and who had been one of the Bepre-
sentatives of the ancient Borough of Cloghmyne,
County of Wexford, in the Parliament of 1689.
There were then also attainted three other Sherlocks in
the County of Kildare, and four in that of Waterford.
The above Christopher of Littlerath forfeited various
rectories and tithes in the Counties of Carlow
and Kildare, which were, under the Act of Settlement,
conveyed to the Trustees for augmenting vicarages ;
while the estates in the latter county, also forfeited by
said Christopher, were in 1703 purchased from the
Trustees of the forfeitures by Geoffry Paul of Bally-
raggin. These interests of Christopher were the
subject of much subsequent litigation.

LIEUTENANT MICHAEL BERFORD.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the First. In 1314, Richard de Berford was

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Chancellor of Ireland, having been previously on a
commission, to enquire into the rights in the weirs and
waters of the Liffey, between Dublin and the Salmon
Leap. In 1403, Simon 4 Berfford ' was one of those
appointed to assess and array the men of the Barony
of Katoath, County of Meath. On his death, in ten
years after, his estates of Eilrowe, &c. in said county
became vested in the Crown during the minority of
his heir, whose wardship and marriage were thereupon
granted to Thomas ' Barre,' rent-free. Branches of
the family were at this time proprietors in Lagore and
Scurlockstown, in the same county. In the reign of
Elizabeth, Michael Berford was the proprietor of Kil-
rowe, as heir of the before mentioned Simon. In
1618, Nichols 'Byrforcl ' was seized of Newtown near
Trim, Culmullen and Scurlockstown, in the County of
Meath ; and in 1633, John Berford died seized of
Kilrowe, leaving Michael his cousin and heir, then
aged thirty years and married. It seems probable
that he was the grandfather of the above officer.

ENSIGN PATRICK GODDING.
Tins name does not appear on the Attainders.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

EARL OF WESTMEATH'S, LATE COLONEL FRANCIS TOOLE'S,

Captains.
The Colonel.
Michael de la Hoyde,

Lieutenant-ColoneL
Gowan Talbot,

Major.
John White.
John Doyle.
Thomas Cowdall.
Garrett Byrne,
John Byrne.
Hen. Nugent,

Grenad.

Lieutenants,
John Doyle.

John Toole.
Bryan M'Donnelh
Garrett Nowlan.
Matthew Kearney.

Ensigns.

Daniel Doyle.
Matthew Cowdall.
Patrick Carroll.
Miles Barnewall.

COLONEL THE EARL OF WESTMEATH.

The materials, which the compiler of this work has
amassed for illustrating the noble name of Nugent,
would fill a large volume. Its descent from the
illustrious house of Bellesme, and its alliances with
the Royalty of England and Spain are shown at
length in the Peerage of Sir Bernard Burke. In Ire-
land it is of record from the time when Hugh de
Lacy, the powerful Palatine of Meath, granted the
territory of Delvin to Gilbert de Nugent. In 1449,
Eichard Nugent, Lord Delvin, was Lord Deputy of
Ireland. In 1463, Christopher, the eleventh Baron
of Delvin, was one of the Irish Peers whom Henry's

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policy, after his victory at Stoke over the adherents
of Lambert Simnel, invited to a feast at Greenwich,
where that impostor was forced to attend as a menial
at the Royal table. In 1570, Nicholas Nugent was
constituted a Baron of the Irish Exchequer ; and in
1621, Eichard, Baron of Delvin, was created Earl of
Westineath. The inquisitions taken on the name in
1642 were three in Meath, three in Kildare, and
eight in the County of Cork ; while Cromwell's Par-
liamentary denunciation of 1652 excepted from par-
don for life and estate Eichard Nugent, Earl of West-
meath. He was the grandfather of Thomas, the Earl
under present consideration, who had married when
about sixteen years of age, after which he went to
travel, and on his return obtained the command of
this Eegiment. In 1686, James Nugent was Sheriff
of Longford, as was Thomas Nugent Sheriff of West-
meath, and John of Waterford in the same year. In
King James's succeeding Charters to the Corpor-
ations of Ireland, this name appears in office in those
of Dublin, Drogheda, Swords, New Eoss, Derry, Dun-
garvan, and St. Johnstown, County of Donegal.

Earl Thomas's Eegiment is very incomplete on the
present Muster, and has but one of his own name.
In the other Eeginients of the List it is very numer-
ously displayed, as in Sarsfield's Horse, in Lord Don-
gan's Dragoons, and in Fitz-James's, Tyrone's, Sir
Thomas Butler's, and Sir Michael Creagh's respective
Eegiments of Infantry. Colonel Eichard Nugent
commanded another Eegiment of Infantry ; James

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Nugent was Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel John
Hamilton's, while a Colonel Walter Nugent is recorded
as having been killed at the battle of Aughrim.* In
King James's Parliament of 1689, this Earl sat in
the House of Peers, though then under age, by a simi-
lar Royal dispensation to that accorded to the Earl of
Clancarty, as before mentioned {ante p. 504), and
notwithstanding that his elder brother, the rightful
Earl, was then living, but in holy orders and abroad.
In the Commons, Colonel James Nugent was one of
the Representatives of St. Johnstown, County of Done-
gal ; the Honourable William one of those for the
County of Westmeath. (He was the youngest son of
Richard, the second Earl of Westmeath, and distin-
guished himself in King James's service, especially by
forcing the pass over the bridge at Portglenone in
April, 1689, to facilitate approach to the siege of
Derry ; he was killed at Cavan in 1690, leaving
issue by his wife, who was a daughter of Sir Thomas
Newcomen ; but they all died, s. P.f ) Edward
Nugent of Garlanstown represented the Borough of
Mullingar ; John Nugent of Donore, and Christopher
of Dardistown were the Members for that of Fore ;
and Christopher Nugent of Dublin was one for that of
Strabane. On the second day of the session, 8th of
May, 1689, the Chief Justice Nugent, then just cre-
ated Lord Baron Riverston (uncle of the Earl under
present consideration), brought in a Bill, which was

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 455

t Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 1, p. 244.

EARL OF WESTMEATIl's INFANTRY.

737

read twice that day, containing " a recognition of
King James's title, and an abhorrence of the Prince of
Orange's usurpation and of the defection of the English."
On the 10th, it received the third reading, (King
James being himself present in the House), and was
sent down to the Commons, where it was passed on
the following day ; when the same mover intro-
duced the Bill for encouraging trade and merchant
strangers, and on the 13th the more memorable Act
for altering the Act of Settlement.

This talented member of the name was settled at
Pallace in the County of Galway ; and, having at-
tained much eminence at the bar, was appointed
King's Council in 1685, and in the following year
promoted to the King's Bench as one of the Justices ;
the King directing that he, Denis Daly, a Justice of
the Common Pleas, and Charles Ingleby, a Baron of
the Exchequer, should be admitted to their respec-
tive offices without taking the oath of supremacy.
In 1687, he succeeded to the Chief Justiceship of that
Bench, and was on the 3rd of April, 1689, created
Baron Riverston. It is to be especially remarked,
that the date of this creation was seven days before
that on which the rebellion was declared by the Irish
Act of 9 Will. 3, c. 2, to have commenced in that
country; nor was it until November, 1689, that Wil-
liam and Mary, theretofore Prince and Princess of
Orange, were declared Sovereigns of England, France,
and Ireland. With such a title, Lord Iiiverston sat
a Peer in the Parliament of May, 1689. After the

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disastrous issue of the battle of the Boyne, he was one
of those who advised King James to fly to France,
himself still continuing to hold the office of Secretary of
State ; and when Tyrconnel, after the defeat of King
William from before Limerick, felt necessitated to pass
over to the Exile's Court at St. Germains, and to
place the government of Ireland in the hands of the
Duke of Berwick, that young and inexperienced
nobleman was induced by some factious insinuation to
dismiss Lord Rivers ton from the Secretaryship of
War, which he then held* and actually to confine him
a prisoner in Galway. On the return of Tyrconnel,
however, to Ireland, he was immediately released. In
two days after the capitulation of Limerick, he receiv-
ed from Lieutenant-General de Ginkel the following
recognition of his title. It recites that " whereas the
Right Honourable Thomas Lord Riverston is com-
prehended in the late capitulation with the Irish
army at Limerick, and thereby entitled to be restored
to his real and personal estate, and to all other advan-
tages accruing by the said capitulation ; and whereas
the said Lord Riverston made suit to me for His
Majesty's protection for himself, his family, and ten-
ants, and for my passport and licence to use and carry
fire-arms, I do hereby receive the said Lord Rivers-
ton into their Majesties' special protection, with his
family, servants, real and personal estates, and his
tenants, their families and personal estates ; and do
hereby empower the said Lord Riverston and his ser-
vants to carry and use three cases of pistols, three

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 423.

EARL OF WESTMEATIl's INFANTRY.

739

swords, and two firelocks for the defence of his person,
house, stock, and goods, and do hereby order all
officers civil and military in the respective counties,
where any part of his real estates lies, to restore him
to the possession thereof, and to be aiding and assist-
ing to him in order to receive the issues and profits
thereof, as at any time heretofore ; and I do hereby
command all officers civil and military, in the respec-
tive garrisons between Limerick and Galway, to suffer
the said Lord Riverston, his lady, family, servants,
goods, and carriages, to pass peaceably from Limerick
to Galway, or his dwelling-house in the County of
Galway, or to any other part of the Kingdom as his
occasion may require ; and all governors and com-
manders-in-chief in Limerick, and all other garrisons
between Limerick and his said house, are hereby re-
quired to furnish him with a sufficient convoy from
garrison to garrison, from Limerick to his said house
of abode ; whereof all persons concerned are to take
notice at their peril. Given at the Camp before
Limerick, this 5th of October, 1691. Signed Bar.
de Ginkell."* It is an awful document to look upon !
He was, however, attainted, and his title disallowed,
as conferred after James had abdicated the English
Crown ; nevertheless, he continued to sit for some
time as Chief Justice, and is so styled in King's Ap-
pendix, p. 66. He had married the Honourable Mary
Anne Barnewall, daughter of Viscount Kingsland, by

* Copied from the original, in the possession of Lord "Rivers-
ton's heir male.

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whom he had issue three sons and five daughters.
He remained in the Kingdom after the Revolution,
and died in 1715.

The eldest son, Richard Hyacinth Nugent, who was
attainted in 1696, fled to France, and there remained
until 1727; previous to which, on his proof that he
was but six years of age at the time of his attainder,
and that he had conformed to the Protestant religion,
King George consented to the passing of a Bill in the
English Parliament, whereby this exile was permitted
to return, and certain privileges were secured to him
for the recovery of his lands, rents, &c* The title
of Riverston was subsequently borne by the succeed-
ing heirs male of the first Lord ; but the present heir,
Anthony-Francis Nugent, declined its assumption.

At the Battle of the Boyne, Robert Nugent, a Cor-
net in Tyrconnel's Horse, was wounded. In three
days after, three ecclesiastics of the name were pre-
sented, as by the authority of King James, to Irish
benefices : Dr. William Nugent to the Rectory of
Castletown-Delvin, Dr. Oliver Nugent to those of
Ardmulchan, Ballynagarvy, and Timole, and the
Reverend Richard Nugent to the Rectory of Carrick.
In 1691, the Earl, who was Colonel of this Regiment,
was indicted ; but he having been one of the hostages
exchanged for the due observance of the articles of
Limerick, the outlawry was reversed, and he was
restored to his estates and honours. He died in

* The perception of the rents of these estates during the exile
of Richard Hyacinth was the cause of some family litigation.

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1752, at the advanced age of 96. Others of the
name then attainted were three in Meath, forty-five
in Westmeath, fonr in Dublin, one in Cavan, five in
Roscommon ; in Waterford three, Cork three, Drogh-
eda two, and in Donegal one. At the Conrt of
Claims various petitions were preferred as for charges
affecting the several estates of Sir John Nugent,
Baronet, of Colonel Richard Nugent, and Sir Thomas
Nugent, of Christopher Nugent in Roscommon and
Westmeath, and of James Nugent in the latter county ;
while the above Earl and the aforesaid Thomas, Lord
Riverston, as Executors of Richard, late Earl of West-
meath, claimed and were allowed the benefit of a
mortgage affecting Dardistown and other lands.

On the Continent, 4 Nugent's Horse' served in
Flanders in 1706 and 1707. It formed part of the
wing of the forces commanded by Yendome at the
battle of Oudenarde, in 1708 ; served in 1711 in
Flanders, under Villeroy, against Marlborough ;* and
at Spirebach, ' Nugent's Horse' brought victory to the
cause in which they were engaged, by a brave and
successful attack upon two Regiments of Cuirassiers,

completely armed, f A John Nugent, second son

of James of Ballinacor, entered the French service,
was Captain in Fitz-James's Regiment of Cavalry, and
particularly distinguished himself at Fontenoy, on
which occasion he obtained the Cross of St. Louis.
He married the daughter of Commodore Pearson, on

* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 339 and 3G0.
| Ferrar's Limerick, p. 346.

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whose death he left the service, and, retiring to Bal-
linacor, died there in 1779, without issue,

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MICHAEL
DELAHIDE.

This family is upon Irish record from the days of
Richard the Second. In 1527, Christopher De la
Hide was a Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, to the
Chief-Justiceship of which Court Richard De la Hide
was elevated in 1532. In five years after, the Act
for the Attainders consequent upon the Geraldine re-
bellion included 1 that most false, disloyal traytor,
James Delahyde,' 4 the principal councillor of the Lord
Thomas Fitz-Gerald in all his doings,' (son and heir
of Walter de la Hyde of Moy glare, Knight), with
John de la Hide and Edward Delahide, Parson of
Kilbery, and divers others. By a subsequent Statute
of Queen Elizabeth, however, in 1585, after reciting
these attainders of the Delahide family, Laurence de
la Hide, the son of said James, and grandson of Sir
Walter of Moyglare, was, by the Queen and Parlia-
ment, restored to his ancient blood and lineage. In
1642, Francis Delahyde of Phepoestown, County of
Dublin, was attainted ; as was Nicholas 'Delahoyde' of
Carnagh, County of Kildare in 1691. Colonel
Michael appears to have been of the Moyglare line,
but no certain notice of him has been discovered.

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743

CAPTAIN JOHN WHITE.

This name is traceable on the records of Ireland from
the period of the Invasion. The Abbe McGeoghegan,
indeed, suggests that Walter White, in Henry the
Second's time Governor over a certain district of
South W ales, came over then to Ireland with his bro-
thers, who scattered themselves over that country,
their chief house being at Leixlip. Ortelius's map
more especially locates the name in the County of
Down. In 1422, John White was Attorney-General
of Ireland. Sir Patrick White of Kilsallaghan was a
Baron of the Exchequer from 1535 to 1559. In
1572, Nicholas ' Whyte' of Whyte's Hall, was
appointed Master of the Bolls there ; soon after which
a ' Colonel John White,' who was born in Waterforcl
in 1568, settled at Tirlemont in the Netherlands, and
became founder of a branch of the family traceable in
the foreign armies* and believed to be only recently
extinct. Another emigrant, Dominick White, passed
off in the time of James the First, from Limerick to
Bourdeaux, where he settled. He was seised of con-
siderable house property in that city, which he had
theretofore conveyed to the use of his son Richard,
with remainders in tail male to other sons of his, viz.,
Stephen, Edward, and Bartholomew. In 1637,
Alison, heiress of Patrick White of Clonmel, had
livery of her estates ; as had Sir Nicholas White of
the manor of Leixlip in the same year ; and Edward

* O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 342.

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of Balrathnesly, County of Wexford, as son and heir
of Richard White, with similar licences of livery for
the Whites of Clongell, County of Meath. The
Attainders of 1642 name James White of Carberry,
County of Kildare, clerk ; with Patrick of Eoddens-
town, and James and Nicholas of Clongell, in the
County of Meath. In the Supreme Council of 1646
sat John White of Clonmel ; while the Act of Settle-
ment named a John White, possibly the same, though
described as of Loyhall, County of Limerick, with ex-
press acknowledgment of Eoyal gratitude for his
services beyond the sea. Besides the above Captain
John, the name of White appears commissioned in six
other Eegiments of this List.

In the Parliament of Dublin, Eoland White was one
of the Eepresentatives of Newry, Alderman Nicholas
White of the Borough of Clonmel, Nicholas White of
New Eoss, merchant, of that of Cloughmine, and
Charles White of the Borough of Naas. This last
was of the Leixlip family, afterwards a Privy Coun-
cillor ; he raised an Independent Troop for King
James's service. The Member for Newry, Eoland
White, had a saving of the benefit of the Articles of
Limerick, on the same grounds, and subject to the
same conditions as in the case of Colonel Simon Lut-
trel. On the Attainders of 1691 the above Captain
John is described as of Bally more in the County of
Westmeath, with three others of the same locality,
Ignatius White of Dublin, commonly called Marquess
of Abbeville, and seventeen more of the name.

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745

At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Captain White in
Lally's Eegiment was severely wounded.

CAPTAIN JOHN DOYLE.

The O'Doyles were a Sept of Carlo w and Wexford.
On the Attainders of 1642 appear three of the name in
Wicklow, one in Meath, and one in the County of
Dublin. James Doyle of 'Carrig' was of the Supreme
Council at Kilkenny ; and on the present Army List,
besides Captain John, three other Doyles were com-
missioned. Those attainted in 1691 were the above
officer, described as of Arklow, County of Wexford,
three others in the same county, and one in Meath,
Kildare, and Dublin respectively.

CAPTAIN THOMAS COWDALL.

This name, though now rare, is of record in Ireland
from the time of Edward the Second. Nothing, how-
ever, is known of this officer, except that in 1693 he
sued out his pardon from attainder, on the ground
that he had early surrendered himself, and had actually
gone over to the service of King William.*

* Harris's MSS. in Dub. Soc. vol. 10, p. 240.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTKY.

MAJOR GENERAL BOISELEAU'S.

Captains.

The Colonel.
Monsr. Durett.
Callahan M'Carty.
David Colt.
Garrett Coursay.
Donogh Mac Sweeny.
Henry Trant.
Robert Dorney.
Charles M'Carty.
Donogh O'Brien.
Charles M'Carty.
Cornelius Courtain.
Patrick Hide.
Patrick Arthur.
Edmund Barry.
Denis Falvey.
Peter M 'Sweeny.
Miles de Coursy.
David Trant.
Maurice Fitz-Gerald.
Philip Cogan.
John Mahony.
David Barry.
Edmund Barrett.
Garrett Fitz-Gerald.
Daniel O'Herlihey.
Garrett Coursy.

Lieutenants.

De Boucands.
Florence M'Carty.
Edmund Colt,
Garrett Coursey.
Edmund Mac Sweeny.
Redmond Connor.
William Harrold.
Charles M'Carty.
John Condon.
Callahan M'Carty.
Richard Bulman.
James Roche.
Piers Stapleton.
James Baggott.
Dermott Falvey.
Donogh M' Sweeny.
Thomas Butler.
James Trant.
Philip Supple.
John Barry.
Martin Mahony.
David Barry.
Charles M'Carty.
James Quinn.
Daniel O'Herlihey.

Ensigns.

Sr. Phalle.
De la Martiniere.
Teigue Glorney.
Richard Colt.
Denis ' Keefe.'
Symon Mac Sweeny.

Thomas Haly.
Bartholomew Leary.
Gibbon Fitz- Gibbon.
David Roche.
Constans ' Keefe.'
Daniel ' O'Keefe.'
Philip ' Wolfe.'
David Barry.
Hugh Falvey.
Edmund M'Sweeny.
Charles Carty.
Michael Trant.
Edmund Fitz-Gerald.
Donogh M'Carty.
James Mahony.
John Daly.
Teigue M- Carty.
Nat. 'Whyte,'
Garrett Barry.

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MAJOR GENERAL BOISELEAU,

" Boiseleau, a Captain of the French Guards, who had
some knowledge, which none of the Irish had, of the
defence of fortified towns, was sent to Ireland with
the rank of 'Marshal de Camp,' or Major General."*
This his Regiment was styled 4 the Munster,' having
been chiefly raised in that province ; but was early
disbanded. In November, 1689, when King James
was necessitated to break up his camp at Ardee, by
reason of the want of forage there, and to retire to
Drogheda, he left six battalions of Foot and fifty
Horse there, under the command of this Major-Gene-
ral, scattering little garrisons on both sides of it to
secure the country, f Boiseleau soon after made an
attack on Newry, but was repulsed with the loss of a
Lieutenant-Colonel. He was, after the defeat at the
Boyne, appointed Governor of Limerick, before its
first siege by King William, the city having then a
garrison of fourteen Regiments of Infantry, with three
of Horse and two of Dragoons. During that siege he,
the Duke of Berwick, and Sarsfield are recorded as
having been most active in preventing its surrender.
uIn the midst of a cannonade of eighteen pieces of
artillery, supported by a prodigious blaze of musketry
his standard was planted at the top of the breach. "J

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 116.

t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 383.

} O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 374.

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CAPTAIN DAVID COLT.

Nothing more is known of this officer or his family,
except that he was attainted in 1691, by the descrip-
tion of David 'Court' of Ballyammon, County of Cork.

CAPTAINS DONOUGH AND PETER
Mc SWEENY.

The Mac Sweenys were, in their origin, a branch of
the O'Neills, and, settling in Donegal, established there
three great families. They also became distinguished
and influential proprietors in Munster in the thirteenth
century, where they ranked as subfeudatory to the
Mac Cartys, Princes of Desmond. According to
Smith's History of Cork, they located themselves in
the parish of Kilmurry, where they built some castles,
one especially at Clodagh, near Macroom. A Mac
Sweeny, mentioned by the Four Masters at 1397, is
stiled 'High Constable of Connaught.' In 1424, says
the same authority, "died Maolruana Mac Sweeny,
Constable of Tyrconnel, the star of defence and bravery
of the province." In 1524, "Mac Sweeny of Tir-
Boghain (Barony of Bannagh, in Donegal), i.e. Niall
More, son of Owen, died, after extreme unction and
penance, in his own castle at Eathain, on the 14th of
December." These Annalists, having executed their
great history in the Abbey of Donegal, and being in-
timately connected with that county, make frequent

MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 749

mention of the Mac Sweenys there located, and espe-
cially record at 1524 a treacherous invasion on their
territory by the Mac Donnels and their Scots. In
1560, occurs their first notice of this Sept in Minister,
when the sons of the Earl of Desmond having marched
into Carberry (Co. of Cork) on a foray, Mc Carty
'Riavach' attacked the plunderers, being aided by
" Turlogh the son of Maolmurry, son of Donogh, son
of Turlogh Mac Sweeny, of the tribe of Donogh More,
from Tuaith Tiraidhe (Tory Island, off Donegal), with
a brave select party of gallowglasses." In 1587, when
Sir John Perrot's memorable stratagem was effectuated
in the Bay of Lough Swilly, by the enticing of Hugh
Eoe O'Donnell on shipboard, and his capture, " Mac
Sweeny of the Districts, in common with all others of
that country, came to the shore, and they proffered
hostages and sureties in lieu of him ; but it was of
no avail to him, for there was not a hostage in the
Province of Ulster they would take in his stead."
Of the Munster line of this Sept, six passed out of the
country to Spain, after the result of the war in Mun-
ster, in Queen Elizabeth's time. In 1612, King James
directed instructions to Sir Arthur Chichester, then
his Lord Deputy, on behalf of Owen Mac Sweeny, to
accept a surrender of his lands, and grant to him a
patent for their restoration on a new title. " This
Owen," says Smith,* "was particularly recommended
by the Lord Dan vers, President of Munster, and by
Sir Richard Morison, Vice-President, for having per-

* History of Cork, v. 1, p. 186. n.

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formed many faithful services in that Kings reign
and in Queen Elizabeth's." Nevertheless, Owen Mac
Sweeny Oge, his son, was attainted in 1642, and thus
forfeited the property, which was theretofore granted
to his father by a title, which subjected the whole
interest to confiscation.

Besides the three Mac Sweenys in this Eegiment,
the name was in commission on five others. In Sep-
tember, 1691, Sir Bobert King (ancestor of Lord
Lorton) wrote to Colonel Lloyd, then Governor of
Athlone, in relation to the state of affairs about Boyle ;
" There is one Mac Sweeny has a party of about one
hundred men well armed in the woods of Moygara,
four miles from this ; and, though the numbers are
so great to the Sheriff's twenty men (all that he has
here), and our yet unsettled militia, they have not
ventured on us, nor durst, could you favour us with
a company of your men.v* The Attainders of 1691
include three of the name in the County of Cork, five
in Donegal, and one in Mayo.

At the battle of Ypres, says a Gazette of the year
1745, the Irish troops in the French service recovered
the field when the French Guards gave way, but they
suffered much ; and in Bulkeley's Eegiment, which
was one of those gallant bands, Captain Morgan Mac
Sweeny was severely wounded ; as was Captain
Boger Sweeny of the same Eegiment, mortally, at
Lauffield, in two years after.

* D'Alton's 'Annals of Boyle,' v. 1, p. 275.

MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. ' 751

CAPTAINS HENEY AND DAVID TEANT.

This family, of Danish extraction, is on Ortelius's map
located in the Barony of Corkaguinny, County of
Kerry. The name does not appear on the Attainders
of 1641. In the Parliament of 1689, Sir Patrick
Trant was one of the Eepresentatives of the Queen's
County. The Attainders of 1691 include himself, de-
scribed as Baronet, of Coldwell, County of Dublin,
his lady, then Lady Helen Trant, widow, with her
sons Eichard, Laurence, and Charles Trant ; Maurice
Trant of Dublin, Garrett of Port aldington, Queen's
County, and Gerald Trant of Dingle. By the confis-
cations of Sir Patrick, his very extensive estates
vested in the Crown, including lands in the Counties
of Kerry, Kildare, Dublin, King's and Queen's
Counties ; and within these the Manors and Lord-
ships of Portarlington, Lea, and Charleston, all which
were purchased by the Hollow Swords' Blades Com-
pany, from the Trustees of the Forfeitures, for
£30,000. Sir Patrick himself followed King James
to France, where he died soon after ; on the petition
of his widow, however, she and her family were
allowed to retain a small portion of the Kerry estate.
The only claimant upon Sir Patrick's confiscations at
Chichester House in 1700 was John, son of Richard
Trant, a grandson, it would seem, of the Baronet. He
sought a charge affecting the whole estates, but his
petition was dismissed for non-prosecution.

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CAPTAIN ROBERT DORNEY.

An Owen O'Dorney, described as of Clonedullane,
County of Cork, was attainted. Nothing has been
ascertained of this officer or of his family, but from his
associates in this Regiment, he would seem to be of
the same county.

CAPTAIN PATRICK HIDE.

Sir Arthur ' Hyde,' who was made a Knight Baronet
by Queen Elizabeth, having raised a Regiment in
England at the time of the Invasion by the invincible
Armada, was one of the Munster undertakers endowed
with 6,000 acres of the Desmond forfeitures in Cork.
This Captain, it would seem, was his relative.
Patrick's name does not appear on the Attainders of
1691, but only that of Hugo Hide 4 of Ballymac-
Phillip, County of Cork.'

CAPTAIN DENNIS FALVEY.

The O'Falveys were Chiefs of Cork, and in ancient
times recorded as the hereditary Admirals of Desmond.
One of the despairing emigrants, who passed into
Spain after the wars of Elizabeth's time, was John
' O'Fallevay.'

MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY.

753

CAPTAIN PHILIP COGAN.

This name is of record in Ireland from the Invasion,
often and eminently displayed in its history, especially
in connexion with Cork, the whole of which county
Henry the Second, on his invasion of Ireland,
conferred jointly upon Milo de Cogan, and Eobert
Fitz-Stephen his uncle. Milo was the first Consta-
ble of Dublin after its reduction from the natives. In
1221, Eichard de Cogan, who was possessed of lands
in the Honor of Bray, was summoned to attend a
Great Council, as was John de Cogan to do military
service against the Scots in 1244. In 1294, John
Cogan was required to do military service in Gas-
cony, as he was again in the ensuing year. He died
in 1309, and was buried in St. Saviour's Friary, Dub-
lin. In 1334, William Cogan was Lord Treasurer of
Ireland, and in the following year Milo de Cogan had
special summons to attend John D'Arcy, the Jus-
ticiary of Ireland, in his expedition into Scotland. In
1438, Eobert Fitz-Geoffry Cogan granted to Gerald
Fitz-Gerald, Lord of Decies, half the County of Cork,
described as all his lands in Ireland. In 1488,
James Cogan, being Prior of the great monastery of
Holmpatrick, took the oath of allegiance to Sir
Eichard Edgecombe, as required by the then recent
rising for Lambert Simnel. In March, 1601, Eich-
ard Fitz-Philip Cogan was one of those who emigrated
to Spain with Don Juan de Aquila, about which time
John de Courcy, eighteenth Lord of Kinsale, married

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Catherine, daughter of William Cogan, from which
marriage the Baronage has been lineally continued to
Baron John Constantine, the present Lord Kinsale.

A James Cogan was a Lieutenant in another

Munster Eegiment of Infantry, that of Colonel
Nicholas Browne ; he was attainted in 1691 by the
description of Kilmore, County of Cork, as was
Captain Philip as of Carrickbrinna, in that county.
What degree of kindred, if any, these individuals bore
to the Lords of Kinsale, has not been ascertained.

CAPTAIN JOHN MAHONY.

The O'Mahonys were powerful chieftains in Munster,
and had extensive estates along the sea coast of Cork
and Kerry. Opposite Horse Island, off the former
county, was their castle of Eosbrin, boldly erected on
a rock over the sea ; and its proprietor in the time of
Queen Elizabeth, availing himself of the natural ad-
vantage it possessed, led a life of such successful
piracy, that Sir George Carew, when Lord President,
was obliged to demolish it. Smith says there was an
ancient Irish Chronicle, called from this locality the
Psalter of Rosbrin, which contained a genealogical
account of the O'Mahonys.* In the manuscripts of
the Lambeth Library, is a "note of the names of all
the plow-lands belonging to the O'Mahone Fione in
Disagh, a part of West Carbury ;" also " the division of

* Smith's Cork, v. 1, p. 284.

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the territory of Iveagh (the peninsula of Mizen Head),
a part also of Carbury, among the O'Mahonys." This
O'Mahony Fion, says an ancient authority * was
" Sovereign Prince of Kath-lean, and next lawful heir
to the Crown of Cashel, when vacant for want of a
successor ; and, on coming into the presence of the
King of Cashel, he was not bound to make any other
homage than to bow his head." In 950, says Arch-
dall, died Donough O'Mahony, Abbot of Glendaloch
and Clonmacnoise. In 1089, this Sept obtained a
victory over Donough O'Brien. In 1135, Connor
O'Brien, in the alternate assertion of an old feud,
defeated the O'Mahonys in battle, slaying their chief,
Cian O'Mahony, styled " King of Rathlean or East
Iveach." In 1178, Donat O'Brien, with his Dalcas-
sians, routed the O'Donovans and the O'Connels,
driving them from Limerick County to beyond Man-
gerton in Kerry. Here these two exiled families,
being powerfully assisted by the O'Mahonys, made
new settlements for themselves on the ancient proper-
ties of the O'Donoghues, O'Learys, and O'Driscolls, to
which three families the O'Mahonys were always
declared enemies ; after which the O'Donoghues
settled at Killarney, on the borders of Lough Lean.

At Perrot's Parliament of 1585, this Sept was
represented by Owen, son of Donell, son of Donell-na-
Screedagh O'Mahony (of the western district of
Iveragh, County of Kerry), and by Conor, son of
Conor Fion Oge, son of Conor Fion, son of Conor

* O'Gorman's MSS. Roy. Ir. Acad. p. 54.

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O'Mahony. In the following year, on an Inquisition
taken at Shanclon Castle, there were attainted, as im-
plicated in the Desmond rebellion, Daniel, son of
Connor O'Mahony of Bosbrin, and Conor O'Mahony
of Castle Mahony, near Bandon, who were thereupon
adjudged to forfeit all their honors, castles, manors,
&c. In 1605, Sir William Taaffe, Knight, had a
grant in 1 Muskrie,' County of Cork, of the entire ter-
ritory or country of Ichonloe, containing twenty-eight
small carucates of land of every kind, each being 120
acres, the greater part bog and unprofitable, and
theretofore the estate of (the above) Daniel, son of
Connor O'Mahony, attainted. The Attainders of
1643 include ten of this name in the County of Cork.
About that time flourished Connor O'Mahony, long
residing at St. Koch in Lisbon ; he was born in the
Barony of Muskerry, County of Cork, became a
Jesuit, and published some works under a fictitious
name, especially the Disputatio Apologetica, &c. in
1645, a work which was thought so ultra even by the
Supreme Council of Kilkenny, that they ordered it to
the flames.*

Dermot O'Mahony of Bosbrin became a Colonel in
this campaign, and was killed at Aughrim ; he was
attainted in 1691, with two other Mahonys of Cork.
Daniel, the brother of said Colonel Dermot, was
knighted by King James at St. Germains for his
distinguished conduct at Cremona, and afterwards
obtained the title of Count from Louis the Fourteenth

* Ware's Writers, pp. 121-2. Hardiman's Galway, p. 123.

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757

for his good services in France, Spain, and Italy. In
the latter country he was distinguished in 1702. In

1706, when Admiral Leake invested Alicant,
Mahony, who was its Governor, defended it until he
received three wounds, and was obliged to send to
General Georges, who commanded the English land
forces, for a surgeon, a request which was at once
complied with, and the brave Governor still held out
till the last necessity compelled a capitulation.* In

1707, Mahony's Dragoons carried much glory in the
victory of Almanza, and being in the same year
appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish troops
in Sicily, his arrival there secured to the King of
Spain the possession of that island, and extinguished
various smouldering conspiracies in favour of the
Austrians.f He was advanced to be a Lieutenant-
General in the Spanish service, and was ennobled
with the title of Count of Castile. " He was not only
brave," says Bellerue in his Campaign of Vendome,
"but laborious and indefatigable ; his life was a con-
tinued chain of dangerous combats, desperate attacks,
and honourable retreats." His son remained in Spain
and retained the title, while his brother, Demetrio,
became a Captain in the King of Spain's Guards. %
Bacallar y Sanna, in his History of Spain under
Philip the Third, gives very full details of the
achievements of Colonel Count Mahony at Cartha-

* Crooner's Milit. Mem. v. 1, pp. 318-19.
f Idem, v. 2, p. 336.

+ Notiees of Co. Kerry, MS. Roy. Ir. Aead. p. 42.

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gena and other places in Spain. The sons of Colonel
Dermot were no less signalised in Holland.* Of the
Brigaded Eegiment of Limerick, of which Sir John
Fitz-Gerald was Colonel, Jeremy O'Mahony was
Lientenant-Colonel.

Smith, in his History of Cork (v. 1, p. 201), re-
lates the death in 1728 of a remarkable character,
Denis O'Mahony, a priest, who had lived for 28 years
in a lonely island in the wild scenery of G-ougane
Barra. What a scene it was to nourish the despair

of a landless victim ! In 1745, Dennis and Darby

Mahony, Lieutenants in Bulkeley's Eegiment, were
taken prisoners at sea, off Montrose. In 1786, says
a Chronicle of the time, " His Excellency Count
Mahony, Ambassador from Spain to the Court of
Vienna, gave a grand entertainment in honour of
Patrick's Day ; where were present Count Lacy,
President of the Council of War, the Generals
O'Donnell, Maguire, O'Kelly, Browne, Plunket, Mac
Ellicot, four chiefs of the Grand Cross, two Governors,
several Knights military, six Staff Officers, four Privy
Councillors, with the principal Officers of State, who,
to show their respect for the Irish nation, wore crosses
in honor of the day, as did the whole Court. "f

* Notices of Co. Kerry, MS. Roy. Ir. Acad. p. 52.
t Gent. Mag. ad arm. p. 195.

MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 759

CAPTAIN DANIEL O'HERLIHY.

See of this Sept, ante, p. 285, &c. The Attainders

of 1643 describe eleven of the Sept of O'Herlihy in
the County of Cork ; those of 1691 have but one,
John Herrlihy of Tuogage, in that county.

LIEUTENANT JOHN CONDON.

The Condons were deemed so powerful a Sept of old,
that their territory was adopted as the name of a
Barony in the County of Cork. On the first entrance
of the Lord President of Munster, in 1600, into that
county, Mac Hugh Condon was one of the native
chiefs who first made submission to him.* In 1606,
John King, of Dublin, had a grant from the Crown of
certain estates in the County of Waterford, thereto-
fore the property of Patrick Condon ; while, in seven
years after, David Condon of Bally dorrawne, County
of Cork, " in performance of an indented order taken
and conceived between him and Arthur Hide of Car-
riginedy, concerning the title, right, and possession of
all the estates sometime belonging to Patrick Condon,
said David's father," granted, assigned and confirmed
to Hide various manors and lands in said county, to
hold of the King as fully as same had been granted to

David by letters patent. The Attainders of 1642

present the names of ten Condons in the County of

* Pacata Hibernia, p. 61.

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Cork, while on those of 1691 are the above Lieu-
tenant John, styled of Carricknavoura and Dysart,
and five others in the same county. At the Court
of Claims in 1700, Julian Condon preferred her peti-
tion for her jointure in his Cork estate ; but her
prayer was dismissed.

LIEUTENANT RICHARD BULMAN.

Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family at
the period.

ENSIGN TEIGUE GLORNEY.

The O'Glorneys or O'Glorans were a Sept of the
County of Kilkenny.

ENSIGN THOMAS 4 HALY.'

The 4 O'Halys' are located by O'Brien in a large tract
of the Barony of Muskerry, County of Cork,
called from them Pobble-O'Haly. The Four Masters
record the death in 1309 of Dermod O'Healey, 4 the
most eminent of the landed gentry of his time.' In
1328, died Duvesa, daughter of O'Hely, and wife of
Donal, son of Teigue O'Conor. In 1389, the Septs of
O'Conor and O'Ruarc invaded Muinter-Hely, whose

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' cavalry' they put to flight, slaying Maims O'Hely
and others at that place ; and in 1426 is recorded
the death of O'Hely More, that is Conor Caoch O'Hely.

The officer at present under consideration, however,
is, on the authority of ancient family tradition, alleged
to have been of the Connaught Sept of O'Hanly of
Slieve-Ban, whose Chief in the sixteenth century had
three sons, Robert, Hugh, and James. The last,
having killed a person of rank in a duel, retired from
that province and settled in Limerick, where he took
the name of Haly, as concealing, though not utterly
renouncing his patronymic, and there he married.
His grandson, William Haly, acquired large posses-
sions in that county, of which he was High Sheriff in
1636. He had two sons : Nicholas, who, for his ad-
herence to King Charles, is said to have been honour-
ed with a fiat for the dignity of Baron ; in evidence of
which three letters are referred to, one of the King,
dated at Newcastle, February 20th, 1646, and two
others of the Earl of Glamorgan and Worcester, dated
13th September, 1646, and 20th April, 1647, (in the
custody of William Haly); but, as it is alleged, the
patents could not be made out, the King being at the
time a prisoner with the Scottish army, and not having
the Great Seal with him. This Nicholas, styled of
Towrine, and his younger brother John of Limerick,
were of the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646.
John died without issue. Nicholas signed the Treaty
of Limerick in 1651 with Ireton, as one of the Com-
missioners on the part of the garrison, and for the

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performance of which he was one of the hostages
retained. He was subsequently stripped of all his
property by Cromwell ; but his eldest son, Robert, who
married Lady Eoche, the widow of John, the tenth
Viscount Fermoy, was restored to his estates by James
the Second. From very full notices of this family in
the handwriting of the late Mr. James Roche (which
are necessarily compressed here), it appears suggested
that not only the above officer, Ensign Thomas, but
also Edward Haly, the Cornet in Colonel Parker's
Horse, were of this line of ancestry ; those Christian
names being then introduced by marriages with the
Yerdon and Roche families. The only representative
of this old and respectable family now remaining in
Ireland is the Very Reverend Robert Haly, S. J., resi-
dent in Dublin ; but Colonel O'Grady Haly command-
ing the 47th Regiment, (to whom the Crimean
medal was lately presented by Her Majesty), and
Mr. Haly, of the English bar, are also representatives
thereof, with many others living in England, France,
India, and the British Colonies. There were eleven
Healys attainted in 1691, but neither Thomas nor
Edward ' Haly' appears upon the Roll. In 1710, a
Captain ' Hely,' of Lord Kilmallock's Brigade, was
killed in battle in Spain. A Lieutenant Richard
' Haly,' of Rothe's Regiment, was engaged at Fontenoy,
wounded at Lauffield in 1747, subsequently promoted
to the rank of Major in the Irish Brigade of France,
and died at an advanced age about the year 1785, at
Cambray.

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ENSIGN GIBBON FITZ-GIBBON.

Four of this name were attainted in 1642, all in the
County of Meath.

ENSIGN PHILIP 'WOLFE.'

The name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Second. On Ortelius's map it is located
in the Barony of Clanwilliam, County of Tipper ary.
They were also territorial proprietors in the County
of Kildare, where Thomas died in 1582, seised of
Beart and other estates. Edmund Wolfe was at the
same time seised of Kilcolman, Oldcourt, Ardscull, &c.
all which premises were forfeited on the attainder of
Nicholas Wolfe in 1641, when three others of the
name were outlawed, but none in 1691. At the
Court of Claims, however, a John Wolfe petitioned for
an interest in County of Kildare lands forfeited by
Sarsfield ; and the name existed in that county to
modern times. The Eev. Charles Wolfe, who died
but recently, the well known author of the lines on
the death of Sir John Moore, was born in 1791, the
youngest son of Theobald Wolfe of Blackhall, County
of Kildare. In the County of Clare it attained
eminence of another character, in that ornament of
the Irish Exchequer, the late Chief Baron Stephen
' Woulfe.' The hero, Major-General James ' Woulfe,'
who fell in victory at Quebec hi 1 7-39, was lineally

7 64 king james's hush army list.

descended from a Captain George Woulfe of the City
of Limerick, who was one of the victims proscribed
for his devotion to the Royal cause by Ireton in 1651,
when he stormed that city. Captain George, how-
ever, escaped to the North of England, where he
settled. His grandson, General Edward Woulfe, was
appointed Colonel of the 8th Regiment of Foot in
1745, and he was the father of the hero of Quebec,*
who, at the early age of twenty-one, fought at the
often mentioned battle of Lauffield.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

LORD BOPHIN'S, ALIAS COLONEL JOHN BOURKE.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

Tho Colonel.

Francis Bourke.

John Madden.

William Connock,

Lieutenant- Colonel.

John Bodkin,

Major.

Patrick Kirwan.

Piers Lynch.

Andrew Kirwan.

Richard Blake.

John Blake.

Stephen Lynch.

Peter Blake,

Lawrence Deane.

Peter Blake.

William Bourke.
Francis Baker, 2nd.

| Miles Bourke.

Walter Bourke.

Robert Lynch.

Stephen Lynch.

Nicholas Blake.

Joseph Lynch.

Richard Blake.

William Lynch.

Arthur Lynch.

Dominick Lovelock.

Thomas Brown.

Nicholas Lynch.

Thomas Lynch.

Matthew Bodkin.

Matthew Lynch.

Lawrence Warren.

Hugh Kelly.

John White,

Grenad.

* Ferrar's Limerick, p. 350.

LORD BOPIIIN'S INFANTRY.

765

COLONEL LOED BOPHIN.

This Peer, the second son of William, Earl of Clan-
ricarde, was one of King James's creation, on the 2nd
of April, 1689. He was, in this campaign, taken
prisoner at Aughrim at the head of his Regiment,
brought off to the Castle of Dublin, and thence sent
to England. He was attainted on Inquisition, and
although a bill was brought into Parliament in 1698
for restoring him to his estate and blood, it was thrown
out on the second reading; his children, however,
having preferred their petitions at the Court of Claims,
were allowed their respective remainders, and, in the
first year of the reign of Queen Anne, an Act was pass-
ed whereby Lord Bophin was acquitted of all treasons
and attainders, and he and his children restored to

their blood and estate. The Family of * Bourke'

is fully noticed ante, at the Earl of Clanricarde.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM
CONNOCK.

This officer, of whose antecedents nothing has been
ascertained, passed over to France ; where, in the
Brigades, he obtained the rank of full Colonel, by
reason of his gallant actions. He particularly dis-
tinguished himself at Cremona, and at the siege of

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Verrua in Piedmont, in 1704, where, however, he was
killed by the bursting of a shell.*

MAJOR JOHN BODKIN.

This name appears on the records of Galway from the
time of the Tudors. In 1533, Dr. Christopher
4 Bodekine' was consecrated Bishop of Kilmacduagh at
Marseilles, and was in three years after, by the favour
of Henry the Eighth, translated to the Archbishopric
of Tuam, with which he held to his death the See of
Kilmacduagh. f Dominick Bodkin of Galway was one
of the Confederate Catholics who assembled at Kil-
kenny in 1646. At the siege of Galway in 1652,
six townsmen of this name refused to sign the articles
for its surrender, while twelve other Bodkins absent-
ed themselves to avoid so doing. J Besides Major
John and Matthew Bodkin, an Ensign in this Regi-
ment, John Bodkin was an Ensign in Colonel Domi-
nick Browne's Infantry, as was Augustus Bodkin in
the Earl of Clanricarde's. In July, 1691, this
Major, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, was of the hostages
delivered to the besiegers of the town, to be bound
for the due observance of the terms imposed upon
the garrison and townspeople until surrender.§ He
was a merchant of Galway, was included in the Attain-

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 294. f Ware's Bishops, p. 615.
J Hardiman's Galway, Ap. p. 33. § Idem, p. 162.

LORD BOPIIIN'S INFANTRY.

767

ders of that year, but was afterwards adjudged within
the benefit of the articles of 1698 and 1699.

CAPTAIN PATRICK KIRWAN.

The O'Kerwans were an ancient Irish Sept of Con-
naught, but the name has been, as it may be consi-
dered, anglicised into Kirwan, by which orthogra-
phy it was known in the County of Galway from the
thirteenth century,* whence they extended to Mayo,
and at a later period to Waterford and Tipperary.
From 1501 to the time of the Revolution the
Shrievalty of Galway, then a very important town, was
frequently filled by a Kirwan, as was not less the
Mayoralty. In 1582, Stephen Kirwan was Bishop of
Clonfert, as was Francis Kirwan of Killala in 1646.
These, however, will not be found in Ware's Bishops.
At the Supreme Council of 1646, Patrick Kirwan of
Galway was one of the Members ; yet would it seem
he was the same individual, to whom General Ireton
in 1652 returned special thanks, for the protection he
had afforded to the Protestants during the immedi-
ately preceding years of civil war ; Ireton also gave
him, under hand and seal, permission to carry arms.
He was of the Cregg line of Kir wans, and grandfather
of the above Captain Patrick ; while the Major of this
Regiment, John Bodkin, was Captain Patrick's mater-
nal uncle. Patrick married in 1703, Mary, daughter

* Hardiraan's Galway, p. 16.

768

RING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

of Richard Martin of Dangan, and succeeded to the
Cregg estates on the death of his own father, Martin
Kirwan, in 1705. Sir John Kirwan was Mayor of
Galway in 1686, and its Eepresentative in the Parlia-
ment of 1689. He is said to have been the first who
introduced in that town the modern style of glass
windows, in lieu of the small leaden lattices thereto-
fore used. This family was distinguished in the Bri-
gades, in the person of Richard Kirwan, the second son
of the above Captain Patrick. He was sent out at an
early age to study in France ; but, preferring a mili-
tary life, he obtained a commission in Dillon's Bri-
gade, fought at Fontenoy in 1745, and was a great
favourite with Lord Clare and Marshal Saxe. He
died at Woodfield in 1779. His nephew was Richard
Kirwan, pre-eminently styled the Chemist, accounted
one of the greatest philosophers of his day, and a
member of most of the literary institutions of
Europe.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM BOURKE.

The illustrations of the ' Bourke' family occur ante,
at the Earl of Clanricarde. This officer, afterwards
promoted to a Majority, was taken prisoner at
Aughrim.*

* Story's Impart. Hist. p. 2, p. 137.

LORD BOPHIN'S INFANTRY.

769

CAPTAINS ROBERT, JOSEPH, NICHOLAS,

AND MATTHEW LYNCH ;
LIEUTENANTS PIERS AND HENRY LYNCH,

AND

ENSIGNS STEPHEN AND WILLIAM LYNCH.

This family came over to Ireland in the first arma-
ment of the English Invasion, and soon after settled
at the Knock in the County of Meath, hence called
Knock-Lynch. They were there frequently styled
4 Leyns,' by that spelling received Royal mandates to
the Hostings, and are so denominated in the current
records and state papers. A younger son of this
house, migrating westward, established the name in
Galway,* where his line acquired much property, and,
until the middle of the seventeenth century, were one
of its most influential families. From them were
elected its first and last Provost, and its first and last
Sovereign ; six of its Recorders were also Lynches.
During this connexion with the place, they effected
many public works within this ancient town, much
strengthened its fortifications, and founded various
religious houses. In 1484, Dominick Lynch pro-
cured the Charter from Richard the Third, under
which he caused his brother Pierce to be elected
first Mayor, and was himself the second. His son
Stephen at the same time sued out the Bull of Pope
Innocent the Eighth, establishing in Galway the sin-
gular jurisdiction of Warden ; from this period to the

* Hardiman's Galway, p. 50.

DDI)

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time of the Eestoration, in the succession of its Mayors,
no less than eighty-four were Lynches, and the family
is one of the four tribes who have an acknowledged
privilege of burial in the Cathedral of that town. In
the sixteenth century the name was established in
Mayo, In 1584, John Lynch, a native of Galway,
educated at Oxford, was advanced by Queen Elizabeth
to the Bishopric of Elphin. In Perrot's Parliament
of the following year, Jonoke Lynch and Peter
Lynch represented Galway. In 1602, Richard
Lynch was Bishop of Kilmacduagh. In the Parlia-
ment of 1639, Sir Robert Lynch was one of the Repre-
sentatives of Galway. He was proprietor of the Isles
of Arran, which, on his subsequent attainder, were
included in the grant to Erasmus Smith, one of the
most considerable of the London adventurers in Ire-
land, whose title to these islands was afterwards pur-
chased by Richard, Earl of Arran.*

In 1642 were attainted, with said Sir Robert
Lynch, Oliver Lynch of Dublin, Myles Lynch of
Cloncurry, and Laurence Lynch of Creganstown, in
the County of Meath. The head of the family at the
Knock is not noted on the Roll, as their Castle
had been in this year taken by the Earl of Ormond,
when the besieged, not accepting quarter, were put
to the sword.f The elder of this house, Robert
Lynch or Leyns, was fain to accept a certificate from
the usurping powers, transplanting him and his

* Hardiman's Galway, p. 320.
f Temple's Irish Rebellion, p. 80.

LORD BOPHIN'S INFANTRY.

771

family into the County of Roscommon, where a small
allotment at the foot of Slieve-Ban was all conceded to
him in tail male, in lieu of his extensive Meath estates.
Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646,
were Martin, Nicholas, and Roebuck Lynch of Gal-
way. In 1650, Walter Lynch succeeded to the See
of Clonfert, at which time flourished John Lynch, an
able antiquary and scholar, born in the town of Gal-
way ; after its surrender in 1652, he betook himself
to France, where, under the assumed name of Gratia-
nus Lucius, he published his ' Cambrensis Eversus] and
other works. In regard to the aforesaid transplanted
Robert Lynch or Leyns, (whose last male descendant,
it may be mentioned, was the author's maternal
uncle), his will bears date in 1667, and commences
with a 4 sweet reminiscence' of his family, directing
his interment " in the sepulchre of my dear mother,
children, and grand-children, in the church of
Clonard, without any great cost or solemnity ; being
banished into Connaught, and deprived of my estate,
and stript of all my moveable goods and substance."

Then, after recounting his debts and providing

for their due and early payment, he adds, " I leave
and bequeath my little nag to my little grand-child
Christopher Leyns, and my apparel to be distributed
to such poor as are in want of clothes to cover their

nakedness." " And in case the Ir. be restored, my

will is that the feoffment I made of Croboy, in the
year of our Lord 1631, shall stand and be in force
according to the intent thereof." The estate of

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772

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Croboy here alluded to included Summer Hill, and
was, in two years after the date of this will, granted
by patent of Charles the Second to Charles Barker,
from whom it passed by purchase to the ancestor of
Lord Langford ; while little more than twenty years
have elapsed since the Crown asserted its title to the
Eoscommon allotment, as on failure of the issue male
of Robert,

In the Charter to Galway in 1687, twenty-three
Lynches were placed upon the Burgess Roll. In the
same year Sir Henry Lynch was appointed a Baron of
the Irish Exchequer, on Sir Stephen Rice being ad-
vanced to be chief. Besides the nine officers of the name
in this Regiment, six others were commissioned on this
list. In the Parliament of 1689, Geoffry Lynch was
one of the Representatives of Gal way, while the
hostages for its surrender in 1691 were Lieuten-
ant-Colonels Lynch, Burke, and Kelly. The Attain-
ders of 1691 include fifteen Lynches.

In the Augustinian Convent at Bruges are monu-
ments to ' Steven' Lynch, who died 1691 ; Agnes
Lynch, died 1728 ; to Dominick Anthony Lynch,
'Eschevon' of Bruges in 1707, 1711, 1713, and 1727 ;
to Dominick Lynch, who in 1782 became a member
of the society of St. George there. James Lynch,
(son of Henry Lynch), whose wife was Anastasia,
daughter of Jasper Joyce, has a sepulchral monument
on the outside of the south wall of the church of Notre
Dame in said city, commemorating his death on the
21st of July, 1793, aged 77. At the battle of Lauffield

LORD BOPHIN'S INFANTRY.

773

in 1747, 1 Colonel Lynch, a la Suite' in Lally's Brigade
Regiment, was wounded ; and in Hardiman's Galway
(p. 18), mention is made of a Count Lynch, Mayor of
Bourdeaux, who so eminently distinguished himself
in the cause of the Royal family of France in opposi-
tion to Buonaparte.

LIEUTENANT LAURENCE DEANE.

This name Den, Dene, Dean, etc. is of record in
Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, more
especially located in the Counties of Cork and Carlow.
In 1609, Richard Dean, a native of Yorkshire, suc-
ceeded to the See of Ossory. The only attainder in
1642 of the name is that of Patrick Deane of Lusk ;
that in 1691 is of Dominick Deane of Cong, County
of Mayo. In 1714, Joseph Deane was appointed
Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. The kindred,
however, of the above officer is unknown.

LIEUTENANT DOMINICK LOVELOCK.

He was attainted in 1691, as Dominick Lovelock of
Milltown, County of Galway ; no more is known of
him.

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ENSIGN JOHN MADDEN.

He was indited in 1691 as of Longford, County of
Galway, and was ancestor of the present Dr. R. R.
Madden, so well known and respected in various
walks of literature.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

colonel oliver 0 gara s, late colonel iriel
farrell's.

Captains.
The Colonel.

Lieuten an t- Colon el .
Thady O'Connor,

Major.

John Conry.

Michael Shanly.
Green Mulloy.

William Mulloy.

William Shanley.

Latighlin Naughton.

Daniel ' Kelley.'
John ' Kelley.'

Charles Phillips.

Bryan M'Gowran.

Owen Gallagher.
Christopher Bellew.
Henry M'Dermott Roe.
Bryan Duff M'Dermott.

Lieutenants.
Michael Shanley.

Bryan Conry.

^ Nicholas White.

Theohald Mulloy.
Thady Shanley.
Edmund Naughton.

^ Edmund Doyle.

Connor M'Dermott.

Daniel M'Gowran.

Ffarrell Gallagher.
Nicholas Bermingham.
Roger M'Dermott.

Far;

Ensigns.
Farrell.

Thady Mahon.

Charles Dillon.

John Connor.
Paul Duigenan.
Thomas Naughton.

Daniel ' Kelley.'

Gilduffe Phillips.

( Turlogh Reynolds.
I Morgan M'Donough.

Owen Gallagher.

William O'Gara.

Arthur M'Manus.

Thomas Walgrave.

COLONEL OLIVER OSAKA'S INFANTRY.

775

COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA.

The O'Garas were the ancient territorial Lords of
Moy-O'Gara and Coolavin, in the County of Sligo.
So early as in the year 1056, the Four Masters record
the death of Roderic O'Gara ; and their valuable and
extensive Chronicle, originating in the patronage of
Ferral O'Gara in the commencement of the seven-
teenth century, is particularly full in details of this
House. Their dedication proclaims him "a descen-
dant of the race of Heber, son of Milesius, which gave
Ireland thirty monarchs, while sixty-one of that race
died in the odour of sanctity." The antiquary Michael
O'Clery, who had at the time peculiar resources for
verifying native genealogies, many of which perished
in the immediately ensuing wars, confidently traces
the lineage of this Ferral O'Gara up ninety- three
generations ; he was himself the Representative of
the County of Sligo in the Parliament of 1634. The
confiscations and ravages of Cromwell, however, left
but little of their rank or territory remaining at this
period, when the above Colonel Oliver was the head
of the Sept. He also was one of the Representatives
for the County of Sligo in the Parliament of 1689,
and was connected by marriage with the Lady Mary
Fleming, daughter of Lord Slane and widow of Richard
Fleming of Stahalmock, by whom he left no issue.
Tins regiment, raised by himself, was one of four
which King James, in falling back upon Ardee, de-
spatched under the command of Brigadier Sarsfield,

776 KING JAiUES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

in September, 1689, to retard the advance of the Wil-
liamite forces into Connaught.* Story states that
Colonel O'Gara was killed at the siege of Athlone in
June, 1691 ; but if he intended to refer this statement
to Colonel Oliver, it was erroneous, as he is known to
have witnessed the Articles of Limerick, and accom-
panied the Irish emigrants to the Continent, where
he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel to King James's
fine Regiment of Irish Foot-Guards, amounting, before
its departure from Limerick to France, to 1400 men.f
This reduction of his rank to a post subordinate to
Colonel William Dorrington, was soon redressed by
his appointment to the Colonelcy of the Queen's Dra-
goons. He was attainted in 1691, with 'Maria' his
wife, John O'Gara of Clunoghill, and Roger and
Morgan ' Gara ' of Ballyhowla, County of Sligo. It
may be added that the Reverend Nicholas O'Gara,
faithful to the memory of his country in a foreign
land, was a valuable collector of Irish poems in the
Netherlands,! In 1734, Bryan O'Gara was Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, as was Michael O'Gara
in 1742.

MAJOR THADY O'CONNOR.
The Annals of this family of native Royalty cannot

* Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 382.

f O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, p. 164, &c.

\ Trans. Ibern. Celt. p. 97 and 174.

COLONEL OLIVER o'GARA's INFANTRY.

777

be alluded to here beyond the scope denned in the
prospectus of this volume. They were particularly
located in Connaught, with branches in Kerry (where
they gave name to Iraghti-connor), and in Offaley of
Leinster, hence there styled O'Connor-Failey. In 1302,
Edward the First invited Hugh O'Conor to aid him
in the Scottish war, and Edward the Second sought
similar services in 1314 from 'O'Conogher, Dux
Hibernicorum de Connagh] and from ' Dermod
O'Tonoghur d'Offaley.' A Report to Government of
the chief leaders of Connaught in the time of Henry
the Eighth, and their available strength, mentions
O'Conor as Lord of a portion of that province, with
a musterable force of 120 Horse, 160 Galloglasses,
and 300 Kerns. A manuscript Book of Obits in
Trinity College, Dublin, furnishes several links in the
generations of the O'Connors-Kerry in the sixteeenth
and seventeenth centuries. Cromwell's Act of 1652,
' for settling Ireland,' excepted from pardon for life
and estate Charles O'Conor Don of Ballintobber,
County of Roscommon, Teigue O'Connor Roe of said
county, Teigue O'Connor Sligo of Sligo, and Charles
and Hugh O'Connor, his brothers. The acknowledg-
ment in the Act of Settlement, of Royal gratitude for
services beyond the seas, includes Major f wen
O'Conor of Balinagare, County of Roscommon Cap-
tain Hugh O'Conor Don of Ballintobber, Ensign
Daniel O'Connor of the County of Mayo, with Lieu-
tenant Roger and Ensign Hugh O'Connor. This
Sept mustered very strong upon the Army List3

778

KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

holding several commissions in fifteen other Regi-
ments. According to a contemporaneous Diary,* a
short time before the surrender of Limerick, " Major
O'Connor, who was Governor of Banagher, surrender-
ed it on condition of being allowed to march out of it
with his men. He hath since been in Limerick, and
upon view of the condition of that place, and consider-
ation of the wants of the Irish and their impending
ruin, came over to us this day (21st August, 1691) ;
also nine more of the Irish army well mounted."
Story says that of sixty men, who came over with
him, " forty laid down their arms, and to each the
general gave five shillings for encouragement, "f It
does, however, appear from the same narrator, that
a Colonel O'Connor, subsequently to the last date, at
the head of 400 Irish, burned Edenderry and after-
wards Ballybrittas.J On the Roll of Attainders in
1691, stand Phelini O'Conor of Balinagare, Roger
O'Connor of Doagh, Thady O'Connor of Cloonkelly,
and Charles Connor of Carrovan, County of Ros-
common ; with eleven others in Kerry, Kildare,
Queen's County, Sligo, Longford, Galway, Cork, and
Dublin. At the Court of Chichester House, Denis
O'Conor, with Peter Conry and Anne Conry, alias
O'Conor, his wife, and Bridget O'Conor, claimed and
were allowed three parts out of four of the real estates
of Major Owen O'Conor in Ballinagar, &c, under his

* Harleian Coll. v. 7, p. 481.

t Story's Impartial History, part 1, p. 149.

t Idem, pt. 2, p. 56.

COLONEL OLIVER CLARA'S INFANTRY.

779

will of 8th May, 1685, but which had been forfeited

by Phelim O'Conor. —Captain Thomas O'Connor

in Dillon's Brigade was wounded at the battle of
Lauffield.

CAPTAIN JOHN CONEY.

The O'Maol Conrys were a branch of the Southern
Hy-Nialls, who for centuries ruled as kings of Meath
and Monarchs of Ireland. They were originally chiefs
in Teffia, in the present County of Westmeath ; but in
the tenth century, crossing the Shannon, located
themselves upon its western bank, and from that time
were known as Connacians. This Sept, which be-
longed to the Great Bardic Order, acquired under the
patronage of the O'Conors, Kings of Connaught, con-
siderable possessions in that Province, and became its
Chief Bards, as well as Seanachies to its Kings ; as
shown in the Annals of the Four Masters, in the
compilation of which record, two of the Sept, Maurice
and Fearfeasa O'Mulconroy, contributed the ancient
chronicles of their tribe, and were active assistants.
In virtue of the hereditary and honourable office of
Seanachie, it was the duty of the Chief of this cele-
brated Bardic clan to officiate upon the Sacred Hill,
at the Inauguration of a new King of Connaught ; to
present to him the white wand or sceptre, the emblem
of Sovereignty ; to administer to him the usual oath or
admonition to preserve the customs of the country ;

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and, finally, to record the proceedings. In the
learned Dr. O'Conors Latin translation of the MSS.
chronicles of Ireland appears the following account of
the ceremonies, &c. performed by Torna O'Mulconry
in the year 1312, at the Inauguration of Phelim
O'Conor, King of Connaught. The account is written
by Torna himself, and is to be found in the aforesaid
Irish Chronicles :—

"O'Maolconarii erant jure hereditario Begum
Connacice Bardi a Secido XL, sine quorum genealo-
gid metricd, in conventione Begni, publice recitandd,
Begem inaugurare nefas est. Hinc plurimi istius
nominis archi-poetce Connacice in annalibus memoran-
tur. Hoc est OMaolconarii jus. — Virgam regiam
dare in ejus manum Begi inaugurato: et nefas est
alicui Ducum Connacice esse in ejus prcesentid supra
agger em sacrum, nisi CMaolconario, prope Begem, et
O Connaclitano, custodienti aggeris sacri: — Ejus (i. e.
Begis) equus militaris et vestimenta traduntur Vi-
cario Daehonni: — cujus est officium ire ad montem
(i. e. arcem Concobari) supra equum istum: — et uncia
auri [datur~\ Connachtano ; et ejus officium inequali-
tates aggeris sacri Iwvigare, quando inauguratio
Begia Jit:" etc. etc.

The office of chief bard to an Irish king was deem-
ed a post of great honour and dignity, and many of
the duties of it were of a solemn description : some of
the functions of the Royal Seanachies at the ceremony
of inauguration were in late times performed by the
clergy themselves, as we find stated in the account

COLONEL OLIVER OSAKA'S INFANTRY. 781

given of the inauguration of Hugh O'Neil, Titular
King of Ulster and Earl of Tyrone, at the close of
Elizabeth's reign. The inauguration of an Irish king,
even as late as the reign of James the First, was per-
formed in the open air, upon one of the Sacred Hills,
or places appointed for that purpose, and in the pre-
sence of the Septs of the province, who were led
thither by their respective chiefs to witness the cere-
mony.- The poet Spencer, in his History of Ire-
land, written in 1597, thus describes one of these
solemn rites, of which he himself had been an eye-
witness. " Whenever an Irish king or chief is to be
inaugurated on one of their hills, it is usual to place
him on a particular stone, whereon is imprinted the
form of their first chieftain's foot, and there proffer to
him an oath to preserve the customs of the country.
There was then a wand delivered to him by the proper
officer, with which in his hand, descending from the
stone, he turned himself round, thrice forward, thrice
backward." In an account of the ceremonies per-
formed at the initiation of the O'Donels, Princes of
Tyrconnel, it is said that in presenting the new king
with the wand, which was perfectly white and straight,
the chief who officiated used this form of words : —
" Receive, 0 King, this auspicious badge of your
authority, and remember to imitate in your conduct
the whiteness and straightness of this wand." This
hereditary and remarkable office became obsolete in
the O'Mulconry clan after the split of the great
O'Conor family into the three kindred but rival houses

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of O'Conor Don, O'Conor Roe, and O'Conor Sligo, and
the divisions of the lands and Septs of Connanght
between them. The O'Mulconrys became tributaries
to the O'Conors Roe. All the branches of the great
honse of O'Conor had submitted to Elizabeth, and re-
maining faithful to her during the fierce wars of that
period in Ireland, provoked the hostility of their
countrymen, the O'Neils and O'Donels of the north ;
who, in revenge for this apostasy from the common
cause, made a descent into Connaught in 1597, and
laid waste the territories of the O'Conors with fire
and sword. In this foray, the O'Conor Don, chief of
all the O'Conors, was taken prisoner ; the country of
O'Conor Eoe, south of Elphin, was ravaged from Ath-
glissento Sliabh-bann ; and the Mac Dermot ofMoy-
lurg was obliged to declare himself O'Donel's vassal,
and to attend him when required, with eighty foot
and twenty horse, &c, &c. In this inroad of the
northern chieftains, the numerically small Sept of the
O'Mulconrys was almost annihilated, and the decay ot
the family dates from that period. Their subsequent
history assimilates with that of most other Irish
families ; the cruel civil wars that desolated unhappy
Ireland throughout the seventeenth century, producing
attainders, forfeiture and exile, almost extinguished
them. One or two families of the Sept, neverthe-
less, continued, through all vicissitudes of fortune, to
retain some footing in their native province.

The above Captain John Conry, his brother
Lieutenant Bryan, and a third brother Patrick, were

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of this house, and all engaged in the service of King-
James the Second ; while another John Conry of the
elder branch of the same family claims more especial
notice, as well for the sacrifices he and his descend-
ants had made to this canse, as for the position and
rank they have respectively held to the present day.
The grandfather of this latter John was Moylin
O'Maolconry, who died in 1637, the last individual
recognised in native heraldry as chief of his nation.
His son Thorna entered and caused to be certified in
the Heralds' College, his father's lineage, which declares
him to have been the forty-third in descent from
the first recorded ancestor (" Conn" of the hundred
Battles) in that pedigree. Thorna, dying in 1647,
was succeeded by his son John, who, having taken
part and suffered in his estate, in the Cromwellian
wars, fled to France, and there married the daughter
of another emigrant, of the Fitz-Geralds, who had
quitted Ireland in Elizabeth's reign, on the destruc-
tion of the great Ceraldine chief, the Earl of Desmond.
John Conry served throughout the wars of France
under the celebrated Marshal Turenne, and was killed
at the passage of the Rhine in 1672, leaving two sons,
who both returned to Ireland. The eldest, Charles,
who is stated to have also fought under Turenne at
the early age of fifteen, endeavoured after the Resto-
ration of Charles the Second to obtain compensa-
tion for his family's losses in the Royal cause, but,
in common with the large majority of the ruined
Irish gentry, he failed in this object. However, in

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1678, he obtained by patent a small and tardy appro-
priation of lands in his native province, and again
returned to France. On the abdication of King
James the Second, Charles Conry, still clinging to the
old dynasty, sold the estate he had inherited through
his mother in France, and, adding to the pro-
ceeds whatever he could raise in Ireland, he devoted
his fortune and his life to the cause of that Monarch,
whom, in common with his Roman Catholic country-
men, he alone recognised as his lawful Sovereign.
His name, however, does not appear in the present
Army List, but unimpeachable records establish the
fact of his bearing arms for King James as a volun-
teer, of which description of force there was a consi-
derable body. Having joined King James's army with
whomsoever of his Sept he could collect, he fought
and fell at the Boyne. Leaving no issue, he was suc-
ceeded by his brother Fearfeasa, who was the first
member of this family that professed Protestantism.
His son, another John, was a celebrated antiquarian,
and in his devotion to literature pursued the heredi-
tary vocation of his ancestors ; he collected a very
valuable library, in addition to ancient and curious
MSS. of the O'Maolconaire tribe. Among these, it is
said, was the first volume of the original of the Four
Masters, in the compilation of which (as before men-
tioned), two members of the Sept had been engaged in
the year 1632. This volume, and many of the Conroy
MSS. passed into the late ill-fated Library at Stowe.
John Conroy himself compiled a remarkably inte-

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resting history of his family from the earliest period to
the year 1750 ; it is divided into chapters, and
throws light on many passages of the general and
family history of Ireland. His grandson and name-
sake was the late Sir John Conroy, Knight of four
foreign orders, and created a Baronet for long and
faithful services to her Majesty and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The
present Baronet, a godson of that Royal Duke, bears
his respected name, Sir Edward Conroy of Llanbryn-
mair, County of Montgomery. A distinguished indi-
vidual of this name was Florence O'Mulconry, titular
Archbishop of Tuam, and founder of the Irish Fran-
ciscan monastery at Louvain, under the auspices of
Philip the Third of Spain. This Prelate was the au-
thor of several works, and, dying at Madrid in 1629,
his bones were subsequently removed to the Convent
he had founded at Louvain. He was intimately con-
cerned in the political movements of the times, and
was instrumental in aiding the escape of the great
Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel out of Ireland. The
fact is announced in a letter, dated " Dublin, 1 2th of
Sept. 1607," from Sir John Davis, the celebrated
Attorney-General of Ireland, to the English Lor^d
Chancellor Ellesmere, in which he says that this pre-
late came over in person in a ship equipped and sent
by Philip of Spain for the rescue of these Earls.

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CAPTAINS MICHAEL AND WILLIAM
SHANLEY.

The Shanleys, sometimes styled 0' Shanleys, but more
usually Mac Shanleys, are noticed as a Sept of Leitrim
from the thirteenth century. In 1254, Sitric
Mac Shanley was taken prisoner by Phelim, son of
Cathal Crov-dearg 0' Conor, on suspicion of conspi-
ring to betray him. In 1378, the Mac Shanley was
slain in an engagement between the O'Rourkes and
Mac Eannels. At 1404, the Four Masters com-
memorate the death of Donogh, son of Morrough
Mac Shanley, " a wealthy landed proprietor of Cor-
caghlan [in the County of Roscommon], and the in-
timate friend of Roderick O'Conor, King of Con-
naught." In 1473, " a great commotion broke out
in Muinter-Eolis [in the County of Leitrim], and
much destruction was committed ; Mac Rannal made
an attack on the town of Mac Shanly, which he
burned, and slew Donogh, son of Donogh Mac Shan-
ley, with several others."* On the plantation of the
Counties of Leitrim and Longford, Teigue Mac Shan-
ly of Mornin and Edward Oge Mac Shanly in policy
sued out patents of pardon and protection, as did
Bryan Mac Shanly of Ancurvy in the King's County.
Besides the above two Captains, Thady and another
Michael Shanley were Lieutenants in this Regiment,
while Bryan Shanley was an Ensign in Colonel
Reward Oxburgh's Infantry. In King James's

* Annals of the Four Masters, ad ann.

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Charter to Jamestown, County of Leitrim, the above
Captain William was appointed the Sovereign, and
Michael constituted one of its free Burgesses. Wil-
liam was one of its Representatives in the Parliament
of 1689. The Attainders of 1691 denounce both
William and Michael Shanley, as of the County of
Leitrim ; with Thady and Brian Shanley of Fenagh
in the same county ; James ' Shanly' of Macetown,
County of Westmeath ; and John of Swords, County of
Dublin. A Michael Shanly came over to King Wil-
liam, and was placed on the pension list of the mili-
tary Establishment for 5s. per day, afterwards increas-
ed to 6s. 9d. until 1729, when he died. Members of
the family, with his christian and surname, appear on
the Army Lists of successive years. In that of 1759,
when was raised in three weeks the 19 th Eegiment
or Light Drogheda Dragoons, Michael Shanly was its
Quarter-Master. In 1785, William Shanley, the
lineal descendant of this Captain William, was High
Sheriff of the County of Leitrim ; and his son Walter,
now an engineer in Canada, appears to represent the
Sept.

CAPTAINS ' GREENE' AND WILLIAM
MULLOY.

The O'Mulloys or O'Molloys claim descent from
Niall of the Nine Hostages, and were anciently Lords
of Fearcall in the King's County, a district extend-

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ing over the present Baronies of Ballyboy, Bally cowen
and Eglish, with much of those of Geshil and Garry-
castle. Of the early and interesting annals of this
family, it can only be here noticed that in September,
1189, Albin O'Mulloy, then Bishop of Ferns, officiated
with the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin, and
with other Prelates and Nobles, at the coronation of
the renowned Richard Coeur de Lion in Westminster
Abbey.* In the commencement of the fifteenth cen-
tury, Hugh O'Mulloy founded the celebrated Carmelite
monastery of Kilcormuck, in the heart of Fearcall, in
which he was interred in 1454. The state papers of
the time of Henry the Eighth record numerous evi-
dences of the struggles of the O'Mulloys to uphold the
independence of their Sept and territory. At length,
in 1538, a treaty was concluded by the Lord Deputy
with their Chief, by which he (Cahir O'Mulloy)
bound himself " to pay to the King all rents and
revenues due and accustomed on the country of
Fearcall, and to wait on the Deputy at any time and
as often as he will, with six horsemen and forty kern,
during one day and one night, having warning three
days before the day appointed." In 1585, when, in
the language of the Four Masters, a Parliament was
given to the people of Ireland (for these assemblies
were previously composed exclusively of the English
or Anglo-Irish Lords and proprietors), this Sept was
represented by Conall, the son of Cahir O'Mulloy.
At a somewhat earlier period, the O'Mulloy was

* Hoveden, p. 656.

COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 789

appointed by the Crown hereditary Bearer of the
British Standard in Ireland, in right of which honour
an official coat of arms was granted, representing
vert a mounted Knight in armour, on a steed richly
caparisoned argent ; and bearing in his hand the
British standard, and on his shield the family armo-
rials. This right was recognized in 1595, when, on
the march of the Lord Deputy, Sir William Eussell, to
the North, the Royal standard of England was borne
on the first day, as within the Pale, by O'Mulloy,
and in the next, after passing out of the Pale, by
O'Hanlon, the hereditary standard bearer of O'Neill.
The privilege was subsequently, in 1634, recorded,
and the armorials exemplified by certificate from the
Office of Arms. Early in the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth, Anthony O'Mulloy, a younger son of Hugh
O'Mulloy, then Chief of Fearcall, migrated to the
County of Roscommon, where he became the founder
of the Hughstown and Oakport lines. He is said to
have filled the important offices of Vice-President of
the Council, and Provost Marshal of the Province of
Connaught. He died in 1603, when the Inquisition
post mortem describes him by the same cognomen as
one of the above Captains, ' Greene Mulloy.' In
1613, a portion of the Fearcall inheritance was grant-
ed to Francis Blunde, ' clerk of the Commissioners for
defective titles,' while the estates of others of the Sept
in the same county, who had been 4 attainted' or ' slain
in rebellion,' were given to Gerald, Earl of Kildare.
The declaration of Royal gratitude, which is incor-

790

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

porated in the Act of Settlement, acknowledges the
services of Captain Charles O'Mulloy, Lieutenant
Edmund O'Mulloy, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Mulloy,
Captain Art Mac Turlough Mulloy, Lieutenant John
Molloy, Lieutenant John Mac Art Molloy, Lieutenant
Edward Molloy, Ensign Fenagh Molloy, Captain
Turlogh Molloy of Ballyboy, King's County, and
Terence Molloy of Gortachuttery in said county.
Besides the above two Captains, there appear upon
this List Robert Molloy, a Quarter-Master in Lord
Galmoy's Horse ; James, a Lieutenant in the King's
Infantry ; John, an Ensign in Colonel Henry Dil-
lon's ; and Hugh Molloy, in Colonel Heward Ox-
burgh's. Edward O'Mulloy, of the above mentioned
Hughstown line, was appointed one of the Burgesses
in King James's charter to Boyle ; and he, marrying
Mary, daughter of the O'Conor Don, had by her a
son, the above Captain 4 Greene' Mulloy. Connor
O'Mulloy, the elder brother of the above Edward, was
the lineal ancestor of the families of Hughstown and
Oakpost.* He had two sons, Theobald and William
O'Mulloy, who, as frequently occurred in that distract-
ed period, espoused different lines of policy. Theo-
bald took part with King William, was a Captain of
his Dragoons at the Battle of the Boyne, and, accord-
ing to the family tradition, when that King's horse
was shot under him, Theobald presented his own
charger to His Majesty. He lived to a great age, and,

* For a full memoir of this family, see D' Alton's Annals of
Boyle, vol. 1, p. 97, &c.

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dying in 1734, was buried at Ardcarne near Boyle.
His son Charles, being in Athlone when some of
King James's officers were raising recruits there, was
enlisted into that service, and was actually taken
prisoner at the Boyne, by the Regiment of which his
father was Captain ; he was then but seventeen, and
in consideration of that father's services was pardoned,
afterwards served for William, and at the siege of
Sligo was wounded in the leg.* William, the second
son of Connor O'Mulloy, was the above Captain ;
who, marrying Alison, daughter of Sir Oliver Tuite
of Sonna, County of Westmeath, left issue by her.
He was attainted in 1691, with four others of the
Sept, described as located about their ancient territory.

CAPTAIN LAUGHLIN NAUGHTON.

The O'Naughtons were an ancient Irish Sept of the
County of Gal way, located about the country now
comprised in the Baronies of Leitrim and Longford.
Besides the three Naughtons in this Regiment, Thady
Naughton was a Lieutenant in Colonel Henry
Dillon's Infantry, and Thomas Mac Naghton a Cap-
tain in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's. The latter, how-
ever, was of the Scottish Plantation in Ulster, and not
of the native Sept.

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 897.

792

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

CAPTAIN BRYAN MAC GO WEAN.

Ortelius's map locates this Sept between Leitrim and
Cavan ; they were more especially indigenous in the
Barony of Tullaghaw in the latter county, and the
Four Masters record the successive chiefs of the Sept.
In 1593, the Maguires perpetrated a predatory incur-
sion over Cavan, in which Dr. Edmund Mac Gawran,
the titular Primate of Armagh, was accidentally
killed ; he being then protected by Maguire from the
consequences of proscriptions and a reward offered for
his apprehension. At the time of the Plantation of
Ulster, several of the Mac Gowrans were necessitated
for their protection to sue out pardons from the
Crown, and, in the immediately succeeding years,
grants were made and manors created out of their
lordship of Tullaghaw ; as the manor of Calva to
Hugh Culme, other lands to Sir George and Richard
Graeme ; and, in 1614, all the mountains of Quilca,
Slieve-an-erin, &c. to John Sanclford. Phelimy Magow-
ran, however, and others of the Sept obtained from the
King some small reserved portions within Tullaghaw,
to hold on the conditions of the Plantation ; but even
these scanty concessions were, early in the reign of
Charles the First, subjected to searching and hostile
inquisitions. This family, nevertheless, contributed
an officer to King James's cause, and are still, though
in humble circumstances, a marked race within their
old Barony. In truth, their Barony is popularly
known as ' the Kingdom of Glan,' and is to this day so
isolated, that it is said " no public road leads into it,
and only one difficult pass, in some places a track-

COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 793

way, is seen over it. It is about sixteen miles in
length by seven and a-half in breadth, and is densely
inhabited by a primitive race of Mac Gowrans, who
intermarry with each other, and observe some pecu-
liar customs, as an especial election of their own King
and Queen from the tribe, to whom they pay implicit
obedience." A bard of this family, commemorated by
Hardiman in his Irish Minstrelsy, composed, amongst
other poems, one entitled 4 the Revelry of O'Rourke,'
which has been the subject of Dean Swift's well-
known parody,

' O'Rourke's noble fare shall ne'er be forgot!' &c.

CAPTAIN OWEN GALLAGHER.

The native Topographers locate the O'Gallaghers in
the Baronies of Tyrhugh and Raphoe, County of
Donegal, where they had Castles at Lifford and Bally-
shannon. In 1397, an O'Gallagher was Bishop of
Clonmacnoise, Laurence O'Gallagher was Bishop of
Raphoe in 1419, and in 1549, Redmond Gallagher
was Bishop of Killala. The Sept is characterized in
the history of their country as commanders of O'Don-
nell's cavalry, and their achievements in that service
are subjects of many annals. At the siege of Sligo by
O'Donnell in 1495, William, son of the O'Gallagher,
L e. of Edmund, son of Donogh, son of Laughlin,
and Owen, son of Cormac O'Gallagher, were amongst
those killed by the guards of the castle. In two

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years after, in a battle fought between the O'Neills
and O'Donnells, three of the leaders under O'Donnell,
named O'Gallagher, were slain at Ballysadare. In
Perrot's Parliament of 1585 appeared as Representa-
tive of this Sept 'the O'Gallagher, i.e. John, son of
Tuathal, son of John, son of Eoderic, son of Hugh.'
The Masters record the death in 1595 of ' Sir John
O'Gallagher, the son of Tuathal, a man of great fame
and renown among the English at that time.' When,
in six years after, O'Donnell went southward to the
Munster war, he entrusted the custody of his Castle
of Ballymote to the O'Gallagher, i. e., Owen, son of
John O'Gallagher. The Act of 1612, for the Attain-
der of Hugh O'Neill, late Earl of Tyrone, Pvory O'Don-
nell, late Earl of Tyrconnel, and their adherents, in-
cludes in the severity of its enactments Hugh More
DoneU 0' ' Gallachor,' and Turlogh Carrach O'Gal-
lacher, both described as ' late of Donegal.' The only
one of the name on the Outlawries of 1691 is Ferdo-
roagh O'Gallagher of Boylagh, County of Donegal ;
while Harris, the Williamite historian of this cam-
paign, writing of the capitulation of Limerick, says,
" the numerous Sept of O'Gallagher in the County of
Mayo submitted to Colonel James Wynne, and offered
to receive pay under him in the army."

ENSIGN PAUL DUIGNAN.

The O'Duigenans were located at Kilronan, in the
northern division of the County of Eoscommon, and

COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY.

795

are especially celebrated in the native annals for their
devotion to the history and literature of their
country. Manus O'Duigenan was, at the close of the
fourteenth century, engaged in drawing up a conside-
rable portion of the Book of Ballymote; subsequently
to which a Chronicle was compiled that, deriving its
title from the locality of this family, was called the
Book of Kilronan, or sometimes the Book of the
O'Duigenans ; and it was one of the Chronicles from
which the Four Masters, one of whom was Cucorgh-
righe O'Duigenan, collected their great work in 1632.
In 1339, the Church of Kilronan was begun by Ferral
Muinach O'Duigenan ; it stood over Lough Meelagh,
and has a deep national interest, as in a vault close
to the ruins, erected for the family of Mac Dermott
Eoe, were deposited the last earthly remains of the once

celebrated Carolan. The Four Masters have, as

might be expected, numerous obits of O'Duigenans,
each of whom is commemorated as a learned historian
or philosopher. In 1588, Duffy O'Duigenan wrote a
History of the Sept of the O'Donnels.

ENSIGN MORGAN McDONOUGH.

Tins Sept has been before treated of ante, p. 609,
&c, and here it can alone be stated that the Attain-
ders of 1691 name ten of the County of Sligo family,
with four of Cork and one of Arklow.

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ENSIGN THOMAS WALGRAVE.

Nothing worthy of insertion has been learned regard-
ing him or his family.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. Richard Grace.

Robert Grace,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Charles Moore, ..

Major.

Richard Grace.

Mark Baggott. Francis M'Donnell. Patrick Connor.

Robert Walsh. Walter ' Daton.' Adam Walsh.

Robert Grace. Richard Grace. Nicholas Dale.

Edward Caddon, { Thomas Pearson.

Grenad. \ James Caddon.

Patrick Browne. John D'Alton. Thomas Guibenny.

James6 Shortall } William Shortall. John Knaresborough.

Matthew Hoar. Thady O'Bryan.

Robert Grace. Valentine Bolger.

COLONEL JOHN GRACE.

The late Mr. Sheffield Grace has devoted a large
quarto volume to the honours and lineage of this

COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY.

797

family, which the author of this work does not
wish to intrude upon. Colonel Eichard Grace, the
younger son of Bobert Grace, Baron of Courtown, in
the commencement of the reign of King Charles the
First, went over to England, and distinguished him-
self in the cause of that ill-fated monarch up to the
surrender of Oxford in 1646, when he came back to
Ireland, and raised, by his wealth and influence, a
force of about 3,000 men ; at the head of which he
for" several years made himself so formidable to the
Parliament and Cromwell, that they offered £500 for
his head, but afterwards admitted him to an honor-
able capitulation, by the terms of which he was allow-
ed to embark for the Continent with a Eegiment of
1,200 men, and was even to be supplied with money
and every other necessary for the voyage. He had
the glory of being the last who held out for the Eoyal
cause in Ireland, and with his brave companions
signalized himself in the French and Spanish services,
with loyalty and attachment to the exiled Eoyal
family. He was denounced by Cromwell's ordinance
of 1652, thanked in the Act of Settlement, made
Chamberlain to the Duke of York, (afterwards James
the Second), and on the Eestoration, returning with
the Stuarts, was restored to his estates in the King's
County, had also a grant of the reversion of some
valuable lands in the County of Kildare, and was
further rewarded with a pension of £300 per annum
by James the Second in 1685. After that monarch's
flight from Ireland, Colonel Eichard Grace was ap-

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pointed Governor of Athlone, in which trust he dis-
played zeal and activity, equally worthy of his youthful
achievements at home and on the Continent, and as-
tonishing in such an old man. ' When William's

commander, Lieutenant-General Douglas, sent a drum-
mer to summon the fortress, the Colonel, firing a
pistol in the presence of the messenger, replied, 4 These
are my terms, these only will I give or receive, and
when my provisions are consumed I will defend till I

eat my boots.' In the account of the final surprise

of this town by De Ginkle in the following year, it is
mentioned in the London Gazette of the day, that the
body of the venerable warrior, by whom the place had
been in the previous year so successfully defended,
was found among the dead, where he had lain from
the day before.

The above Colonel John Grace was the near kins-
man of Colonel Richard, and the last Palatine Baron
of Courtstown. He had been in his youth restored
to his estates in Kilkenny and Tipperary, was Sheriff
of the former county in 1687, and one of its Repre-
sentatives in the Parliament of 1689. On the eve of
the Revolution he raised and equipped this Regiment,
and also a troop of horse at his own expence for King
James, whom he farther assisted with money and
plate.* This Regiment of Infantry was one of those
stationed in Dublin when King James landed at Kin-
sale, and, though on this List so short of its propor-
tions, it was stated, on a Muster Roll taken after the

* Green Book, p. 357.

COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY.

799

Battle of the Boyne, to consist of thirteen companies,
of a total of 650 men ; while on that Roll was also
set down an ' Independent Company or Troop styled
Old Colonel Grace's (evidently Colonel Richard's)
of sixty men.'* Besides these two Colonels and the
other 4 Graces' in this Regiment, there are on the
Army List Oliver Grace, a Captain in Colonel Simon
Luttrell's Dragoons, (probably identical with the
Major Grace who was taken prisoner at Aughrim);
J ohn Grace, a Lieutenant in the King's Infantry ; and
in Fitz-James's, Walter Grace was a Lieutenant and
another Oliver Grace an Ensign. Captain Oliver
was one of the Representatives of Ballinakill in the
Parliament of 1689. The Attainders of 1691 include
the above Colonel John Grace of Courtstown (who
was seised of considerable estates in Gowran and
Crannagh, County of Kilkenny), the above Richard,
described as also of Courtstown, and four other Graces.
At the Court in Chichester House, claims were prefer-
red as attaching to the estates of Richard, John, and
Robert Grace in the King's County and County of
Kilkenny. In 1703, Richard Grace's estate in Clare
was sold to John I vers of Mount I vers in said county,
while a portion of his Kilkenny estates was purchased
by the Hollow Swords' Blades Company, as were
likewise portions of the Kilkenny estates of John,
Robert, and Oliver Grace, and part of the King's
County estates of John and Richard, Other parcels

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, vol. 2, pp.
513-H.

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of the King's County estates of the latter, comprising
the Castle of Moyally, were bought by Nathaniel
Boyse ; while Colonel George Carpenter of Nether-
court purchased Killanny, County of Kilkenny, the
estate of John Grace. A petition of the following
year is recorded in the State Papers of the Southwell
Collection, dated in 1704, from Oliver Grace, whose
house, household goods, &c. at Ballymone in the
King's County were destroyed by fire in this year, to
the value of £300 ; praying, for his relief, the benefit
of a full collection in and throughout the churches
and chapels of Dublin, and those of the Provinces of

Leinster, Munster, &c. At the battle of Ypres in

1745, a Captain Grace of Roth's Brigade was killed.

CAPTAIN MARK BAGGOTT.

This family, early after the invasion, passed into Ire-
land. In 1280, Robert ' Bagod' obtained a grant of
the manor of the Rath near Dublin, with the water-
course of the Dodder and the common of woods, &c.
A castle was soon after erected there, and it was hence
to the present day distinguished by the name of Bag-
got-rath. In 1302, he was summoned to aid King
Edward in the Scottish war. The name subsequently
extended over the Pale, as in Kildare, Meath, Car-
low, and even to Limerick. The only attainder of
the family in 1642 is that of Thomas Bagot of Castle-
martin, County of Kildare. The above officer was

COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 801

the son of a Mr. John Bagot, by Edith his wife, who
died in 1684, having had several children by him
(as shown by a funeral entry in Bermingham Tower).
Of her issue, only this Mark Bagot survived. He
was one of the Kepresentatives of the Borough of
Carlow in the Parliament of 1689, while John Bag-
got of Bagotstown, senior, was one of those for Char-
leville, and John Baggot junior for Doneraile. On
the List of the Sheriffs, recommended to be appointed
in 1685-6 by the Earl of Clarendon, Edward Baggot
was named for the King's County, as ' reputed dis-
honest but loyal ;' to which the Lord Clarendon's
return is underlined, 4 very loyal, though once ques-
tioned for favouring Tories, but acquitted ; some
think him to be a Roman Catholic.'* A Lieutenant-
Colonel Baggot (possibly this Captain, on promotion)
was taken prisoner at Aughrim.f Nine Baggots were
attainted in 1691, on whose estates, in Carlow and
Limerick Counties, divers claims were made and al-
lowed at Chichester House ; the former were chiefly
sold to the Right Honorable Philip Savage, then Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.

CAPTAIN EDWAPtD C ADDON.

This officer is described in the Inquisition on his
Attainder, as Edward Caddon of Kilkenny, merchant.

* Singers Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 285.
t Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 137.

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A James Caddon, of the same place and profession,
and a William Caddon of Cork were likewise then
outlawed.

CAPTAIN JAMES SHORTALL.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Second. Ortelius's map locates them in
the Barony of Iverk, County of Kilkenny, where
many of their castles are still standing, as at Claragh,
Kilbline, Tubrid, Cloghmantagh, &c. In 1642, a
Richard ' Shortaun,' described as of Lemrick, County

of Wexford, was attainted. The above officer was

attainted as James Shortall of Kilrush, County of
Kilkenny ; as were Robert Shortall of the same place,
Patrick Shortall of Tubrid, Nicholas of Shortalls-
graig, and Robert of Upper-Clare, all in the same
county ; with Nicholas Fitz-Piers Shortall of the
City of Kilkenny.

CAPTAIN MATTHEW HOAR.

This family are of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Second. Sir David 6 le Hore' of the
Pole in Wexford was Sheriff of that county in 1334,
as was his son Nicholas in 1370, 1377, and 1379.
About the latter year, William le Hore was Chief
Serjeant of Wexford, of which county his son, another

COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 803

Nicholas, was Sheriff in 1390 and 1396. A funeral
entry of 1636, of record in the Office of Arms, cer-
tifies the death, on the 11th May in that year, of
Edward Hore of Harperstown, County of Wexford,
buried at ' Monneth.' He had married Alison, daugh-
ter of Thomas Hore of Waterford, merchant, by whom
he left three sons, Andrew, Thomas, and Luke, and
three daughters. In 1642 were attainted Philip and
James 1 Hore' of Kilsallaghan, County of Dublin. Of
the Confederate Catholics at the Council of Kilkenny
in 1646, were William Hore of Cork and another
William Hoare. In 1685-6, an Association originated
in Ireland for the object of obtaining Catholic Eman-
cipation. Its character and scope, as reported by the
Earl of Clarendon, are published in Singer's Corres-
pondence, &c. (vol. i, p. 233, &c.) Gentlemen were
appointed and entrusted in every county to collect
contributions, and to pay same to the above Mr.
Luke Hore, then a merchant in Dublin ; " and whereas
several natives of this kingdom are merchants abroad
in foreign parts, their contributions are expected, and
requested to be paid to the said Luke Hore, who is to
deliver all such moneys as he shall so receive, to
agents approved of by the Earl of Tyrconnel."

The above Captain Matthew was of Shandon,
County of Waterford ; he was one of the members for
that county in the Parliament of 1689, and became
afterwards a Lieutenant-Colonel.* Besides him there
were, in the Parliament of Dublin, John Hore and

* Nichol's Top. et Gent, for 1853, pp. 486-7.

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Martin Hore, members for the Borough of Dungar-
van ; as were George Hore of Pole-Hore and Walter
Hore of Harperstown for that of Taghmon. The
Attainders of 1691 name the said Luke as 4 Lucas
Hoare of Wexford,' the above Captain Matthew
styled of Waterford, with George, Walter, John, and
Martin Hoare.

LIEUTENANT THOMAS PEARSON.
He was attainted as ' Thomas Pierson of Kilkenny.'

LIEUTENANT JOHN D'ALTON.

See of this family at ' Captain Miles D' Alton, ' in
Colonel Clifford's Dragoons. They had large estates
in the County of Kilkenny, as shown by the descrip-
tions of their attainders.

LIEUTENANT VALENTINE BOLGER,

The O'Bolgers were an Irish Sept located in Wexford
and Carlow. In 1461, William O'Bolger, a chaplain
of the Irish nation, had a charter of denization from
King Edward the Fourth, as by special grace and
favour, granting to him freedom from all Irish servi-
tude, liberty to use English laws and customs, to plead

COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 805

and be impleaded in the courts, and to acquire lands,
tenements, and services for ever. * A branch of this
family was in the seventeenth century settled at
Blanchfieldstown, in the County of Kilkenny, of which
county this officer was a native. His name does not
appear on the attainders of 1691, but that of James
Bolger, described as of Inistiogue in that county,
does ; and in his estates there Pat. Bolger, a minor,
claimed and was allowed an estate tail, subject to
which interest it was sold to Arthur Anderson, clerk.

ENSIGN NICHOLAS DALE.

The name is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Tudors, but nothing has been ascertained of this
officer or his family.

ENSIGN JOHN KNAKESBOROUGH.

He also was of Kilkenny, described in his attainder
as of Ballcallon in that county.

* Pat. Roll. l,Edw. 4.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S.

Captains.

Lieutenants.

Ensigns.

The ColoneL

John Ennis,

Lieutenant- Colonel.

[Garret Geoghegan,]

Major.

Edmund Butler,

C Edmund Butler.

Grenad.

John Fitzgerald.

Oliver Purcell.

John Butler.

John Fitz-Patrick.

Darby Fitz-Patrick.

James Blanchville.

Samuel Leigh.

Nicholas Blanchville.

John Rowsh.

Thomas ' Hah erne.'

William Comin.

James Baron.

[Daniel Magrath.]

[John Magrath.]

John Power.

[William Dormer.]

Patrick Pay.

[Michael Blanchfield.]

[George Gafhey.]

[John Brenan.]

[John Loughnan.]

[Michael Forster.]

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER,

The notices of this noble family, as full as could be
allowed in this volume, are inserted at Lord Viscount
Galmoy. This officer appears to have been the
Edward Fitz-Richard Butler of Kilkenny there men-
tioned to have been attainted in 1691. At any rate,
it is of certainty that this Regiment was on the 4th
May of that year engaged in a skirmish with Major
Woods of the Williamite party near Castle Cuff, who
reported his success on that occasion, giving a list of

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 807

officers, expressly as of Colonel Edward Butler's
Infantry, who were there taken prisoners ; as Captains
Michael Forster and Edmund Butler, Lieutenants
Daniel Magrath, William Dormer, Oliver Purcell,
Michael Blanchjielcl, and Ensign John Magrath.
This Eegiment was on that occasion commanded by
John Fitz-patrick, a Captain on this List, but then
the Major. The names italicised do not appear on
the original Army List, but are inserted as being
thus verified.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN ENNIS.

On the Attainders of 1642 appear the names of
James and Maolmurry Ennis of Grannagh, County of
Wicklow ; James Ennis of Clane, County of Kildare,
and Walter ■ Enes' of Hacketstown, clerk. A Lieute-
nant James ' Enis' is included in the clause of Eoyal
gratitude in the Act of Settlement, but nothing has
been learned worthy of notice respecting this Lieuten-
ant-Colonel or his family.

[MAJOR GARRET GEOGHEGAN].

This appointment is filled on the authority of the
Appendix to King's State of the Protestants. For
full particulars of this name, see ante, Major Conly
Geoghegan, on Lord Dongan's Dragoons.

808 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

CAPTAIN JAMES BLANCHVILLE.

This family is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Tudors, and was especially located in the County
of Kilkenny ; where Gerald Blanchville died seised
of considerable estates in 1594. In the Cathedral of
Kilkenny a monument records his lineal descendant,
Sir Edmund Blanchville, who forfeited largely by
attainder in 1641. The Outlawries on that occasion
include the names of two other Blanchvilles.

CAPTAIN JOHN POWSH.

So stands this name upon the present Army List, but
it is evidently a mis-spelling for Kooth or Pothe, a
family of much note and rank in Kilkenny. The
most illustrious of the name was Dr. David, son of
Geoffry Poth of that county, who filled the See of
Ossory from 1641 to 1650, and during all that
troubled interval continued in Kilkenny, the chief
town of his Diocese, the seat of the Supreme Council,
and the residence of the Pope's Nuncio, Cardinal
Pinuccini. Messingham, in his Florilegium (p. 87),
says of this Prelate, that " he was well versed in
learning, was an elegant orator, a subtle philosopher,
a profound divine, an eminent historian, and a sharp
reprover of vice." In the Cathedral of Kilkenny
stands a much admired cenotaph to his memory. He
was the author of several works, his principal produc-

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 809

tion being the Analecta Sacra, Nova, et Mir a de
Rebus Catholicorum, <fyc.

CAPTAIN JAMES BARON.

The surname of ' Le Baron' is of early and extensive
record over England and Scotland, while in Ireland
6 Baroun' occurs from the days of Edward the Second,
chiefly in connexion with the County of Tipperary.
Burke, in his Landed Gentry, relies that it was a
branch of the great Hibernian Sept of Fitz-Gerald,
which, having been early created Palatine Barons of
Burnchurch, used to distinguish themselves by adopt-
ing'the title as their patronymic* Geoffrey Baron,
styled of Clonmel, but then in France,f was one of
the Supreme Council at Kilkenny, appointed by the
Nuncio a Commissary over the Revenues of Ireland.
He was consequently, in Cromwell's Denunciation of
1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate. The
name does not appear on the Attainders of 1642 ;
and on those of 1691 are only Patrick Baron of
Killisk, County of Wexford, and John and Richard
Barron of Waterford.

* See fully of this name in Sir Bernard Burke's Baronetage
(at Sir Henry Winston Barron), p. 61.
f De Burgo's Hib. Dom., p. 881.

810 king james's irish army list.

CAPTAIN PATRICK PAY.

A Francis Pay was also a Captain in Colonel
Heward Oxburgh's Infantry. The name of the latter
does not appear on the Attainders of 1691, but that
of Patrick does, described as of Ballyraggett, County of
Kilkenny. James, Thomas, and William Pay were
then also attainted as of Kilmuckar, in the same
county.

[CAPTAIN GEORGE GAFNEY.]

The name of this officer is not on this Army List, but
as, through the research of the Reverend James
Graves, Honorary Secretary of the Kilkenny Archaeo-
logical Society, very full extracts from a document,
that purports to be the autograph " Memorandum
Book of Captain George Gafney of Kilkenny, an
officer of King James's Army," have been communi-
cated to that deserving body, and published in their
Transactions of July, 1854, the opportunity was
embraced, with their and his kind permission, of
here noting therefrom what appeared relevant to the
present subject. " The family of Gafney," writes Mr.
Graves to the compiler of this work, " seems to have
been founded or at least raised to a noticeable posi-
tion in the Irish-town of Kilkenny, by the Prelate of
that name, Christopher, who filled the See of Ossory
from 1565 to 1576 ; and the name frequently occurs

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY.

811

in the Corporation Books. Robert Gafney was a
chaplain in Kilkenny in 1585, possibly a son of the
Bishop, while Thomas Gafney had a lease of various
houses in that city under the See, and was doubtless
another son of Dr. Christopher. Thomas died in
1629, leaving Patrick his son and heir, then of full
age and married. Most probably, Captain George
was of this line."

The dates of the entries in the Memorandum
Book extend over a period of about eighteen months,
terminating a few days before the battle of the Boyne,
where it would seem the writer fell. The first entry
worthy of notice bears date {circa 29th) March,
1689.

" A List of Captain George Gafney his Company of Foot, in the
Right Honourable Colonel Butlers Regiment.

" Captain George Gafney, Lieutenant John Brenan, and Ensign
John Loughnan," with the ' sargents,' corporals, and privates
fully, by name."

Next come his charges to and from Dublin, dated
4th April, 1689 : —

£ s. d.

" To my charges going and coming from Dub-
lin, to get the three commissions entered in
the Muster-Master- General's office, and for
expedition - - . - - -186
For a drum in Dublin, and ' carige' - - 1 0 0
For a new drum head, and putting it on - 0 1 6
For drum-sticks - - - - - 0 1 6

For sixteen spear heads at 8d. per - - 0 10 8
One and a-half a st. Steele put in ye speares 0 0 4

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

£ s.

For nails for the speares - -- ---

0 0

Paid Paul Heare for making my own ' leding

stafe,' -

0 6

Paid do. for a musket 3s., for fixing

the lock, 6d. ------

0 3

For a scabbard and handle for the broad back

sorde - - - - - - -

0 3

For the back sorde to P. Heare - - -

0 2

For two rapiers to P. Heare -

0 3

For a rapier that was broken by the ' sargent'

1 0

Another entry of April 9th, 1689, suggests

that

King James was on that night in Kilkenny : —

" Gave the men a barrel of ' beere' to drink
the King's health the night he came to Kil-
kenny 0 16 0

One lb. of powder to give a ' voley' - - 0 2 0

Next, at the close of the year, after the landing of
Schomberg, and in the immediate view of active ser-
vice, occurs a prudent financial ' account of what cash
I have by me, and the value of each coin' : —

" To ten i gines' at 24s. per gine

- £12

To one ' Portingall pece'

- 1

To 1 to' broad jabons at 26s. per -

- 2

To one half jabons at 13s. per

To one quarter jabons

- 0

To one broad Carolus

- 1

To ' to' half do. at 12s. 6d. -

- 1

To { to' quarter do. at 6s. 3d. -

- 0

To one half Edward -

- 0

Forward, In ' goulde' the

sums of - £21

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY.

813

Forward, in 1 goulde the sums of
To cash in silver the sums of
To English money -
To cash in silver in one purs

£ s. d.

- 21 15 0

- 86 16 8£

- 13 0 74

- 100 0 0

In 1 goulde' and silver ye sum - 171 12 4

(Tot sic in error in orig.)

In ' bras' money - - - - 20 0 0

In ' bras' money in one 'purs' - 110 0 0

" It will be seen," observes Mr. Graves, " that the
writer carefully enters the rate of exchange of the
sterling money, showing a considerable premium in
consequence of the depressed state of the currency ; of
which an indication also occurs in the quantity of
brass money in the worthy Captain's exchequer."

"March 4th, 1689, expended in treating the
* Magerr,' &c, six ' hotels' of clarett and 1 to'
pots of March beer, &c. - - - - 0 8 1

March the 6th, 1689, [this and the last date,
it may be remarked, were subsequent to the
above of April in old style] -

Received of ' Magur' Corbett, per the hands of
Captain Eoche, a forthnight 1 subistans' for
my company until the 14th of March,
£14 Is. 4d., and for the odd days of the
former account, £5 0s. 5d. - - - 19 1 9

That is to say, 2 ' sargens' 6s. per week, three
corporals and one drummer at 3s. per, fifty
' privat' men at 2s. 4d. per.

On the 23rd April, 1690, drawn up at Droghecla,
within a few weeks of the battle of the Boyne, is a
" Memorandum cleared with the under-named for all

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

arrears of 4 groats' until this 23rd day of April, '90,
att Drocda." The list comprises the names of forty
persons.

Under several dates, extending over the months of
April and May, 1690, there are accounts kept of the
distribution of pumps, 'sherts,' stockings, &c, supplied
to Captain Gafney's company at Dundalk and
Drogheda. And last come what Mr. Graves considers
the most curious entries, viz., some general orders of
the army, " which, like a careful officer, Captain
Gafney had copied into his memorandum book." The
first of these, traceable, bears date June 18th, 1690 : —

" The General to beat att 4 the assemble when ordered; the
4 gards' for Moyree to be relieved by thirty men from O'Bryan,
c Bagnell,' Hamilton (John), and ' Bellu.' O'Bryan, Lieutenant-
Colonel, a Captain and Subaltern from each, with drum, two
sargens att 3 o'clock to be at the head of the guards to relieve
the like number att Moyree Castle, on the road to the ' Nurey.'
The detachment for the horses as usually is att 3 o'clock in the

morning, when the guards beat the assembly Simpetar,

Brigadiere for the day ; Lord Bellu, Colonel ; Hamilton, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel. Left-General Hamilton lost a 'guide wach with

seales' to it, if 1 anney souldier y* ' found it shall have ten shillins
for his pains, and if any bought it, he shall be returned his
money. The word St. ' Poule.' "

A few days before the battle of the Boyne, King
James encamped at Cookstown, near Ardee, when an
entry of the 24th of June, 1690, gives a list of the
Regiments there, and the order of encampment, as
follows :—

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 815

The first line on the right.
Seven Troops of Guards )
Duke of Tyrconnel's ' Segment' of Horse J
Three Battalions of the Royal 'Regment' "I
51 'Companeys' compute three ' Regments' J
Lord Antrim
Lord Bellu
' Gordean O'Neill'
Lord of Louth
Granprior

Seven of French, each cont. 16 companeys

per Regment ----- - 7

' GolmoyV Regment of Hors cont. nine

' trap' - -1

Maxfild's (Maxwell's) Regment of Dra-
goons ----- - -1

In Ardee Col. Gase (Grace) and ye ' to'

Col. Mac Mahons (Art & Hugh) - - 3

Second line on the right.

Lord of Clare his Regment of Dragoons - 1

Sunderland his Regment, five troops - 1

' Parker's' Regment of ' Hors' - - - 1

Hamilton's Foot
Lord of Westmeath
Sir Michael ' Cregh'
' Mahgilicutt'
O'Bryan

Buslo (Boiseleau)
Bagnall

Lord of ' Tirone'

' Dangan' (Dongan) his Regment of Dra-
goons, five Regments of Horse - 5
3 Regments of Dragoons - 3
With Colonel ' Sarsfild'
Col. Sarsfild's Regment of ' Hors'
Aprukorn's (Abercorn's) ' Hors'
Cliford's Draguns
Sir Neale 0"Neale's Dragoons
Colonel Carroll's Dragoons

816

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Foot.
Lord of Slane
1 Dilon'
Clanrickard
Galway
' Borke,'
Nugent

Cormanstown (Gorman ston)

Captain George Gafney was attainted in 1691 as
' of Kilkenny,' together with Connor Gafney of Drum-
brick, County of Lei trim.

LIEUTENANT SYMON CLEAR.

Clear or Cleere was also the name of a Kilkenny
family, established there previously to the period of
this campaign. Symon is described accordingly, on
the Inquisition for his attainder, as 1 of Downamore,
County of Kilkenny,' while at the same time was
attainted William 4 Cleere' 4 of Galway,' merchant.
The name is otherwise traced of record in Ireland
from the time of Edward the Second.

LIEUTENANT SAMUEL LEIGH.

The Leighs or Leas were old settlers in Kilkenny, and
were likewise established in the County of Kildare,
and other parts of Ireland. Thomas ■ Lee' was a
Quarter-Master in Lord Clare's Dragoons, and, in the

COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 817

Parliament of 1689, Francis Leigh was one of the
Representatives of the Borough of Kildare. The
name of Samuel does not appear on the Attainders of
1691, but that of Francis Leigh 1 of Rathbride,
County Kildare,' does. (His ancestor, John Lee of
the same place, was attainted in 1642). There were
also then outlawed five others of the name.

The name of ' Lee' was distinguished in the
achievements of the Irish Brigades, and O'Conor, in
his Military Memoirs, &c, very fully narrates the
exploits of one of this family, who, in 1690, ac-
quitted himself gallantly in the campaign in Pied-
mont, under the command of St. Ruth, before that
ill-fated General came over to Ireland. The annals
of this officer and of his Regiment are given by
O'Conor, who concludes in relation to him : " He
deserved a Marshal's staff, and would have obtained
one if versed in the intrigues of the Court ; but,
being a foreigner, his rewards were confined to the
great cross of the Order of St. Louis, and to the fame
he acquired. He was, at the siege of Lisle, severely
wounded by the bursting of a shell."

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL ART MAC MAHON'S.

This Regiment is wholly uncommissioned on the
present Army List. The Appendix to King's State
of the Protestants names, from a subsequent Muster

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Roll, Philip Reilly as its Lieutenant-Colonel, and
Hugh Magennis as its Major.

The Sept of Mac Mahon ranked as Princes of
Monaghan and territorial lords of Farney from very
old time, as is shown in a Report of Sir John
Davis, the Irish Attorney General to Elizabeth and
James the First. Their country was early subjected
to the inroads and devastation of Sir John de Courcy,
in his expedition for the conquest of Ulster. In
1314, King Edward directed an especial letter mis-
sive to Brien Mac Mahon, ' Duci Hibernicorum de
Uriel] to aid him in the Scottish war. In two years
after, at the memorable battle of Athenry, fought
between the English settlers in Connaught and the
natives, Morogh, son of Morogh Mac Mahon, with
one hundred of his people, was slain. At the close of
that century (1394), the Mac Mahon was one of the
Ulster Princes who 1 did homage and fealty to the
King's own person' (Richard the Second), in the
Dominican Friary of Drogheda. Nevertheless, in
1417, the Lord of Furnival, the celebrated Sir John
Talbot of Hallamshire, being Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, " rode against Mac Mahon, a great Irish enemy,
and a powerful chieftain of his nation, and him did
strongly invade by divers laborious hostings and
journeys, and burnt and destroyed one of his chief
places, with all his towns and corn about, and
wounded and killed a great multitude of his people."*

* Memorial of Irish Council, see D Alton's History of the Co.
Dublin, p. 31.

COLONEL ART MAC MAHON'S INFANTRY. 819

In 1507, James McMahon succeeded to the See of
Derry, as did Patrick McMahon to that of Ardagh in
1553. To Perrot's Parliament of 1585, when the
attendance of the Irish Chiefs was first invited, " went
McMahon, Prince of Oirgiall, namely Eossa, son of
Art, son of Bryan, son of Redmond, son of Glaisne."
This was the Chief who at last deemed it policy to
surrender to the Crown the territory which he had
theretofore held by the Irish law of Tanistry, and to
receive back from her Majesty a re-grant thereof to
himself and his heirs male, with remainder to his bro-
ther Hugh Eoe McMahon. Eossa died without issue,
and the Queen took occasion to break faith with
Hugh ; when the old inheritance, the subject of the
aforesaid surrender and re-grant, was divided between
the Marshal Sir Henry B agnail and Captain
Henslow, the latter being appointed ' Seneschal' of the
county. Down to the days of the aforesaid Eossa, the
succession of these Tanists of Monaghan is recorded
in the Annals of the Four Masters, the elections being
respectively conducted as is there shown, with the
sanction of the O'Neill as Lord Paramount. Mon-
aghan was then reduced to shire ground. The Act
of James, for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and
his abettors, included Brian Oge Mac 4 Mahowne,'
1 late of Clonleege in Upper Truagh, County of
Monaghan.' Previous to the passing of that measure,
many of this family had gone down to Munster to co-
operate with the Spanish invaders, and some on its

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king james's ipjsh army list.

failure had passed off to Spain. Sir William Fitz-
Williams, too, during his viceroyalty, had, "with good
wisdom and policy," as Sir John Davis says, in a
letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Mac
Mahons' territory, " divided the greatest part of that
county among the natives thereof, except the church
lands which he gave to English servitors." When the
Plantation system was brought into operation, such
terror did it awaken here, that no less than thirty-
nine of the Sept felt necessitated to sue out licences
of pardon for their protection. The last and most
memorable chief of Monaghan was Hugh Mac
Mahon, who actively co-operated with Sir Phelim
O'Neill in the great insurrection of 1641. In con-
junction with Connor Maguire, Baron of Enniskillen,
he conspired in 1641 to seize the Castle of Dublin;
but the plot was discovered by Owen O'Conolly,
whereupon McMahon and Maguire were made prison-
ers, transmitted to the Tower of London, and in
1644 both were tried and beheaded at Tyburn. A
state document, purporting to be a Return of 4 ancient
Irish in the King of Spain's dominions,' made about
the year 1622, names Owen Mac Mahon, Archbishop
of Dublin, bred in Salamanca, now in Ireland ;
Florence Conroy, Archbishop of Tuam, ' entertained
by his Majesty in the States of Flanders' ; Vincent
O'G-ara of the order of St. Dominick, Dan de la Cruz
of ditto, with various other Irish priests in Lisbon,
where is 1 Morish O'Mahon,' a secular priest. John
Mac Mahon of Rush, in the County of Dublin, was

COLONEL ART MAC MAHON'S INFANTRY. 821

the only obscure individual on the Boll of Attainders
of 1642 ; not one of that great name in Monaghan
was projected for the denunciation. At the Supreme

Council of Kilkenny, however, Colonel Mac

Brian Mac Mahon sat, and was consequently in Crom-
well's Act ' for settling Ireland' excepted from pardon
for life and estate.

This name was further commissioned in Fitz-
James's Infantry, in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's, in
Colonel Oliver O'Gara's ; and in the Earl of Clanri-
carde's, Bryan 4 Mahon' (whose lineage seems derived
from this great Sept), was a Lieutenant. The
Attainders of 1691 proscribe fourteen Mac Mahons.
The above Colonel Art Mac Mahon was entitled
' Oge,' being the younger brother of Father Gelasius
Mac Mahon, who was then the head of the House,
but who from his clerical character was incapable of
filling the station. Colonel Art was King James's
Lord Lieutenant for the County of Monaghan, his
Deputy Lieutenants being Brian and Hugh Mac
Mahon, Esquires, who also represented that county in
the Parliament of 1689. Hugh was the Captain
before marked in Fitz-James's Infantry, and appears
identical with the Hugh who was afterwards Lieuten-
ant-Colonel in the ' Brigade of Charlemont.' Imper-
fect as the Regiment appears in this List, a muster
taken after the battle of the Boyne reports it as
thirteen companies of a total of 650 men.* Colonel

* Singer's Corresp. v. 2, p. 513.

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Art was killed at the siege of Athlone* and on his
death, and the final extinction of James's hopes, father
Gelasius McMahon, the head of the Sept, retired to
the Continent. In 1747, Lieutenant Mac Mahon
was wounded at the battle of Laufneld, as was also a
Captain Mac Mahon mortally. Some few years after,
the ' Marquis of Mac Mahon,' Colonel of a French
Regiment, Knight of St. Louis, and of the American
order of Cincinnatus, acquitted himself with much
credit as Ambassador to the United States of America ;
and Colonel Mac Mahon, a Knight of Malta, distin-
guished himself in the service of France and Spain.f
The Monthly Chronologer for Ireland, in Exshaw's
Magazine for 1769 (p. 320), mentions as then occur-
ring the death of Mr. Patrick Mac Mahon, aged
eighty-eight years, one of those whose sons rose to the
dignity of a Marquis of France and a Knight of
Malta, while another was titular Bishop of Killaloe ;
nor must it be forgotten that on the recent storming
of the Malakoff, Mac Mahon was one of the two
Generals, to whom Marshal Pelissier attributed the
success of that splendid achievement.

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 108.
| Ferrar's Limerick, pp. 349-50.

COLONEL CHARLES MOORE'S INFANTRY.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL CHARLES MOORE'S.

The page on which the Roll of this Regiment was
drawn out has been torn from the present Army List,
and no clue has been discovered to ascertain its
strength. The List therefore does not exhibit him
except in the introductory sheet of Colonels, while the
name appears commissioned in six other Regiments.
The above Colonel was of the Ballina line, now repre-
sented by the Right Honourable Richard More
O'Ferral. His was that Regiment which General
Richard Hamilton and Berwick, after entering Cole-
raine, left there to garrison it ; whereupon these two
Commanders, uniting their forces with those of
Pusignan, advanced to the passes of the Finn and
Foyle for the siege of Deny.* This Regiment was
afterwards one of those which King James despatched
to Sligo, to retard the operations of the enemy there-
about,! 0R tne 4th May, 1691, this, with four other
Regiments under the command of Major John Fitz-
Patrick, encountered the Williamite forces of Major
Woods near Castle-Cuffe, when it is stated in a con-
temporaneous pamphlet that three officers of this
Regiment were made prisoners, viz., Lieutenants
William Dunn and Alexander Roch, and Ensign
Loughlin Moore. Colonel Charles was, in two

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 260.
t Clarke's James II., vol. 2, p. 382.

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months after, killed at the battle of Aughrim, it is
said in cold blood. His Lieutenant-Colonel and
Major also fell there.*

It would be a welcome duty here to trace the achieve-
ments of the noble Sept of O'More of Leix, from that
4 Chief of the Heroes of the Eed Branch' who is believed
to have been their founder ; the well authenticated
records of their succession in the Captaincy; the reli-
gious houses they founded and endowed ; the castles
they erected and maintained on the verge of the Pale ;
the many Bishoprics they governed ; the exploits of
the second Lysagh O'More, whose aid Edward the
Second sought by an express letter missive for the
Scottish war ; the chivalry of Anthony O'More at the
Pass of Plumes ; the bold bearing of Colonel Eoger
O'More, the father of the above Colonel Charles ; the
Eory O'More whose memory and name have been
fondly associated with the people's music. These and
many other details of national interest, connected with
the History of the Pale, are necessarily omitted, as they,
would occupy more space at the compiler's expense
than could be afforded in this already over-grown

volume. It must suffice to say that the Attainders

of 1621 include the above Colonel Charles 1 of
Ballyna,' with eighteen others of the name. At Chi-
chester House, Lewis Moore claimed and was allowed
a remainder for life in Ballina and other Kildare
lands forfeited by Charles Moore, as was Eoger Moore
a remainder in tail therein, and Bridget Moore and

* Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 138.

COLONEL DUDLEY BAGNALL'S INFANTRY. 825

Elizabeth Bellew, otherwise Moore, their children's
portions thereoff.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL DUDLEY BAGNALL'S.

Captains.
The Colonel.
James Power,

Lieutenant-Colonel.
[ Corbet,]

Major .
Geffry ' Pendergast.'
Nicholas Power.
John Meagher.
Daniel Hogan.
Kichard Fanning.
John Keating.
Richard Mansfield.
Bryan O'Bryan.
Thomas Purcell.
John Moclare.

Philip Dwyer.

Lieutenants.
William Bourke.
Thomas Meara.

Walter Pendergast.

Richard Wadding.

Edmund Meagher.

Richard Morres.

Edmund Connor.

Robert ' Pendergast.

Edmund Roche.

Murtogh O'Bryan.

John Dwyer.

Edmund Tobin.

( Thomas Dwyer.
( Edmund Butler.

Ensigns.
John Comerford.
Edward Butler.

James Pendergast.
Edmund Power.
Thomas Meagher.
William Hogan.
Thomas Butler.
Piers Keating.
David Roche.
Edward Butler.
Nicholas Purcell.
James Moclare.

COLONEL DUDLEY BAGNALL.

In 1552, i Raphe' Bagenall was one of the Privy
Council who then signed an order to provide for the
preservation of the Irish records. In the following

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year Sir Nicholas Bagnall had a grant of the dissolved
' College of Newry.' In May, 1559, Qneen Elizabeth
directed instructions "for recovering Lecale, Newry,
and Carlingford from the possession of the Scots, and
to recompense Sir Nicholas Bagnall for his interest."
In 1602, when the Lord Deputy of Munster thought
he might himself return from that Province, he com-
mitted the prosecution of the war there to (amongst
various other officers) Sir Samuel Bagnall ; and their
acts in pursuance of this power are very fully given
in the Pacata Hibemia. Sir Nicholas Bagnall, after
receiving the recompense above alluded to in lands,
assigned considerable estates in the County of Louth,
&c. to Viscount Claneboy, whereupon that nobleman
invited his brothers (Hamiltons) from Scotland, to
participate in the advantages which his rank, property,
and influence gave him in Ireland, and five of them
came over thereupon.* Cromwell's denunciation of
1652 excepted Walter Bagnall, Esq., from pardon for
life and estate ; but in many of the patents that were
passed after the Restoration, of lands in the County
of Carlow, savings were inserted of the rights of
Dudley Bagnall of Dunleckney, and of Walter, his
eldest son. This Dudley was the above Colonel ; he
also sat as the Representative for the County of Car-
low in the Parliament of 1689, and was attainted in
1691, when his son Walter claimed and was allowed
an estate for life to himself, and a remainder in tail
male to his issue in Dudley's Carlow confiscations ;

* D' Alton's Co. of Dublin, p. 472.

COLONEL DUDLEY BAGNALL's INFANTRY. 827

while Anne, said Dudley's wife, claimed and was
allowed jointure thereon, as were seven of his children
portions to the amount of £5,000, with remainders
in the lands as limited to them. •

[MAJOR CORBET].

This commission is given on the authority of the
Appendix to King's State of the Protestants. The
name is noticed ante, at Lord Abercorn's Horse.

CAPTAIN JOHN MEAGHER.

The O'Meaghers were in old time Lords of the terri-
tory now known as the Barony of Ikerrin, County of
Tipperary. King Charles's declaration of thanks for
services beyond the seas, embodied in the Act of
Settlement, includes this officer as then styled ' Lieu-
tenant John Meagher of Grange, County of Tipperary.'
Besides the three Meaghers in this Regiment, the name
stands commissioned on four others of this Army List,
In the Parliament of 1689, Thacly Meagher sat as
one of the Representatives of the Borough of Callan ;
while, in relation to the above officer, Colonel William
Wolseley wrote on the 10th of August, 1690, to
Secretary Southwell, ' from the camp near Mullingar,'
"My party had an encounter with seven Tories, whom
they sent into a bog and took two of them ; one was

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a Captain, his name was John Meagher, a notorious
ring-leacler of the rogues, and one that had done
great mischief in that country. I carried him and

his comrades to Maryborough, and there hanged

them I enclose Captain Meagher's confession,

which was taken upon him, by which you may judge
what his life and conversation 'has' been,"* The
Attainders of 1691 include five of the name.

CAPTAIN RICHARD FANNING.

Ortelius's map locates this family in the Barony of
Pobble-Brian, County of Limerick ; and the name is of
record in Ireland from the time of Edward the
Second. It was more especially influential in Lime-
rick, until the Munster war of Elizabeth's time.
Geoffrey Fanning of Glenagal and Patrick Fanning
of Limerick were of the Confederate Catholics at the
Supreme Council of 1646. Besides this Captain,
William and David Fanning were Quarter-Masters in
Colonel Henry Luttrell's Horse. On the Attainders
of 1691, the only Fannings mentioned are William of
Battyrath, County of Kilkenny, and David Fanning
of Kilkenny, merchant. Richard is not on the Roll,
nor are any of the Limerick Fannings.

* Clarke's Correspondence, MSS. T. C. D. Lett. 83.

COLONEL DUDLEY BAGNALL's INFANTRY.

829

CAPTAIN ' JOHN KEATING.'

1 Ketyng' is a name recorded in the Irish records
from the time of Edward the Second. In 1302,
James 4 de Ketyng' was one of the Irish magnates
invited to aid King Edward in the Scottish war.
None of the name appear on the Attainders of 1642 ;
and the Act of Settlement of 1662 provided (s. 214)
that Maurice, son and heir of Edmund or Edward
Keating of Narraghmore, County of Kildare, should
hold all and every the manors, towns, and lands
purchased in the King's County, in trust for his said
father from John Carroll, before the 23rd of October,
1641, "if the Lord Lieutenant and Council on hearing
merits, shall adjudge the same." This Maurice died
in 1683, and was buried at Narraghmore. " He had
married," says a funeral entry in Bermingham Tower,

" Judith, daughter of Cocks, by whom he had

issue four sons, Maurice, Edward, John, and Charles :
and two daughters ; Eleanor, married to Edward
Bolton of Brazeel, and Catherine. Said Maurice was
brother to John Keating, Lord Chief Justice of Ire-
land ;" and this Captain John appears to have been
Maurice's aforesaid third son. Besides Captain
Keating, Edmund Keating was a Lieutenant in Tyr-
connel's Horse, and Richard a Quarter-master in
Colonel Purcell's. In King James's new Charter to
Swords, the Chief Justice was one of the Burgesses ;
as was Walter in that to Wexford, and Henry in that

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to Waterford. The Attainders of 1691 include eleven
of this name.

The aforesaid Chief Justice was the most distin-
guished member of the family of Narraghmore, and
had been a servitor of King James when Duke of
York. In 1679, he was appointed Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas in Ireland, and so continued until
the close of the year 1691, when William and Mary
substituted Pyne for him. He married the widow of
Sir Richard Shucksburgh of Downton House, Wilt-
shire, who died in 1677, before his advancement to
the bench. In the Parliament of 1689, this judge
made a bold appeal to King James in behalf of the
purchasers under the Act of Settlement, and opposed
the party that would fain effect its total repeal ; while
he prudently suggested that a committee of both
houses of the then sitting Parliament might be ap-
pointed, to devise some medium course of legislation,
to accommodate, as nearly as possible, the claims of
both the purchasers and the old proprietors.* He
was, in the opinion of the Earl of Clarendon, " an
able and loyal judge, and gave frequent evidence of
his temperance and discretion, as in advising the
withdrawal of a prosecution, designed to be instituted
for words spoken of James the Second when Duke of
York, &c. ;" see also of him Duhig's History of the
King's Inns, p. 358.

* Clarke's Life of James II., v. 2, p. 358.

COLONEL DUDLEY BAGNALL'S INFANTRY. 831

CAPTAIN RICHARD MANSFIELD.

This officer was of the County of Waterford ; and, on
his attainder, Helena Mansfield, on behalf of John,
Matthew, Walter, James, and Thomas Mansfield,
the children of said Richard and Dorothy his wife,
claimed for them remainders in tail successively in
his estates ; while she herself claimed a jointure
thereoff, as widow of Walter Mansfield. Both peti-
tions were, however, dismissed as cautionary.

CAPTAIN PHILIP DWYER.

The O'Dwyers were chiefs of Kilnamanagh in the
County of Tipperary. In Perrot's Parliament of
1585, this Sept was represented by Philip, the son of
Anthony O'Dwyer. In 1608, Darbie O'Dwyre had
an extensive grant of lands in the County of Tippe-
rary, as had John O'Dwyer in 1612 for other castles,
towns, lands, and chief rents therein. John's de-
scendant, Philip O'Dwyer of Downedrom, was one of
the Confederate Catholics who assembled at Kilkenny
in 1646 ; while Edmund O'Dwyer, the Roman Ca-
tholic Bishop of Limerick, sat there as a Spiritual
Peer. Cromwell's Act of 1652, relentlessly hostile to
this 4 Council,' excepted from pardon for life and
estate the aforesaid Philip O'Dwyer, as also Owen
O'Dwyer, both of Tipperary. There further appear
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moy's Horse ; and another Philip Dwyer, a Lieutenant
in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's Infantry. The only
Dwyer who appears on the Attainders of 1691 is
Edward, described as of Cloncracken, County of Tip-

perary, merchant.— Some of the O'Dwyers were

commanders in 1 the Irish Brigades' in France, and
one was an Admiral in the Russian service.

LIEUTENANT RICHARD WADDING.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Third. Ortelius's map locates it in the
Barony of Middlethird, County of Tipperary ; while
in the seventeenth century it is more associated with
the Counties of Waterford and Wexford. Ware
mentions three writers of the name, John, Peter, and,
yet more, Luke, 4 a learned Franciscan friar, a
voluminous writer, and a great ornament to his coun-
try,' born at Waterford in 1558. At the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny sat Richard Wadding of Bally-
cogly, and Thomas Wadding of Waterford ; the
former was probably the above Lieutenant. He does
not appear on the Attainders of 1691 ; but a John
Wadding of his place, Ballycogly, is upon it, as is
also Arthur ' Waddin' of Enniscorthy.

COLONEL GORDON O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 833

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL GORDON O'NEILL'S.

This force is wholly unofficered on the present Army
List. The Appendix to King's State of the Protestants
names, from a subsequent Muster Roll, Con O'Neill
as its Lieutenant-Colonel, and Henry O'Neill as its
Major. Colonel Gordon was son of the celebrated Sir
Sir Phelim O'Neill of Kinard or Caledon, County of
Tyrone ; and was by James the Second appointed
Lord Lieutenant of that county, which he also repre-
sented in the Parliament of 1689. In his military
service, he, by the order of his Lieutenant-General,
Richard Hamilton, proclaimed protection " for all
such as would submit themselves, and lay down their
arms, and peaceably live in their own dwellings." At
the battle of Aughrim he ranked as a Brigadier,
where he was left for dead on the field ; but " being
recognized the following day by some Scotch officers,
connected with him through his mother (who was of
the noble house of Gordon in Scotland), they had
him kindly attended to, till he recovered of his
wounds. After gaining his liberty he followed the
Irish army to the continent, where he served as Colo-
nel of a Regiment, which, in compliment to him, was
called the Charlemont."* Of that Brigaded Regiment,
Hugh McMahon was Lieutenant-Colonel, and Edmund
Murphy Major.f

* O'Callaghan's Macaria3 Excidium, p. 433.
t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 199.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL NICHOLAS BROWNE'S, SIR VALENTINE
BROWNE'S, &C.

Captains.
The Colonel.
George Trapp,

Lieutenant- Colonel.
Dermott M'Auliffe,

Major.
William Lombard.
Edmund Ferriter.
Derby Grady.
William Murphy.
Richard Barry.
Art 0' 'Keife.'
William ' Heas.'
James Fitz-Gerald.
Dudley Fitz-Gerald.
Thady Callaghan.

Lieutenants.
Cornelius Callaghan.
Daniel M'Auliffe.

James Cogan.

Dermott Keaghley.
Arthur Nagle.
John Browne.
Maurice Murphy.
Garrett Barry.
Art 0 'Keife.
William Heas.
Edmund Fitz-Gerald.
James Heas.

Ensigns.
Geoffrey Donoghue.
Owen ' Callahane.'

Thomas Gold.

William Foulne.
Teigue Carty.
James Ryordan.
John Murphy.
Patrick Dermott.
Cornelius O'Keife.
John ' Hagherin.'
James Roche.
Dermott ' Ryardon.1

Callaghan Mac ' Callahane. John M'Callahane.

COLONEL NICHOLAS BROWNE.

This Colonel was the eldest son of Sir Valentine, Lord
Kenmare, at whose Regiment, ante, p. 634, &c, the
family is noticed. He was Sheriff of the County of
Cork in 1687 and 1690, and in the Parliament of
1689 was one of the Representatives of the County of
Kerry. In 1664, he married Helen, daughter of
Thomas Brown of Hospital, by whom he obtained a
considerable estate, which, with his own, was forfeited
by his attainder. The Crown, however, allowed her
£400 per annum for her life. At the Court of

COLONEL NICHOLAS BROWNE'S INFANTRY. 835

Claims, Catherine Browne, as a daughter of Sir
Valentine, Lord Kenmare, was allowed a portion and
maintenance off the estates of this Colonel Nicholas

(her father's son) in Kerry and Cork. Whitehall

Browne and Obadiah Browne claimed and were allowed
an estate for lives renewable for ever in Kerry, plots
forfeited by said Nicholas, then Lord Kenmare ; and
John Browne, for himself and for Joan Browne, alias
Butler, his wife, claimed and was allowed a term for
years in certain Kerry lands of Sir Nicholas or Sir
Valentine Browne. Colonel Nicholas himself died at
Ghent in 1720, leaving four daughters and one son,
Valentine, his successor, but not in the peerage.
This title having been of James's creation after his
abdication, was not recognized ; but in 1798, Valentine,
his grandson, was created Baron of Castlerosse and
Viscount Kenmare, and in 1800 was advanced to the
Viscounty of Castlerosse and Earldom of Kenmare. In
the Gentleman's Magazine for 1646, pp. 207-8, is an
account of the capture of the 1 Prince Charles Snow,'
carrying over officers and men in the Pretender's
service to Scotland ; with an interesting list of the
prisoners, mostly Irish, commanded by Colonel Brown,
then taken.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEOKGE TEAPP.

Nothing worthy of notice has been discovered con-
cerning this officer and his family.

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MAJOR DEEMOTT MAC AULIFFE.

The Mac Auliffes were located in the Barony of
Duhallow, County of Cork, where their territory ex-
tended from the river Alia to the borders of Limerick ;
their chief seat being Castle-Mac Auliffe near New-
market. The Four Masters record a great victory
obtained by the Mac Auliffe in 1535, over a branch of
the Fitz-Geralds. In 1612, the castle, with the " towns
and lands of Castle-Mac Auliffe and Carrig Cashel,
all called by the name of Clan Auliffe, and parcel of
the estate of Melaghlin Mac Dermot Mac Auliffe, late
of Castle-Mac Auliffe, attainted," were granted by
King James to Sir Thomas Eoper. The Attainders
of 1642 include three Mac Auliffes. Besides this
officer and Daniel Mac Auliffe, a Lieutenant herein,
Teigue Mac Auliffe was a Lieutenant in Colonel
Boger Mc Elligott's Infantry Begiment. The At-
tainders of 1696 contain the names of the above
Dermott, with Denis Mac Auliffe of Lismacoonan,
County of Cork. The last chief of the family died
Colonel of a Begiment in Spain in 1720.

CABTAIN WILLIAM LOMBABD.

This officer is described in the Inquisition for his
attainder as ' William Lumbard, of Cork, merchant.'
The name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Third, chiefly as in Cork and Waterford ;

COLONEL NICHOLAS BliOWNE's INFANTRY. 837

and one of the name, Peter ' Lumbard,' was the Eoman
Catholic Primate of Armagh in the seventeenth cen-
tury, whom a Return of 1626, as to the Irish ecclesias-
tics then residing in foreign parts, states to be
sojourning in the King of Spain's dominions. Peter
Lombard, 1 a merchant's son of Waterford, educated
at Westminster under the learned Camden, and who
afterwards studied at Lovain,' was author of some
divinity works, and of the well-known treatise, ' De
Regno Hibernice, Sanctorum Insula, Commentaries ,'
published at Lovain in 1632* ; a work, the tendency
of which being considered to revive ancient animosi-
ties and excite new disturbances in Ireland, Secretary
Windebank wrote in 1633 to Lord Strafford, the Lord
Lieutenant, to have suppressed. Some notices of it
may be seen in the Anthologia Hibernica, vol. 1.
From the Corporate Records of Waterford it appears
that, from 1377 to 1603, the mayoralty of that city
was on seventeen occasions filled by a Lombard ;
while in Cork John Lombard was Mayor in 1380 and
1389, and James Lombard in 1645.

CAPTAIN EDMUND FERRITER.

This was the name of a family long settled in Kerry,
and conspicuous in the troubles of 1641. Piers
Ferriter was subsequently taken prisoner and exe-

* Ware's Writers, p. 103.

838 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

cuted by the Parliamentary commander, Brigadier
Nelson, at Killarney.*

CAPTAIN DERBY GRADY.

The O'Grady was a Sept located in Clare, and later
in Limerick. In the former county their territory
comprised the present Barony of Lower Tullagh ; in
the latter they possessed Carn-Feradaigh, now the
parish of Knockaney, where, at Kilballyowen, the Sept
is represented by Viscount Guillamore. In the wars
of Thomond was fought, in 1151, the great battle of
Moin-mor (i.e. the great bog, lying between Cork and
the Blackwater), where 9,000 Dalcassians of Clare
were defeated ; and, according to the Book of Lecan,
upwards of 7,000 slain. Amongst the chiefs who fell
was ' Anselis O'Grady, Lord of Hy-Caissin,' with five
others of his Sept. At a more advanced period of the
same long civil feud, (which forms the subject of a
native chronicle), in 1311, Donald O'Grady, Lord of
Kinel-Dungaile, was slain in battle. In 1332, John
4 O'Grada' was Archbishop of Cashel, as was another
John O'Grada of Tuam in 1365, and yet a third,
Bishop of Elphin in 1405. In a list of recommen-
dations, which Tyrconnel by his Majesty's command
forwarded in 1686 to Colonel Russell, the name of
Lieutenant Edmund Grady was inserted, as one to be

* Per Rev. Arthur B. Rowan, Tralee.

COLONEL NICHOLAS BROWNE'S INFANTRY. 839

provided for in some of the Regiments then being
formed.* Three of this name were attainted in 1691.

CAPTAIN AET O'KEEFE.

This ancient Sept of Munster derives its descent from
Art Caemh (the two letters being pronounced in Irish
as 1 f ' or rather as 1 v'), who was himself the son of
Finguine, a King of Munster, whose death in 902 the
Four Masters record, as they do that of Ceallach
O'Caemh in 1063. At 1135, they have a notice of
one of those unfortunate engagements in the County
of Tipperary, which were the evil results of sept-ship,
in which Finguine O'Caemh, ' Lord of Glennamnach,
(Grlanworth in Fermoy Barony) was slain. In 1161,
Hugh O'Keeffe, Tiarnach (Lord) of Fermoy was slain,
During these centuries, and up to the English Inva-
sion, this family was territorially possessed of a wide
district, from their settlement called Pobble O'Keeife,
extending over what have been since denominated the
Baronies of Fermoy, Orrery, Kilmore, and Clongib-
bons. By the native annalists they are sometimes
styled Princes of Fermoy, and were hereditary
Marshals and chief leaders in Desmond. In the
latter capacity, it is recorded that Donogh Mac Kieffe,
Prince of Fermoy, commanded the Irish forces of
Munster in 924 ; and at their head, pursuing the

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 459.

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Danes into Ulster, obtained a signal victory over
them at Dundalk.*

Subsequently to the Invasion, they were narrowed
within a comparatively small tract, extending from
the Blackwater at Mill-street, to near its source,
within which they had castles and estates at Drumsi-
cane, Ductregill, Dromagh, Droumtariff, Cullin,
Ahane, Ballymaquisk, &c. In the autumn of 1582,
the Earl of Desmond made an incursion into Kerry,
with the object of collecting spoils in Pobble O'Keeffe.
O'Keeffe and his neighbours endeavoured to resist the
aggression, but they were overpowered, and O'Keeffe
himself, i.e. Art (Arthur), son of Donal, son of Art,
and his son Art ' Oge,' were taken prisoners, and
Hugh, another of his sons, was slain." The death of
old Art in 1583, and the inauguration of his son Art
the younger (Oge) to the chieftaincy, are also com-
memorated by the Four Masters. In 1610, Sir
Edward Fitz-Gerald, Knight, had a grant of a castle
and lands in the County of Cork, parcel of the estate
of Teigue 0' ' Quiefe' attainted ; two years after
which, Arthur O'Keeffe of Dromagh, in the same
county, passed patent for various castles, lands, tithes,
&c. which were thereupon erected into the manor of
Dromagh, with markets, fairs, courts, and tolls. In
1619, he had a further grant of the manor, castle, and
mill of Dunbullog, with various townlands, the advow-
son of the vicarage, and liberty to impark 200 acres,
to create tenures, hold courts leet and baron, enjoy all

* Smith's History of Cork, vol. 1, p. 44.

COLONEL NICHOLAS BROWNE'S INFANTRY. 841

waifs and strays, &c. The confiscations consequent
upon the Desmond war, and those resulting from the
Civil war of 1641, greatly despoiled this family. The
Attainders on the latter occasion include the names of
four of the Sept. The last parcel of their territory,
containing about 9,000 acres, and still bearing testi-
mony of its ancient proprietary by its designation of
i Pobble O'Keeffe,' remained in the hands of the
Crown, as an undisposed forfeiture, until a very
recent period, when it was sold by the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests.

The Declaration of Royal gratitude for services be-
yond the seas includes Captain Daniel O'Keeffe of
Dromagh, and Captain Arthur O'Keeffe of Glenfriacan,
County of Cork. It may be reasonably presumed
that he was the above Captain Art. There are like-
wise on this Army List, Denis 4 Keefe ' an Ensign,
Keefe and Daniel ' O'Keefe,' Ensigns in Major-General
Boiseleau's Infantry, while another Arthur Keefe was
a Lieutenant in Colonel John Barrett's. The Attain-
ders of 1691 name this Arthur, Manus his brother,
and four others of the family. In 1697, Arthur
0' 'Kyffe,' styling himself late of Dunbollog, County of
Cork, made his will, wherein he bequeathed to his
eldest son and heir Daniel all his manors, lands, &c,
and all and singular their Royalties in tail male, with

similar and successive remainders to his second

son ; Charles O'Keeffe, his third son ; remainder to
Arthur O'Keeffe, Counsellor at law in tail male, with
divers remainders over. This will is witnessed by

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Conor O'Keeffe, Owen < Kyffe,' and Mark Goold. A
very interesting pedigree of this family has been
inspected in aid of this work. It was taken on the
oaths of six members of the Sept in February, 1738,
and, with the Affidavits and certificate, and a corrobo-
rative declaration signed by three of the Munster
Chieftains, the Mac Carthy More, the O'Sullivan
More, and the O'Donovan More, was duly proved
and entered of record in the College of Arms, London.
This pedigree traces the O'Keeffes down to Arthur
O'Keeffe, described as of Lincoln's Inn, and then liv-
ing, and declares him to be ' of the branch and family
thereof,' he being evidently the remainder-man in the
aforesaid will of Arthur of Dunbullog. This Roll of
lineage was accompanied by a Deed founding three
bursarships at the College of Lombard, in the Hue
des Carmes in Paris, for rearing natives of Ireland,
especially those of the name of O'Keeffe, to the priest-
hood. This endowment was perfected by the Right
Reverend Cornelius O'Keeffe, Lord Bishop of Limerick,
then in Paris, and theretofore Rector of the parish of
St. Chronicleu of Nantes. It bears date 9th Septem-
ber, 1734, and therein his Lordship states himself 'of
the family of O'Keeffe of Fermoy, distinguished by
their actions, their alliances, and their estates (which
are mentioned by name); that Denis O'Keeffe, father
of said Bishop, was turned out of his inheritance of
4 Dun' on the river Bride, by the usurper Cromwell ;
that, after many hardships, he at last settled at
Drumkene, in the County of Limerick, where he left

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six sons, Daniel, Dermot, Philip, Donatus, Luke, and
this Cornelius, the Bishop. He then prescribed
rules for the government of these bursarships, and
provided funds for their support. In June, 1743, the
above-mentioned Arthur 0' 1 Kyffe,' describing himself
of Bedford Kow, London, devised all his estates in the
parish of Heathfield, County of Sussex, with the
capital mansion house, park, and woodlands there, to
his wife Isabella O'Kyffe, alias O'Keeffe, for ever,
and appointed her his executrix. He died in 1756,
without issue, and was buried in Westminster Abbey,
where the inscription on his monument records his
lineal descent from the Kings of Ireland. His widow,
said Isabella, died in 1761, directing her body to be
buried near that of her dear husband, in the west
cloisters of that Abbey. She devised Heathfield to
her sister Mary Anne O'Keeffe ; bequeathed a consi-
derable legacy to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Anstis
O'Keeffe ; and appointed her said sister Mary Anne
her executrix, with a singular injunction : after fixing
the place of her interment " as near as possible to her
late dearest husband, Arthur O'Keeffe," she added,
" Put my dear love's letters in a bag under my head
in my coffin, and put mine to him under my feet."
The widow Isabella died in 1762, and her sister
Mary Anne in 1766 sold Heathfield to Lieutenant-
General Eliott, the hero of Gibraltar, who selected it
to give name to his dignity, Lord Heathfield. Mary
Anne shortly after married Cornelius O'Keeffe of
Dublin, barrister-at-law, her first cousin, who died in

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1780 without issue, and these two branches are now
represented by his grand-nephew, Dixon Cornelius
O'Keeffe, of Dublin, barrister.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM HEAS.

This officer was evidently of the Cork family of
O'Hea, whose chief residence was at Aghcinilly Castle,
on a territory called from them Pobble O'Hea. The
name, with the alias of Hay, is on Ortelius's map also
located in Wexford. Of this latter line was Nicholas
Hay, one of the Confederate Catholics at the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny ; on the Attainders of 1691
the only person named is John Hay of Ballytrammon,
County of Wexford.

LIEUTENANT DERMOT KEAGHLEY.

The Sept of the O'Keelys was located in the County
of Kilkenny, whence two, Edmund and William
Kealy of Gowran, were of the Confederate Catho-
lics at Kilkenny ; and Walter ' Keily' was one of the
Representatives of Gowran in the Parliament of
1689 ; Lieutenant Dermot was, however, on the
Inquisition for his outlawry, described as of Knock-
naghshy, County of Cork.

COLONEL SIR MICHAEL CREAGlfS INFANTRY. 845

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

SIR MICHAEL CREAGH'S.

Captains.

The Colonel.

John Power,
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Theobald Bourke,

Major.
Christopher Jans.
Richard Purcell.
Richard Dalton.
Terence M'Dermott.

Christopher Pallas.

Thomas Sutton.

Theobald Butler.

Robert Bellew.

Patrick ' Ffagan.'

Edward Warren.

John Dowd,
Grenad.

Philip Roche.

Lieutenants.

( Thomas Mullen.
I Philip Roche.

Alexis Laplant.

Arthur BryanP

Bartholomew Isaac.

Symon Browne.

Patrick Everard.

Nicholas Bellew.
Oliver Nugent.

Bernard Archbold.
Laurence Tankard.

Denis Bryan.

Peter Browne.

John Croghan.

Bartholomew Hadsor.

C George Plunket.
\ James Russell.

Garrett Nangle.

Ensigns.

Phelim 0' < Neille,

Rowland Eustace.
James Fitz-Morris.
James Ledwich.
Patrick M'Dermott.

John Begg.

Edward Bellew.
George * Kelley. '
Andrew Everard.
Nicholas Carroll.

John Connor.

STAFF OFFICERS.

Charles M'Dermott, Adjutant.
Cornelius Quinnan, Quarter Master.
Robert White, Chirurgeon.

COLONEL SIR MICHAEL CREAGH.

This family is located on Ortelius's map in the
Barony of Small-County, County of Limerick. In

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1459, William Creagh was Bishop of Limerick; and
in 1483, David Creagh was Archbishop of Cashel.
About a century after, Richard Creagh was, by the
Pope's provision, promoted to the Primacy of Armagh ;
all these prelates were natives of Limerick. The
latter, according to Harris, in his notes on Ware's
Writers (p. 97), died in 1585 in the Tower of
London, where he was imprisoned by the Govern-
ment. This Colonel was possessed of much property
in houses in Dublin, of which city he was Lord Mayor
in 1688, and one of its Representatives in the Parlia-
ment of Dublin in the following year. His was one
of the Regiments that, early in the campaign, before
the battle of the Boyne, King James ordered to join
him at the bridge of AfFane. He was attainted in
1691, together with William Creagh, of Ennis, mer-
chant.

CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER JANS.

One of this surname, James Jans, described as of
the Ward, in the County of Dublin, was attainted in
1642. Nothing more has been ascertained of the
family ; Captain Christopher does not appear on the
Inquisitions of 1691.

CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PALLAS.
This officer is stated in his outlawry to have been a

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goldsmith in the City of Dublin, where a branch of
the family had been established from the time of
Queen Elizabeth. An Andrew i Pallace,' described as
of Cloneanat, County of Cavan, was attainted with
him, while the earlier Attainders of 1642 name Wil-
liam ' Pallys' of Dublin, and Andrew Pallys of Collat-
rath, i. e. the aforesaid Cloneanat.

CAPTAIN JOHN DOWD.

The Sept of O'Dowd possessed a wide territory, com-
prising much of the Counties of Mayo and Sligo.
Their annals are so fully displayed in Hardiman's
Hy Fiacra (the name of this territory), that a refer-
ence to his work will best gratify the curious reader.
Here shall it only be stated, that of the Confederate
Catholics assembled at Kilkenny in 1646, were
Edmund O'Dowde of Porterstown, and Thady
O'Dowde of Rosburr ; while the Attainders of 1696
only mention the name of Thady O'Dowde, described
as of Sligo, with Charles Dowd of Grangebeg and
Faghery Dowd of Bally-Faghery.

CAPTAIN PHILIP ROCHE.

This officer, having been decreed the benefit of the
Articles of Limerick, followed his Royal Master to
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there, lie quitted that country, and, after visiting a
great part of the Continent, returned to Ireland ;
where being, as a Roman Catholic, incapacitated from
filling any civil or military employment, he turned
his attention to trade ; and, after much labour and
loss, succeeded in establishing a manufactory of flint
glass at Ballybough. near Dublin.*

LIEUTENANT THOMAS MULLEN.

The O'Mullens were a Leinster Sept, numerous in
the Counties of Dublin, Heath, and Kildare. They
were also known in Ulster as 0' 'Mullan' and Mc
Mullen.

LIEUTENANT LAUEENCE TANKARD.

This name, though of rare occurrence, is yet of record
in Ireland from the time of Edward the First. No-
thing, however, worthy of notice, has been discovered
respecting this individual or his family.

LIEUTENANT JOHN CROGHAN.

Nothixg ascertained of him or his faniilv.

* D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 60.

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LIEUTENANT BARTHOLOMEW HADSOR.

This name is of Irish record from the time of Henry
the Third, when in 1249, the Preceptor of the Hospi-
tal of St. John of Jerusalem made complaint to that
King, that Richard de 4 Haddesore,' Knight, and other
persons of the Dioceses of Armagh, Derry, and Dublin,
had greatly injured the Knights Templars of that estab-
lishment in the enjoyment of certain of their churches,
their tithes, and possessions, and an inquiry was
directed for ascertaining and rectifying his encroach-
ments.* In 1430, William Hadsor was Bishop of
Meath. In 1646, John Hadsor, of Keppock (County
of Louth, where the name was long established), was
one of the Confederate Catholics at the Supreme
Council. This name does not appear on the Attain-
ders of 1691 ; but, at the Court of Chichester House
in 1700, Mary Madden, widow of Robert Hadsor,
claimed and was allowed a dower off lands of this
Bartholomew Hadsor in the County of Dublin ; while
a Bridget Hadsor claimed a jointure off Mayo lands
of Richard Hadsor, but her petition was dismissed for
non-prosecution.

ENSIGN JAMES LEDWICH.

Early after the English invasion, Ledwich was
located in Westmeath, and gave name to a townland

* D'Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 608.

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yet known as Ledwichtown. In the reign of Edward
the First, Adam de Ledwich gave lands in frank-
almoign to the noble establishment of Canons Eegnlar
of St. Augustine, previously founded at Tristernagh
in that county. In 1640, Maurice, son and heir of
Richard Ledwich, had livery of certain estates of his
father at Baskan therein. In two years after, Rich-
ard Ledwich was attainted for the part he had taken
in the civil war of 1641. His namesake, Eichard
'Ledwidge' of Knockmory, was attainted in 1691, as
was the above Ensign James, also spelt ' Ledwidge,'
and described as of Ballynalack, Ballyhaine, and
Killivilla in the same county.

QUARTER-MASTER CORNELIUS QUINAN.

Nothing has been ascertained of this officer, and the
name does not appear on the Attainders.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL SIR HEWARD OXBURGH'S.

Captains.

Lieutenants.

Ensigns.

The Colonel.

William Duigin.

Hugh Kelly.

Edward Scott,

Hugh Flaherty.

Walter Peechell.

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Laurence ' Dulhunty,'

Major.

Anthony Carroll.

James Carroll.

William ' Dulahunty.'

Denis ' Dulahunty.'

Patrick Dulahunty.

Edmund Daly.

Daniel ' Dulany.'

Bryan Shanly.

Francis Say.

Ignatius Archer.

Hugh Molloy.

John Coghlan.

Roger M'Manus.

Patrick M'Manus,

Constance O'Connor.

Charles O'Connor.

Henry Oxhurgh.

John Madden.

Philip Ash.

Myles O'Carroll.

Philip Meagher.

John Dwyer.

Alexander Callanan.

John Callanane.

Hugh Madden.

Florence Callanane.

Edmund Mooney.

Francis Mooney.

Edmund Coghlan.

Thomas Dowling.

Owen Dowling.

Bryan Kelly.

COLONEL HEWARD OXBURGH.

The family of Oxburgh were possessed of Bovin, and
other lands in the Barony of Ballybritt, King's
County, at the time of the civil war of 1641, a Hew-
ard Oxburgh being then the possessor ; most probably
father of this Colonel, who was himself Sheriff of that
county in 1687, and was one of those who repre-
sented it in the Parliament of 1689 ; as did Heward
Oxburgh, junior, the borough of Philipstown. His

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relatives, John and Richard Oxburgh, were, the for-
mer, a Captain in Colonel Henry Lnttrell's Horse,
and the latter a Lieutenant in Lord Galmoy's. One
of these officers was wounded in 1689, at the Siege
of Deny. By a Eoyal mandate of the 12th July, in
that year, Colonel Heward Oxburgh, Owen Carroll,
Esq. Captain John Dunn, Captain Andrew Kelly,
Pierce Bryan, Esq. and Thady Fitz-Patrick were con-
stituted Provosts Marshal of the King's and Queen's
Counties ; with powers to proceed according to the
course of martial law against robbers, thieves, and
Tories, with whom, as stated, these counties were in-
fested.* Similar Commissions were at the same time
given to John Nugent, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas
Nugent, and Martin Hore, for the County of Water-
ford ; and to Edmund Nugent, James Nugent, Con
Geoghegan, and Henry Mayley, for that of West-
meath. After the battle of Aughrim and before the
surrender of Limerick, on the 9th of August, 1691,
" Lieutenant Colonel Oxburgh," writes Story ,f "with
a Lieutenant, their servants and accoutrements, came
over to us from the enemy, as also did another officer
and eleven musqueteers, with their arms." The At-
tainders of 1691 name Heward, Henry, John, Kichard,
James, and Heward junior, Oxburgh, all described as
of Bovin in the King's County. The claims preferred
at Chichester House as affecting the estate of Colonel
Heward, and which were allowed, were by Clare Ox-

* Harris's MSS. in Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 134.
f Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 103.

COLONEL SIR HE WARD OXBURGH'S INFANTRY. 853

burgh as his widow, for a small jointure, and by
Henry Oxburgh for a remainder in tail therein. The
name is to be found in the County of Westmeath at
the townland of Clondeliever, where a tradition is
preserved that the above Henry, the tenant in tail of
Bovin, succeeded to its possession (which may have
resulted from his father's submission as above), but
that, after a short enjoyment, he emigrated to Spain,
where he died Governor of Carthagena.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWARD SCOTT.

This Officer had served King Charles beyond seas du-
ring his exile. Pending the siege of Derry, he with
a detachment of Horse and Foot, was left by Briga-
dier Sutherland, with the object of securing his retreat
to Omagh, in the church and graveyard of Belturbet,
which were slightly fortified ; but this small force was
soon compelled to surrender to the Enniskilleners.*
This officer was soon after distinguished by his de-
fence of Kinsale, which he maintained for twenty
days against the assaults of Churchill, afterwards the
great Duke of Marlborough. " He hoped in vain to
be relieved by the Duke of Berwick ; but at length,
when he saw no likelihood of succour, and that the
walls were all battered about his ears, more than two
parts of the garrison having been cut off, he surren-
dered the place upon very honourable conditions (his

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, pp. 267-8.

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lady riding out in her coach upon the breach), and
himself came to Limerick to give the Duke an
account of his defence of the town.*" " The garri-
son, being about 1,200 men, had liberty to march out
with their arms and baggage, having a party assigned
to conduct them to Limerick, "f He was attainted
in 1691, as Edward Scott of Dublin and Kinsale,
Knight ; while another Edward, and a Francis Scott,
described as of Easky, County of Sligo, were then also
outlawed.

MAJOR LAURENCE DULHUNTY.

In Lord Galmoy's Horse, Anthony Dulhunty was a
Cornet, and another Laurence Dulhunty was a Lieu-
tenant in Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons. A Lieutenant
Patrick ' Dallachanty' was one of the officers thanked
in the Act of Settlement for services beyond the seas.

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER CALLANAN.

The O'Callanans, located in the County of Galway,
are mentioned by O'Flaherty as hereditary physi-
cians. On the Attainders of 1696, stands alone

Callanan of Cloonbeggan.

* O'Callaghan's Mac. ExcicL, pp. 82-3, f Idem, p. 395.

COLONEL SIR HEWARD OXBURGH's INFANTRY. 855

CAPTAIN EDWARD MOONEY.
The O'Mooneys were a Sept of the Queen's County.

CAPTAIN THOMAS DOWLING.

The O'Dowlings are also mentioned as a Sept of the
Queen's County. They were, however, located in
other counties, as shown by the Inquisitions on at-
tainders. Those of 1642 have three of the name ;
those of 1691 have Daniel Dowling of Inishman,
County , of Cork (who was an Ensign in Colonel
Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry), and William Dow-
ling of Kilkenny.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM DUIGIN.

The O'Duigins were an ancient Sept of the County
of Clare, Lords of Muinter-Conlochtaidh, a district in
the Barony of Tullagh. The Attainders of 1691 name
Matthew 4 Dwigin' of Dunamase, Queen's County ;
John ' Dwigin' of Bally duff, King's County ; and
William 1 Dwigin' of Palace, clerk. Notwithstanding
the ecclesiastical description of this latter individual,
he would seem to be identical with the above Lieu-
tenant.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

LIEUTENANT DANIEL < DULLANY.'

The O'Delanys are on Ortelius's map spread over the
Barony of Ballybritt, King's County. They were also
in the Barony of Upper Ossory in the Queen's, and
likewise in Kilkenny. Felix O'Dullany succeeded to
the See of Ossory in 1178. A ' Captain William
Dullany' is included in the declaration of Eoyal gra-
titude (1662), but nothing has been ascertained
worthy of notice concerning this Daniel

LIEUTENANT IGNATIUS ARCHER.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Third, and is more especially found in the
County of Kilkenny. Patrick and Walter Archer of
that county were Members of the Supreme Council
that met in their city. The Attainders of 1691
include six of this name.

ENSIGN WALTER PEECHELL.
Nothing known of him or his family at this period.

ENSIGN PHILIP ASH.
This name is of record in Ireland from the reign of

COLONEL DOMINICK BROWNE'S INFANTRY. 857

Edward the Third, and members of it were attainted
in 1641 and 1691 ; but nothing has been ascertained
of Ensign Philip or his family.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL DOMINICK BROWNE S.

Captains.
The Colonel.

Lieutenants.
Henry Browne.

Ensigns.
John Bodkin.

Lieutenant-Colonel.
Le Sr. Montgouge,

Major.

Peter ' Linch.'

Matthew French.

Francis Martin.

Dermot Connor.

Andrew ' Nowland.'

Andrew ' Atye.'

Chris topher ' Ffrench . '

Farragh O'Donnell,
Grenad.

Andrew Browne,

2nd Captain.

Valentine 1 Blacke.'

Dominick Lynch.

Andrew Browne.

Malachy O'Connor.

Matthew Lynch.

William Bourke.

John Hara.

( Hugh O'Donnell.
I Korie O'Donnell.

Philip Morris.
Patrick ' Ffrench.'
Thomas Lynch.
Turlough O'Connor.
William Skerritt.
Thomas 'Atye.'
Dominick French.

COLONEL DOMINICK BROWNE.

Dominick Fitz- William Browne of Barna, who was
Mayor of Galway in 1575, and an executing party to
Perrot's Composition of 1585, was the common
ancestor of Colonel Dominick Browne, and of the

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family of Clonkely and Moyne. Geoffrey Browne, his
eldest son, father of this Colonel Dominick, had been
the deputed Envoy from the Confederate Catholics of
the Supreme Council in 1647 to Queen Henrietta,
and afterwards in 1650 to the Duke of Lorraine.
The confiscations of Cromwell's time swept off much
of this G-eoffrey's estate ; yet, still unshaken in adhe-
rence to the Stuart Dynasty, he sent to the service of
James not only the above Dominick, but likewise
another son Stephen, both of whom were engaged at
the battle of Aughrim. King James's Charter to
Galway in 1687 placed seven of the name of Browne
upon the Burgess Eoll.

Here, in the more strict adherence to King James's
Army List, the illustrations of the name of 4 Browne'
might close, but there is one who does not appear
upon it, yet was he deeply associated with the cam-
paign.— Colonel John Browne of the Neale ; of him,
however, can it only be stated that he commanded in
the besieged towns of Galway and Limerick, and was
an executing party to the Articles for the surrender
of the latter, in the drawing up of which he assisted.

CAPTAINS MATTHEW AND CHRISTOPHER
FRENCH.

This noble family, under the Norman orthography of
Freyne, de la Freigne, &c, appears on Battle Roll
amongst the warriors that came over with the Con-

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queror to England. The early survey of the Knights'
Fees in certain counties there, in the time of Henry the
Third, finds Thomas, Hugh, and Walter de Freigne
then extensive proprietors in Herefordshire, where, as
in other parts of the island, this surname was altered
to Frensh or French. Gilbert, Earl of Glouceste ,
having married one of the five daughters of William,
the great Earl Marshal of Ireland, acquired, on the
partition of his vast estates, the whole County of Kil-
kenny as his Lady's portion, which he transmitted to
his grandson, another Gilbert ; who, marrying the
daughter of King Edward the First, became the most
powerful of English Barons, while he regarded with
great care and favour his Irish inheritance. This Earl,
during the high commissions with which he was en-
trusted, in resisting the encroachments of the Welsh,
or rather perhaps in maintaining those of the English
on them, selected Fulco de Freyne of the Hereford-
shire House to be his Seneschal of Kilkenny, that
office being then considered of the highest trust and
consequence. His son, another Fulco, styled the
younger, and Oliver de la Freyne were, in 1335,
summoned as Magnates of Ireland, to serve the King's
wars in Scotland, and were present at the battle of
Hallidown. In the Roll of Noblemen and Knights
who were with King Edward at the siege of Calais in
1346, appears the name of 'Fulco de la Fraign,
Hibernicus quasi BaroJ having (as the entry seems
to denote) under his command one Banneret, one
Knight, eighteen ' armigeri,' and fourteen hobillers, in

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all thirty-four. From his son Eobert de la Freyne
lineally descended the Frenches and Ffrenches of
Connaught. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny
sat the celebrated Nicholas French, the Boman Ca-
tholic Bishop of Ferns, as a Spiritual Peer ; while
in the Commons were Christopher and James French,
both described as of Galway. The Declaration of Royal
thanks in the Act of Settlement includes Anthony
French, Judge Advocate. Captain Matthew appears
to have been of the house of Colemanstown ; while
John, of that of Bahassan, was an Ensign in the Earl
of Clanricarde's Infantry, wherein Marcus French
was a Lieutenant. The latter had risen to rank as
Captain at the battle of Aughrim, after which he sur-
rendered himself to De Ginkle.* Christopher was
also a Captain in this Begiment. On King James's
new Charter to Galway, eleven of this name were ap-
pointed Burgesses, and in the Parliament of 1689
James French sat as one of the Eepresentatives of the
Borough of Sligo. The Attainders of 1691 have five
of this name.

CAPTAIN FEANCIS MARTIN.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Second. In 1585, Sir Murrough Dhu
O'Fflahertie, the first of that family who consented to
hold his estates by English tenure, was proceeded

* O'Callaghan's Mac. Excid., p. 462.

COLONEL DOMINICK BROWNE'S INFANTRY. 861

against for violating the provisions of a penal statute
of Henry the Seventh, by retaining in his service at
Kilmainham, "William Martin and three other mer-
chants of Galway, to whom he gave four several cloaks
for their livery, to serve him in form 1 stipendiarorum/
anglice 'reteyners,' and not otherwise.* In 1625,
Anthony Martin succeeded to the See of Waterford.
In 1642, preparatory to the forming the Council at
Kilkenny, Richard Martin was selected as one of the
Committee for shaping the plan of their government ;
while another Anthony Martin, described as of
Galway, appears on the List of Confederates. In
1687, Peter Martin was appointed a Justice of the
Common Pleas, while King James's Charter to Gal-
way placed six of this name on the Burgess Roll.
Besides Captain Francis Martin in this Eegiment,
another Francis was Lieutenant in Colonel Henry
Dillon's, as was Dominick Martin in Lord Galway's.
In the Parliament of 1689, Oliver Martin was one of
the Representatives for the town of Galway ; he was
afterwards attainted, but claimed the benefit of the
Articles of Limerick and Galway. Six others of the
name were then also outlawed.

CAPTAIN ANDREW NOWLAND.

The O'Nolans were a Sept of the highest antiquity,
especially in the County of Carlow, where they gave

* Court Roll of Eliz.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

name to the district of Fothart-O'Nolan, within which,
immediately after the English Invasion, Hugh de
Lacy erected one of those castles which his provident
care designed to sentinel the Pale. A very interest-
ing memoir of the Sept, with their armorial, is
appended to the third volume of Sir Bernard Burke's
Visitation of Seats and Arms. The native Annals
commemorate their achievements from the earliest in-
troduction of surnames, and a succession of recorded
Inquisitions testifies the extent of their territory. In
1605, Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight and Privy Coun-
cillor, had a grant from the Crown of a great many
townlands in Fothart-O'Nolan, including Ballykealy,
Kilbride, Bally trasney, with its old castle, &c,
described as theretofore the estates of several O'Nolans,
4 slain in rebellion,' 4 attainted,' or 4 dead in rebellion.'
The Attainders of 1642 name but John Nolan of
Kilcool, County of Kildare, and Nicholas Nolan of
Ratheny, County of Dublin. John Nolan, merchant,
had in 1687 a lease of the rectory and tithes of Jer-
point in the County of Kilkenny, and was in the
same year named an Alderman in King James's new
Charter to that town. On the Attainders of 1691
the name of the above officer does not appear, but
only those of James and Laurence Nolan of Shan-
garry, County of Carlow ; Michael of Kilkea, County
of Kildare ; Thaddeus of Knockanaltan and Martin of
Ballyesken, County of Waterford, with Joseph Nolan
of Drum, County of Galway. At Chichester House,
John Nowlan claimed and was allowed an estate for

COLONEL DOMINICK BROWNE'S INFANTRY. 863

lives in the lands of Shangarry and Ballinrush, as
forfeited by Laurence Nolan ; while a Thomas Nolan
sought, as son and heir of Ellen, daughter of Jasper
Kirwan, and wife of Joseph Nolan, an estate in fee in
County of Galway lands forfeited by said Joseph, but
her petition was dismissed on non-prosecution.

CAPTAIN ANDREW 'ATYE.'

The name of 4 De Athy' is of record in Ireland from
the reign of Edward the Second. In 1325, John de
Athy was Constable of the Castle of Carrickfergus.
Edward the Third appointed him Admiral of the fleet
of all the ships in every harbour and place of Ireland.
King Richard the Second in 1385 constituted Wil-
liam de Athy, Treasurer of Connaught. The name
does not appear on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691.

ENSIGN WILLIAM SKERRETT.

This William Skerrett, it would appear, had a saving
of his right in certain Galway lands inserted in a
patent thereof to Sir Henry Lynch and Ellen his wife,
in the year 1678 ; nothing more has been ascertained
of this officer, but the family is to this day of tenure
and respectability, more particularly in the County of
Clare, where it is represented by William Joseph
Skerrett ofFinavara House.

864

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL OWEN MAC CARTIE'S.

This Eegiment is wholly unfilled on the present List,
but the Appendix to King's State of the Protestants
gives James de Puy as Lieutenant-Colonel, and
Terence O'Brien as Major therein.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT'S.

Captains.
The Colonel.
Donogh O'Callaghane.
Lieut -Colonel.

Lieutenants.
John Elliott.
Miles Magrath.

Ensigns.
David Roche.
John ' Callahane.'

Major.
Edmund Butler.
David ' Cooshene.'
Redmund Barry.
Thomas Barry.
Francis Fytton.
Philip Boche.
John Barrett.
William Sheehan.
Dominick Meade.
George Henessy.
John • Koch,'

John Gafney.

Thomas Barry.

Owen Macarty.

John Barry.

Gibbon Fitz-Gerald.

Ulick Boche.

Edmund Condon.

John Heaphy.

Arthur ' Keefe. '

Nicholas Magrath.

( David Nagle.
\ Godfrey Sweeny.

Philip Donovan.
Richard Coshine.
Richard Barry.
James Boche.

Thomas O'Donnell.

Thomas Carey.
Edmund Barrett.

William Barry.
Patrick Phelan.

James Gold.

Grenad.

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT'S INFANTRY.

865

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT.

This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
Edward the Second. In 1302, John 1 Baret' was one
of the 4 Fideles' invited to assist him in the wars of
Scotland ; the family was most inflnentially establish-
ed in the County of Cork. In the Parliamentary
Representation from Ireland, that sat at Westminster
in 1376, Bernard Barrett was one of the Repre-
sentatives of Yonghal. Barrets were also strongly
settled in Mayo from the thirteenth century, and the
name is, early in the fifteenth, traced in Kildare. In
1 643, sixteen of this name were attainted.

The above Colonel was of the Cork Barrets, and in
the Parliament of 1689 sat as one of the Representa-
tives of the Borough of Moyallow. His Regiment
seems to have been all collected from families of that
County ; but it was, as appears from contemporaneous
authority, disbanded a fortnight before the battle
of the Boyne ; at which time, it is stated, were also
disbanded Colonel Uriel Ferrari's, Colonel B agnail's,
Lord Tyrone's, Donogh O'Brien's, Lord Iveagh's, Mac
Cartie Reagh's, Lord Kilmallock's, Dominick Browne's,
and Lord Mountcashel's ;* some of these were, how-
ever, of the force sent to France in exchange for
French Regiments, and others were incorporated in
different existing bodies of this service. A Captain
Barret was taken prisoner at the siege of Limerick.
The Attainders of 1691 include this officer, described

* Pamphlets in Thorpe's Tracts, folio. Dub. Soc.

Kkh.

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as John Barrett of Dublin, Esq., as also of Castle-
more, County of Cork, with twelve others in the last
mentioned county. At Chichester House, John
Barret claimed and was allowed a long term of years
subsisting in certain estates of this Colonel. The fee
thereof was subsequently granted partly to Sir John
Meade of Ballintober, Knight, and to Sir Matthew
Deane, Knight, both of whom were creditors of the
Colonel to a large amount. The Hollow Swords'
Blades Company likewise purchased some of his pro-
perty.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DONOGH
O'CALLAGHAN.

This noble Irish Sept was partially located in the
Counties of Louth and Mayo, and more especially in
Cork, where the whole tract, comprising the parishes
of Clonmeen and Kilshannick, about 50,000 acres on
both sides of the Blackwater, and hence called Pobble-
O'Callaghan, was occupied by them. The Four Mas-
ters notice the death of Donogh O'Callaghan, heir pre-
sumptive to the Kingdom (Riodamhna) of Cashel in
1053; and in 1121 the decease of Melaghlin O'Callagh-
an, Lord of Hy-Eathra of Munster, the " splendour of
the South of Ireland." In 1594, an Inquisition was
directed to ascertain by mears and bounds the extent
of Pobble-O'Callaghan ; at which time the chief was
Cornelius O'Callaghan, the lineal ancestor of the pre-

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT'S INFANTRY. 867

sent Earl of Lismore. The Sept is considered to have
adopted its name from the well-known Ceallachan-
C ash el, who was King of Munster in the tenth cen-
tury. Their chief residence was at Clonmeen, where
the ruins of their castle are still traceable on a rock
near that river. Thirteen of the name were attainted
in 1643. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in
1646, the Confederate Catholics assumed to fill the
vacant See of Cork with Robert John 4 McCallaghan
but, on the Nuncio's interference, he was not promoted
thereto. Amongst these Confederates sat Callaghan
O'Callaghan of Castle Mac-Auliffe, and Donat O'Cal-
laghan of Clonmeen. TheEoyal declaration of 1662
included, in its acknowledgment of thanks for services
beyond the seas, Donogh O'Callaghan of Clonmeen ;
and by the Act of Settlement, in which that declara-
tion is embodied, he was restored to his estate. He
appears to have been the above Lieutenant-Colonel,
and to have commanded an independent Troop of 60
men after the before-mentioned disbanding of Colonel
John Barret's Regiment.

Besides Lieutenant-Colonel Donogh and John Cal-
laghan, an Ensign in this Regiment, the name appears
commissioned in the Infantry Regiments of Sir Valen-
tine Browne, Sir Charles O'Bryan, Lord Mountcashel,
and Lord Galway. On the 29th of October, 1690,
Lord Barrymore wrote to the Duke of Wirtemberg :
" I have within these two days received a very humble
petition on behalf of Colonel McDonogh, Chief of the
country called 4 Dunhallow," between Mallow and the

kkk 2

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County of Kerry, and of another Chieftain of a coun-
try called O'Callaghan, in order to obtain the protec-
tion of their Majesties. It is of very great consequence
to draw over people of their quality and interest, who
will bring with them a thousand men and at least
seven or eight thousand cows."* The Attainders of
1691 include the above Donogh O'Callaghan, with
nine others of the name. In the Spanish war of 1710,
Colonel O'Callaghan, ' of the Kegiment of Milan,'
greatly distinguished himself, and received several
sabre wounds.f

CAPTAIN DAVID COOSHENE.

This name, with varied spelling, is of record in Ire-
land since the time of Edward the Second. The
family was early settled in the County of Cork,
of which branch Captain David was a member,
being described in the Inquisition for his attainder
as of Farrahy, County of Cork. Garret 4 Cushen,' of
the same place, was then likewise attainted, as was
Richard Cushen of Cushenstown, County of West-
meath.

CAPTAIN FRANCIS FYTTON.
In 1608, Edward Fytton, of Gawsworth in Cheshire,

* Clarke's Corresp. MS. T. C. Dublin, letter 205.
f O'Conor's Milit. Mem., p. 354.

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT'S INFANTRY. 869

son of Sir Edward Fytton, Knight, deceased (who had
been theretofore, in the time of Elizabeth, Lord Pre-
sident of Connanght and Treasurer of Ireland),
surrendered to the Crown certain lands in Ireland,
which had been granted to his said father in 1587,
with the object of obtaining a re-grant thereof. Sir
Edward had for his second son, Alexander, who was
the father of William; and the eldest son of this
William was the Eight Honorable Alexander Fytton,
Knight, Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the time of
King James. He came over to this country with
Tyrconnel in February, 1686 ; was created Chancellor
in the following year ; ennobled by the title of Baron
Gawsworth, to him and his heirs male for ever ; and
sat in the House of Peers at the Parliament of 1689.
He had married the Lady Anne (daughter of Thomas
Jolliffe of Worcestershire), who died in October, 1687,
and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,
under the monument of her husband's ancestor, the
aforesaid Sir Edward Fytton, there erected.* The
Chancellor was attainted in 1691; and there can be no
doubt that the above Captain was of this family. The
Privy Councillors of James, while at the Castle of
Dublin, were, this

Sir Alexander Fytton, Lord Chancellor ;

Thomas Nugent, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench ;

John Keating, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ;

Sir William Ellis, Secretary of State ;

Bruno Talbot, Esq., Chancellor of the Exchequer ;

Sir Stephen Rice, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer ;

* Funeral Entry in Berm. Tur.

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Earl of Tyrconnel,
Earl of Limerick,
Earl of Barrymore,
Adam Loffcus, Esq.
Lemuel Kingdon, Esq.
Sir Paul Rycaut,
Nicholas Purcel, Esq.
Earl of Clanricard,
Earl of Antrim,
Justin McCarty, Esq.
Lord Viscount Gormanston,
Lord Viscount Rosse,
Earl of Tyrone,
Lord Netterville,
Lord Louth,
Sir William Talbot.

Thomas Hamilton, Esq.
Lord Viscount Ikerrin,
Lord Viscount Galmoy,
Mr. Justice Daly,
Richard Hamilton, Esq.
Sir William Wentworth,
Anthony Hamilton, Esq.
Thomas Sheridan, Esq.
Simon Luttrell, Esq.
Fitz-Gerald Villers, Esq.
Colonel Garret Moore,
Lord Bellew,
Charles White, Esq.
Colonel Cormuck O'Neill,
Francis Plowden, Esq.*

CAPTAIN WILLIAM SHEEHAN.

The O'Sheehans were a Sept in Cork and Limerick,
and this Captain is described in his attainder as of
Rathcumaine in the former county.

CAPTAIN DOMINICK MEADE.

This officer appears to have been a son of Sir John
Meade, (who, dying in 1626, was buried at Kilmal-
lock), by Katherine, daughter of Sir Dominick Sars-
field. He is not mentioned in the attainders of 1691,

* Memoirs of Ireland, pub. 1716, pp. 61-2.

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT S INFANTRY.

871

but only Robert and Thomas Meade, alias Myagh, of
Kinsale, and John Meade of Knoeknamihill, County
of Wicklow.

CAPTAIN GEORGE HENESSY.

The O'Henessys were Chiefs of Clan-Colgan, in the
King's County, and of the territory that is now styled
the Barony of Moygoish, County of Westmeath. In
1480, Nicholas O'Henesa'was Bishop of Waterford
and Lismore. In 1646, Charles Henessy of Cutergyn
was one of the Confederate Catholics. The immediate
family of Captain George has not been ascertained.

LIEUTENANT JOHN GAFNEY.

See of this family ante, at Captain George Gafney, in
Colonel Edward Butler's Infantry.

LIEUTENANT JOHN HEAPHY.

Nothing has been learned concerning this officer or
his family.

ENSIGN THOMAS CARY.
The Four Masters record the Sept of 1 O'Carey' as

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Lords of Carbury, in the' County of Kildare, from
a very early period of native history. Sir George
Cary, of Cockington in Devonshire, was one of the
assistant council to the Lord President of Munster in
1599, and he was immediately after appointed Lord
Treasurer of Ireland. Another member of this house
married Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Anne Boleyn,
and was ancestor of the Careys, Lords Hunsdon, and
Earls of Dover, each of which lines gave a Colonel to
King James's service in Ireland. Robert 1 Carey' of
Cork, merchant, is the only one of the name who
appears on the Attainders of 1691, and no evidence
has been found of Ensign Thomas's lineage.

ENSIGN PATRICK PHELAN.

The Sept of the O'Phelans is recorded in the earliest
annals of Ireland. They were styled Princes of
Desies, a territory comprising the greater part of
the present County of Waterford, with a portion of
Tipperary. Malachy O'Phelan was their chief at
the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion, and his
was the principal native force that, in co-operation
with the Danes of Waterford, sought, but unsuccess-
fully, to hold that city against the new comers.
Malachy was taken prisoner, and condemned to die,
but his life was spared on the intercession of Dermod
McMurrough, who had on that clay come down from
Ferns to celebrate the marriage of his daughter with

COLONEL JOHN BARRETT'S INFANTRY. 873

' Strongbow.' This Sept having been afterwards
expelled from their old homes, some, after a short
sojourn in Western Meath, crossed the Shannon into
Connaught, where they spelt the name OTallon ; and
a district in Eoscommon was known as OTal-
lon's country. At the time of this campaign, (1689)
James Phelan was the Roman Catholic Bishop of
Ossory. On the Attainders of 1691 the name of
Patrick Phelan does not appear, but only those of
Hugo Mac Phelan and Shane Mac Phelan (Kiltagh),
both described as of the County of Donegal.

874

KING JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL CHARLES 0 BRYAN S.

Captains.
The Colonel.

Lieutenant-Colonel.
William Saxby,

Major.
Cornelius M'Mahon.

Thomas Magrath.

Dermott O'Callaghan.

Daniel ' Malooney.'

Ignatius Sarsfield.

Morgan Connell.

Donogh 0' Bryan.

Turlogh M'Mahon.

Donogh M'Namara.

John Rice.

Thady M'Namara.

Teigue Ryan.
William Bourke.

Daniel Neiland,
Grenad.

Thomas Fitz- Gerald.

Lieutenants.

Ensigns.

Thomas Barry.
Teigue O'Bryan.
Winter Bridgman.

James ' Malooney.'
William Sheenan.
Edward Barry.
Barnard Sale.
Henry M'Donough.
Donogh M'Namara.
Donogh O'Bryan.
Philip Dwyer.

Nicholas Comyn.

( John Hurley.
\ Dominick White.

Michael ' Scanlon.'

Thomas Bourke.
Theobald Bourke.
Calla O'Callahane.

Stephen Striteh.
Joseph Sarsfield.
Teigue Connell.
Teigue O'Hehir.
Murto M'Mahon.
Thomas Grady.
Patrick White.

Lewis Ryan.

COLONEL CHARLES O'BRYAN.

This officer was the younger son of Daniel O'Bryan,
Lord Clare, at whose Regiment a memoir of this name
is given. The title subsequently devolved upon this
Charles, on the death of his elder brother Daniel at
Pignerol in 1693. This Colonel commanded a Cavalry
Regiment at the second siege of Limerick.

COLONEL CHARLES O'BRYAN'S INFANTRY. 875

MAJOR WILLIAM SAXBY.

It is conjectured that this name should be spelt
4 Saxey.' A William Saxey was, in 1599, Chief
Justice of Munster, and a Justice of the Queen's
Bench ; while a namesake of his, probably his son,
commanded a troop in the war of that period and
province.

CAPTAIN DANIEL MOLONY.

The O'Molonys were Chiefs of Cuiltonan, now known
as the parish of Kiltonconlea in the Barony of Tulla,
County of Clare.

In 1646, John O'Molony was the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Killaloe, in which rank he sat as a Spiritual
Peer at the Supreme Council of Kilkenny. He had
taken refuge in France before King James had crossed
over to Ireland, and there he assisted in founding at
Paris a University for the education of the Irish
priesthood. He was attainted in 1696 by the style
of ' Titular Bishop of Killaloe.'

The above officer may be presumed to have been
of the Cuiltonan or Kiltannon Molonys, and his
estates in Clare were, in 1703, sold by the Com-
missioners of the Forfeitures to Thomas St. John, of
Ballymull Castle in the same county.

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CAPTAIN MORGAN CONNELL.

The Sept of O'Cormell was seised of territory in the
Barony of Leitrim, County of Galway, and of Tul-
lagh, County of Clare, but more especially in Hy
Conaill Gabhra, comprising the present Baronies of
Upper and Lower Connello, County of Limerick. In
751, say the Four Masters, died Flan O'Connell, King
of the Hy Falgians. In the tenth century the deaths
of O'Connells, Abbots of Devenish, are commemorated;
and it is singular that in this parish are two town-
lands bearing the respective names of Bally-connell
and Glen-ti-Connell. At the memorable battle of
Clontarf in 1014, the Chief of the O'Connells was one
of the leaders. Early after the English Invasion, the
ancestors of the Earls of Desmond acquired from this
Sept the whole territory of Conelloe in the County of
Limerick, in consideration of other lands assigned to
them in Kerry and Clare.* In Sir Bernard Burke's
Landed Gentry will be found very full accounts of
several chiefs of the O'Connell of Kerry, who were
formerly styled Lords of Ballycarbery in the Barony
of Iveragh. In 1461, Cormac O'Connell was Bishop
of Killalla, as was Thomas O'Connell of Ardagh in
1508 ; and in 1646 Richard Connell was the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Ardfert ; he sat as one of the Spiri-
tual Peers in the Supreme Council of Kilkenny. On
the Attainders of 1642 appear the names of Philip
O'Connell and Charles O'Connell Oge of Knockrobbin,

* Lynch's Feudal Dignities, p. 131.

COLONEL CHARLES O'BRYAN'S INFANTRY. 877

County of Cork. Besides Captain Morgan and Ensign
Teigue Connell in this Regiment, John Connell was a
Lieutenant in the King's own Infantry, and he may
probably have been the Lieutenant-Colonel wounded
at Deny in 1689. A John O'Connell of Aghgore
and Derrynane raised a foot company for this service,
and incorporated it with that of his cousin Colonel
Maurice O'Connell. He is recorded to have signalized
himself at the Siege of Deny, as well as at the Battles
of the Boyne and Aughrim ; when, returning to Lime-
rick with his shattered regiment, he was included in
the benefit of the Articles for its capitulation.* He
was the lineal ancestor of the illustrious Daniel, and
his Regiment, after the Battle of the Boyne, was active-
ly engaged in Munster, while Maurice O'Connell was
placed in command of the King's Guards. Charles
O'Connell of Braintree in the County of Clare,
brother of Maurice, was a Colonel of Dragoons in
this Campaign ; while a second Maurice O'Connell,
cousin-german to the former, was appointed Lieuten-
ant-Colonel in Lord Slane's Infantry after the forming
of the present Army List. He was killed at Aughrim.
On the Attainders of 1691 appear seven of this name.
After the unsuccessful campaign of 1690-1, many of
the O'Connells entered the Irish Brigade in the ser-
vice of France, and were not less distinguished in that
of Austria. Daniel O'Connell, the grandson of the
before-mentioned Colonel John O'Connell of Aghgore
and Derrynane, born in 1743, entered into Lord

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 947.

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

Clare's Brigade in 1757, where he early signalized
the name ; was present at the capture of Port Mahon
in 1779, and was severely wounded at the grand
attack on Gibraltar in 1782. On the decapitation of
Louis XVI., the Regiment of which Daniel had there-
tofore the command, hence styled O'Connell's, was
disbanded ; whereupon he passed over to England, and
was appointed in 1798 Colonel of the 6th Irish
Brigade, which command he retained until that corps
was also disbanded. In 1814, on the restoration of
the Bourbon Dynasty, he was restored to his military
rank of a General and Colonel-Commandant of the
Regiment of Salm-Salm, and named Grand Cross of
the order of St. Louis. He died in July, 1833, aged
ninety, at his chateau near Blois on the Loire, holding
the rank of General in the French and the oldest
Colonel in the English service.

CAPTAIN TEIGUE RYAN.

The O'Ryans were Lords of Idrone in the County of
Carlo w, and were also extended in that of Tipperary,
the name being not unfrequently styled O'Mulryan.
When Raymond le Gros, the avant-courier of Strong-
bow, landed at Bagganbun on the 1st of May, 1170,
he proceeded with his forces to make himself master of
Waterford, which stood within a few miles of his place
of debarkation. The Danes, however, and the Irish
of the city joined in sallying out to oppose his ad-

COLONEL CHARLES O'BRYAN'S INFANTRY. 879

vance, when a severe conflict took place, in which,
amongst others, O'Ryan, Prince of Idrone, was slain.

In 1452, James, Earl of Ormonde, demolished the

Castle of Connor O'Mulryan, at Owney in the County
of Tipperary. In Perrot's Parliament of 1585, this
powerful clan was represented by Conor, son of Wil-
liam (Carrach) son of Dermod O'Mulrian, Lord of
Uaithne O'Mulryan, i. e. the Baronies of Owney and
Owney beg in the Counties of Tipperary and Limerick.
A manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iii. 27)
gives links of the pedigree of the O'Ryans or O'Mul-
ryans of Solloghode, County of Tipperary, for seven
generations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
William Ryan of this family surrendered to the King
in 1610 various priories, churches, castles, stone
houses, towns, lands and chiefries ; and all his rights
of or in the Barony of Owney-O-Mulrian ; whereupon
he received back a re-grant thereof to hold in capite
by knight's service. Other estates in the County of
Kilkenny, of members of this Sept who were attainted,
were granted in 1617 to Sir James Ware of Dublin ;
and yet more in the following year to Francis Edge-
worth, assignee of Sir John Eyres, Knight. Robert
Ryan of Kilcullen Bridge was attainted in 1642,
while Thomas O'Ryan of Doone was a member of the
Supreme Council. Besides the above Captain Teigue
and Ensign Lewis in this Regiment, the name appears
in three others of this List. The declaration of Royal
Thanks in 1662 includes two of this name, Edmund
O'Mulrian of 'Dulishe Murrian,' and Dermot O'Mur-

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

rian, both of the County of Tipperary. A few weeks
before the Capitulation of Limerick, a Lieutenant
Colonel O'Byan was taken prisoner in a skirmish with
Brigadier Levison's party.* Four of the name were
attainted in 1696, with Captain Teigue, whose confis-
cated estates in the County of Clare were purchased
by John Ivers of Mount Ivers, John Cusack of Kil-
kisheen in said county, and by Hector Vaughan of
Knocknemail, King's County.

Lieutenant James Eyan, in Clare's Brigade, was
wounded at Lauffield in 1747; after which Luke
Byan, a native of Bush near Dublin, some time in
Dillon's Begiment at Dunkirk, was subsequently much
celebrated in the American war as commander of the
Black Brince privateer, under commission of the
French government. This bold adventurer was tried
as a pirate at the Old Bailey in 1782 ; and then, and
on three subsequent occasions, ordered for execution,
but reprieved. On the conclusion of peace he ob-
tained his liberty through the mediation of the Court
of Versailles, and expected to enjoy the hard-earned
fruits of his daring and reckless exploits— a fortune
of £70,000, which he had lodged in a mercantile
house at Boscoif in Brettany ; but his crafty bankers,
taking advantage, it is said, of his legal incapacity to
sue, applied that large sum to their own use, and the
wild career of this bold seaman terminated in the
King's Bench prison, where he died in 1789.f

* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 209.
f Brewer's Beauties of Ireland, v. 1, p. 257.

COLONEL CHARLES o'BRYAN's INFANTRY. 881

CAPTAIN DANIEL NEILAND.

In reference to this name it can only be stated, that
his namesake Daniel ' Neylan' was Bishop of Kildare
in 1583 ; while, in Lord Clare's Dragoons, William
' Naylan' was a Cornet, and James 4 Neylan' a Quarter
Master.

LIEUTENANT WINTER BRIDGMAN.

A grant of lands in Clare in 1670 to Cornelius
Clanchy contained a saving of the right of Henry
Bridgman to a mortgage thereon, and the patent pre-
scribed that certain parcels, thereby conveyed, should
be called for ever Castle Bridgman, and other parcels
Bridgmanstowne. In 1747, Harry Bridgman, a Lieu-
tenant in Clare's Brigade, was killed at Lauffield.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM SHEENAN.

The Sept of O'Shanahan, from which this surname
seems anglicised, possessed the territory of Rath-
moyne, between Cashel and Templemore. In 1642,
William Shynan, styled of Moshaneglass, County of
Cork, and possibly the grandfather of the above Lieu-
tenant, was attainted ; while in twenty years after,
Dermot O'Shinan, of the County of Limerick, received^
in the Act of Settlement, Royal thanks for services

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beyond sea. The attainder of this officer describes
him as of Kilbolane, County of Cork.

LIEUTENANT BERNARD SALE.

The name of ' Sale' and £ Salle' is of record in Ireland
from the time of Edward the Second, but nothing has
been ascertained of this officer or his family.

LIEUTENANT NICHOLAS COMYN.

This name is also of record in Ireland from Edward
the Second. On Ortelius's map, the family is located
in the Barony of Small-County, Limerick.

In 1181, John Comyn, a native of England, was,
on the recommendation of Henry the Second, elected
Archbishop of Dublin. " When that monarch could
no longer keep this see vacant and absorb its revenues,
he resolved that a dignity of so much influence and
value should not be entrusted to an Irishman ; enter-
taining some apprehensions, perhaps justifiable at
the crisis, that a native might consummate with more
hostility those political objects which his predecessor,
Archbishop Laurence O'Toole, laboured to effect in
peace."*

In 1325, William ' Comyn ' had a treasury order
for seventy pounds, on account of his expenses in

* D' Alton's Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, p. 68.

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the marches of Leinster, exploring the passes of the
Irish of the mountains, and doing service to the state ;
as well as by slaying Moriertagh, son of Hugh Oge
OToole, and taking prisoners sundry others of the
mountain Septs, and delivering them into the Castle
of Dublin. * He was afterwards knighted, and had a
grant of lands within the manor of Balgriffyn, near
Dublin. In 1356, he was appointed Captain of the
Ward at Tallaght, a very important post of trust in
the existing state of the Pale : in the same year
he was Sheriff and Escheator of Dublin. In 1382,
Humphrey Comyn was Sheriff of the Crosses of the
County of Tipperary. In 1390, Jordan Comyn was
one of two influential proprietors appointed to
assess and collect a state subsidy off the Barony of
Moygoish, County of Meath (afterwards Westmeath),
as was John Comyn to a like duty in the Baronies of
Delvin, Mullingar, and Ferbill. In 1418, Thomas
Comyn was Mayor of Limerick, and about the same
time Elizabeth Comyn was seized of the manor and
lordship of Bannow, County of Wexford. George
Comyn of Limerick was one of the Confederates at the
Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646. Besides this
Lieutenant, a William Comyn was one of the Ensigns
in Colonel Butler's Infantry ; yet neither of these
names appears attainted in 1691, but only James
' Coman ' of Kilcrea. At the sale of the Forfeited
Estates in 1703, John Cusack of Kilkiseene, County

* Rot. Glaus., 18 Edw. 2 Cane. Hib.

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of Clare, purchased an estate in that county, which
had theretofore heen the property of John Comyn.

LIEUTENANT MICHAEL SCANLAN.

The Mac Scanlans were a Sept of Louth, from whom
the ancient locality of Bally-Mac-Scanlan took its
name. The O'Scanlans, of whom this officer appears
to have been a member, were of Pobble-O'Brien in
the Counties Limerick and Kerry. In 1261, Dr.
Patrick O'Scanlan, who had previously been Bishop
of Raphoe, was translated to the Primacy of Armagh.

ENSIGN STEPHEN STRITCH.

Ortelius's Map locates this family in the County of
Limerick. Nothing has been found worthy of note
concerning this officer.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. _ _

Cornelius O'Driscoll,

Lieutenant-Colonel.
Sir Alphonso Moffett,

Major.

Donogli O'Donovan. Richard Donovan. .

Daniel Fitz-Richard

O'Donovan.

Daniel Regan. .

Daniel O'Donovan, Jun.

Joseph Fox,

Grenad.

Denis M'Croghan.
Randall Hurley.
Teigue Hurley.

John Mahon. Ffalvey. — Gregson.

O'Mahon.

William Coggan.
Denis Mahony.

, Carew.

James Goolde.

Der. O'Connor.

Denis M'Cartie.

Teigue M'Cartie.

Teigue O'Donovan.

Daniel M'Donough O'Donovan.

Richard O'Donovan.

Hugh Donovan.

All the names below the middle line are gathered from the very interest-
ing family papers of the O'Donovan. They also notice seventeen Lieu-
tenants, fifteen Ensigns, six ' Reformados,' a Chaplain, and a Quarter-
master ; but none appear in the Army List, here undertaken to be illustrated.

886

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COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN.

The O'Donovans were at a very early period Chiefs of
Cairbre-Aodbha, the present Barony of Kenry, County
of Limerick, where their chief Castle was at Bruree.
They afterwards moved southward over the plains of
Hy-Figeinte, situated in the Barony of Conilloe, in
the same county, and extending into Kerry. "When
driven thence," writes the well-known Irish antiqua-
rian John O'Donovan, " by the Baron of Offaley, they
appear to have sunk into comparative inferiority in
their newly acquired settlements in O'Driscoll's
country, whither they were soon followed by a branch
of the Mc Carthys, similarly expulsed from the plains of
Cashel: one fact is certain, that they (the O'Donovans)
paid no tribute in Hy Figeinte, as being senior to both
McCarthy and O'Brien, descended as they were from
Daire Cearb, the second son of Olioll Flannbeg, King
of Munster, while the McCarthys came from Lughaidh,
the third son of the same Olioll." It does, however,
appear that in this, their Cork territory, they were
Lords of Clan-Cathail, an extensive district in West
Carbery, with their chief residence at Castle Donovan,
while the Castles of Banduff and Eahine also belonged
to them. This Sept declined to send any Kepresenta-
tive to Perrot's Parliament of 1585. Donell O'Dono-
van was then their Chief, as proved by a decree of
Chancellor Loftus, dated 12th February, 1592,
wherein it was decided that " Donell O'Donovan, son
of Donell McTeigue, by Ellen ny Leary his wife, had

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proved his lawful election in 1584, as the O'Donovan
in succession to his father, who died seized of the
Lordship and hereditaments of Clancahill, being a
customary Lordship."* This Donell was afterwards
actively engaged in the war of Munster ; and he, with
Florence Mac Cartie and Owen Mac ' Eggan,' at the
close of the year 1599, directed an appeal to invite
the co-operation of Donogh Moyle Mac Cartie in their
opposition to the Queen ; concluding, " Therefore, if
ever you will be ruled by us, or tender the wealth of
yourself and your country, we are hereby earnestly
to request you to come and meet us to-morrow at
' Cloudghe ;' and so requesting you not to fail hereof
in anywise, to God's keeping we commit you.
O'Neale's camp at Iniscare, March 2, 1599." When
the King of Spain soon after sent over to Munster a
supply of men on his pay and entertainment, one
hundred were assigned to the command of Donell
O'Donovan ; and in 1602, of £3,710 which that
monarch remitted for his adherents here, £200 was
appropriated for ' O'Donovan.' Donell contrived to
avert confiscation, but, after the accession of James
the First (in 1608), thought it prudent to surrender
his estates, and had a re-grant thereof in 1615, as
Donell O'Donovan of Castle Donovan. The patent
enumerates the townlands, &c. of a very extensive
territory, " with all the customs, royalties, dues and
privileges heretofore or now granted, due and payable
to said Donell and his ancestors in the ports, bays,

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 051.

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or creeks of Castlehaven, Squince, Clonkeogh, and the
western part of Grlandara, with erection of two manors
out of certain parcels of the premises, to be respectively
styled Castle Donovan and Rahine, and liberty to im-
park 500 acres for each, with courts, tolls, markets,
and fairs. At the same time, on a similar surrender,
a like grant passed to Donell Oge ny Cartain O'Dono-
van, of Cloghetradbally, County of Cork ; and to
Moriertagh O'Donovan, his son, of Ardagh, in said
county ; giving to them also sundry castles, with an
immense extent of townlancls and chiefries, and the
'customs, royalties, and privileges due and payable
to said Donell and his ancestors in the port of Glan-
dore a large prescribed territory being thereby
erected into the manor of Cloghetradbally, with liberty
to impark five hundred acres, to hold courts leet and
baron, &c.

Donell of Castle Donovan died about 1638,
leaving three sons, Edmund, Daniel, and Teigue.
The former, writes Mr. John O'Donovan, hav-
ing been engaged in an agrarian contest with
O'Sullivan Beare, about the line of boundary between
Clancahill and Bear and Ban try, in a moment
of excitement struck down O'Sullivan so violently
that death ensued. Edmund fled to the County of
Kilkenny, where he lived for many years, until at
length his father, discovering his retreat, came up to
him with a hope of bringing him home ; but the son
had in the intermediate time married Catherine,
daughter of William Burke of Gaulstown, with whom

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 889

lie got several townlands as a portion, and, under the
influence of his new connections, and perhaps a hor-
ror of re- visiting the scene of his crime, he refused to
return, nor did he ever ; but was slain in some few
years after at a place called Ballinvegga, near New
Ross. His lineal descendant in the fifth generation
is the aforesaid John O'Donovan.* The Attainders
of 1643 include Hugh O'Donovan of Dellygymore,
Donell O'Donovan the elder (then deceased), and his
son Donell or Daniel O'Donovan Oge of Castle Dono-
van, Murtough McDonnell O'Donovan of Cloghetrad-
bally (the Moriertagh of the above patent of 1615),
Eichard of Ballyganeagh, and Murrough of Carrew-
gariffe, all in the County of Cork. The above Donell
the elder died about 1638, when his eldest son, said
Edmund, having been considered to have abdicated
his claim to the chieftaincy, said Daniel Oge, his
second son, was duly inaugurated Chief of Clancahill.
He died in 1660, and by an order of the Privy
Council in the following year this Colonel Daniel,
who was his son, was ordered to be restored to all his
castles, lands, &c. The Royal declaration of thanks
in the Act of Settlement (1662) names two Daniels of
the County of Cork, Captain Daniel O'Donovan of
Kilcoleman, and Daniel O'Donovan of Forneise ; yet,
after that recorded acknowledgment, Charles the
Second in 1666 confirmed Castle Donovan, Sheehane,

* This gentleman has kindly forwarded many particualrs of
great interest in the line of his immediate ancestry from Edmund.
They are, in the necessity of curtailment, reluctantly omitted.
He has five sons now living.

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&c, (1465 acres in the Barony of West Carbery) to
a Cromwellian officer, Lieutenant Nathaniel Evanson.
Besides Colonel Daniel, Thomas Donovan was an
Ensign in Sir John Fitz-Gerald's Infantry, and Philip
Donovan in Colonel John Barrett's. Colonel Daniel
was himself the Portreeve in King James's new
Charter to Baltimore, and one of its Eepresentatives
in the parliament of 1689. The family papers and
relics of this period, which have been liberally
supplied in aid of this volume by the O'Donovan,
afford singular facilities for illustrating movements
and proceedings of this campaign, and from them
most of the following curious notices have been
adduced.

At the close of the year 1688, 6th March, Colonel
Daniel received for the use of his Regiment sundry
guns, swords, pistols, muskets, and one small fusee
musket. Three days after, Daniel McDonough
O'Donovan, a Captain in this Regiment, who lived
near Castletown in the Barony of Carbery, having
heard that a Mr. Bryan Townsey had gathered there
a garrison of £ rebels' (i. e. to King James's Govern-
ment), and was sending abundance of goods, arms,
and ammunition for Baltimore by water, with a detach-
ment to convoy them thither, he promptly took
twenty of the most resolute of his men, and led them
by stratagem up to the castle door, when he de-
manded admission, with which requisition Townsey
complied, on seeing Colonel O'Donovan's order there-
for. The Captain found there " twenty -nine fire-

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 891

arms, three pistols, and a hundred small bullets, seven
swords, three bottles with two horns full of powder,
and they threw a firkin of powder (writes the Cap-
tain) and a great quantity of leaden bullets into the
sea at my arrival." On the 16th of this March, Colonel
Daniel had a further order for 413 muskets and 650
swords to distribute amongst his soldiers at Cork ;
while, on the 9th of July following, after King James
had landed, Captain James Goolde, also of this Regi-
ment, received for its use forty-two muskets, sixty
belts and thirty -five swords ; and on the 14th, fifty-
five muskets, seventy-five swords, and seventy-six
belts. At the Parliament of Dublin, held in May,
1689, Daniel O'Donovan was one of the Representa-
tives for the Borough of Doneraile, while another
Daniel and Jeremiah O'Donovan sat for that of Balti-
more. Jeremiah was then the proprietor of Cloghe-
tradbally, which it is said he sold in 1726. On the
25th of July, 1689, Colonel Daniel O'Donovan received
a Royal order, signed 4 Melfort' (then King James's
Secretary of State), directing him to keep up all the
supernumerary companies of his Regiment over and
above thirteen, till further orders for the disposing
thereof ; and to send an account of their number,
with a view to providing for their subsistence. On
the 1st of August following, James Gallwey, the agent
for clothing the Colonel's Regiment, states his charges
as follows : —

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± or frize coating, lining, and ' dying for

each man - - -

Jb or making the coat and ' britches

Hat and hat- band -

Pair of shoes and buckle - " -

o
O

Shirt and making -

Cravat ------

' Swash'

Pair of ' Stockens' -

' Wascoate' -

£1 4

Some time after the last date, this Colonel presented
his petition to the King then in Dublin, setting forth
that his (petitioner's) father had " raised for his late
Majesty of blessed memory two companies of Foot,
and that both petitioner's uncles commanding them
were slain, as by letter of his late Majesty annexed
may appear : That petitioner was to be restored to an
ancient estate of £2,000 per arm. by the said letter ;
but by the partiality of the late government of Ireland,
(and, as appears above, with the confirmatory sanction
of him of ' blessed memory') the petitioner was
deprived of the benefit thereof, and his estate set out
by the late Acts of Settlement : That petitioner
suffered long imprisonment by the oppression of the
late Earl of Orrery and others, and was tried for his
life before the Lord Chief Justice Keatinge and Sir
Richard Eeynells, on account of the late pretended
plot, as the said Lord Chief Justice and your
Majesty's Attorney-General can testify ; whereby

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 893

most of his small acquired fortune was exhausted :
That petitioner, by commission, raised about Christ-
mas last a Regiment of Foot, and ever since kept
them without any subsistence or relief [from Govern-
ment], and notwithstanding your Majesty's orders and
patent at Cork for quarters, arms, and subsistence,
your petitioner could not at all to this day procure
any, whereby he was exposed to the censure of those
he engaged in his Regiment, and they discouraged,
being informed the Regiment was disbanded, which
could not be otherwise imagined, by the usage your

petitioner had from time to time That the people

of the country about your petitioner's habitation and
estate are exposed to the sea, and pirates frequently
amongst them, so that it may be requisite, if it so
please your Sacred Majesty, to have still men in arms
thereabouts for your Majesty's service. May it there-
fore please Your Majesty to order what stands most
consistent with your Majesty's pleasure in the pre-
mises, and your petitioner," &c, &c. Sir Richard
Nagle being Secretary at this time, directed a letter
of 11th October, 1689, from Dublin Castle to Colonel
O'Donovan, in which he wrote, " Sir, I have yours of
the 10th instant. The King is very well pleased with
you, for the care you have taken of preferring the
reformed officers, [the 4 reformados' alluded to ante, p.
885]. I am glad to hear the good account Sir Edward
Scott gives of your Regiment, and I hope now that
they are under your immediate care, they will retrieve
their credit, lost at Duncannon. The Lords of the

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Treasury have the care of providing the necessaries
for the fort and sentinels ; a Commissary is ordered at
Cork to pay the subsistence duly there. It is not his
Majesty's intention to displace any Captains or
subalterns that have raised their men and recruits ;
but, when vacancies do happen, he would have the
reformed officers preferred, &c. E. Nagle." A
memorandum of 28th October in the same year
acknowledged the receipt of £500 for Colonel O'Do-
novan's Regiment, and states allowances : —

£ s. d.

" To Captain Regan's soldiers, sergeant
and six men, that guarded the money
from Dublin 1 10 6

To Lieutenant Fa^vey and Ensign

Gregson, that came for the money - 7 16 0

For the barrel to put the money in 0 16

For a bag and to a porter - 0 5 6, &c.

Another receipt, without date, specifies as applied,
to the use of the soldiers of this Regiment, 842 coats,
638 breeches, 446 waistcoats, 886 hats, 218 hat-
bands, 514 ' carawiths,' and 600 bandaliers [cases for
charges of powder]. About this time the Earl of
Dover, being still in King James's service, wrote to
Colonel O'Donovan, then in Kinsale, his Majesty's
order, " that the men belonging to the three companies
that are reduced, should be distributed in your Regi-
ment, to fulfil such companies as are not complete ;
and finding Lieutenant-Colonel Napier's company very
weak, you are desired to let him have such men out of

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 895

the three companies that may complete his company,
and the rest you will divide according to the King's
order." Soon after, Colonel Churchill compelled the
surrender of Kinsale. In the attack about this time
on Castletown, near Castlehaven, " the garrison was
commanded by O'Donovan, O'Driscoll, and one Barry.
Captain Mac Bonayn made gallant opposition to the
besiegers, but was killed there, as were also Colonel
O'Driscoll and Captain Teigue O'Donovan."* At the
close of the year 1690, 29th February, Colonel
George Hamilton wrote from Bandon to Colonel
O'Donovan at his camp, " Sir, there being one John
Jackson, sergeant of Captain Ker's company, lately
taken by some rapparees, if you will send him to
Dunmanway or any other adjacent garrison, I'll send
you Sergeant Deady in his place, or two soldiers both
of your name, who were sent to Cork when the
Assizes 1 wor' sitting, so not in my custody. John
Eoch is at Dunmanway ; though a very notorious rob-
ber, yet if you own him as a 1 shouldier,' he is at your
service. What men are in your custody, if you will
accept a month's pay, which, ' conform' to military dis-
cipline, is the full ransom of any private centinel, I
will upon my honour do the same with you, whenever
we take any of yours. I ' clesaired' Captain Bruce to
acquaint you of a servant, one John ' Mack Claud,'
who 1 brok' open my coffer, and ' mead' amongst the
Eapparees. If you have any ' sitch' man, I don't
doubt of your compliance in sending him to some of

* Story's Impartial History, part 1, p. 151.

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our frontiers, which will singularly c oblidge,' &c,
G. H."

In the following year (1691), sundry letters were
addressed to the Hon. Colonel O'Donovan by Captain
John Gordon, from Enniskeen and Bandon, by Patt
Murray at the former place, by John Melvill at Boss,
and Alexander Hamilton from Castlehaven, chiefly
relating to exchanges of prisoners. " I am, for my
own part," says the latter, in a letter of 6th May^
" sensible of your kindness for using my soldiers so
kindly, and if ever it be my good fortune to have any
of your soldiers prisoners, you may assure yourself
they shall have no worse usage. I should be glad
the time would allow us to drink one bottle. — No
more at present, but I rest your most humble servant
— —Alexander Hamilton. My service to your Lady
and all your family." In a week after, the Colonel
received another communication from the last cor-
respondent ; " Sir, I received yours in the field, in pur-
suit of the military who 1 has' robbed my ' contributes,'
but I have prevented them from carrying off their
prey. If you please, I would meet you at your
daughter's, or privately or publicly at Skibbereen, for
it can do no hurt to me : I have an order under the
General's and Judge Crock's hand, for to speak with
you if you'll allow me that honour ; if you know of
any other more convenient let me know, with the
bearer with all haste. I will drink a bottle with you
very heartily, which I shall bring with me. — No more
at present — my service to your Lady — daughter — and

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 897

all other friends, and we drink your health at present
with a cup of - punsh.' A. Hamilton." Two days
after the last date, " a party of the militia of Banclon
took Captain Hugh Donovan and six of O'Donovan's
Kegiment prisoners." * And Colonel O'Donovan
himself and Mac Cartie More were at the same time
nearly surprised by the Williamite forces.f

In the middle of May, 1691, the Colonel George
Hamilton, before alluded to as stationed at Bandon,
and who seems to have had a strong personal friend-
ship for this Colonel, renewed his well intentioned
overtures : " Sir, I have received your last by Cap-
tain Hamilton ; you'll find I have done you all kind-
ness I could to persuade you to be of our side ; I hope
you have considered the business, and believe me it
will not be in my power to procure such conditions
for the future, or yet for you to expect larger terms
than now offered. G. H." Hamilton, in two days
after, more explicitly offered the Colonel, as by
authority, " freedom from all prosecutions for any in-
jury or trespass done by him or by his command since
the 1st of August, 1688, to the date" (of the letter),
if he would come over ; while three days after that,
the before-named Alexander Hamilton also wrote to
this Colonel again from Castlehaven : — " On Saturday,
between eight and nine, if it please God, I shall meet
you at Clough Castle, with my daughter Nell and one
officer or two, and from thence shall do myself the
honour to wait upon you and your lady at your

* Story's Impart. Hist, part 2, p. 76. f Idem, p. 177.

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quarters." On that very day, Colonel O'Donovan re-
ceived a marching order from Brigadier Francis Car-
roll (who, with his Regiment of Dragoons, is before
alluded to), in which the Brigadier is styled 'Governor
and Commandant-in-Chief of his Majesty's Army in
the Counties of Kerry and Cork.' He says herein,
" By virtue of an order directed to me by his Grace
the Duke of Tyrconnel, you are to march with your
Eegiment from the town of Killarney to the camp of
Athare (Adare), by secure and convenient ways, so
as to be there in three days after you march from
hence. You are to send your Major or some other
officer to receive further instruction either at Lime-
rick or Athare, withal to take care that there be no
disorder committed, nor pressing of horses or plow-
garrons, being the Governor's 'straight' command.
Given at Ross." On the 1 6th of August, " A Dutch
vessel, laden with wine and salt, was surprised by
O'Donovan's men; but Colonel Beecher, with four boats
manned with a party of our men, came about from the
island of Shortin, retook the ship, forced twelve of the
Irish into the sea who were drowned, and took twenty-
four more of them that had got into the boats."*

Immediately on the capitulation of Limerick, this
Colonel received a pressing letter from J. Roth,
informing him that the writer had received "an order
from Lord Lucan to march forthwith to Carrigfoyle,
to be embarked in the French fleet, and to give the
Regiments in these quarters orders to march that way ;"

* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 198.

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 899

and he recommends Colonel O'Donovan to lose no
time in marching his forces, "for the enemy's com-
mander in this country is very precise." In a few
days after (12th October), Major-General John
Wauchop wrote further to him, " on sight thereof to
march with his Regiment to the harbour of Cork for
embarkation." The Colonel was, however, attainted
in 1691, by two Inquisitions taken in Dublin and
two in Cork ; while, in 1696, two other Inquisitions
were held on him in the latter county. There were
also then attainted Daniel Mac Richard O'Donovan,
William, Hugo, and Murrough Mc Teigue O'Dono-
van, Cornelius Donovan, Richard Donovan, Richard
Donovan, junior, and Donatus Donovan. Colonel
Daniel was, however, decreed entitled to the benefit of
the Articles of Limerick, and had further a special
pass, dated 4th January, 1692, to permit him " to
travel to Timoleague, and thence to Cork, to deliver
himself a prisoner to the High Sheriff without molest-
ation, he behaving himself as becometh ; unless you
have any order contrary from the said Sheriff.

Signed, B. Townsend. You are also to permit

Captain Conolly and Captain Donovan to pass as
above, B. T." The Cornelius Donovan, above named
on the Attainders, obtained in 1700 a warrant for
free pardon on account of his early submitting, his
services to suffering Protestants, and his own losses
on such occasions.* At the Court of Claims in this
year, Morgan, the eldest son of this Cornelius, claimed

* Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, folio 503.

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and was allowed an estate tail in his Cork confisca-
tions. A certificate of 22nd April, 1708, testifies
" that Colonel O'Donovan, on the noise of an invasion
in Scotland, voluntarily brought in and delivered to
the authorised official a horse, bridle and saddle for
her Majesty's service ; and after, on the report that
the French, that were designed to invade Scotland,
were returned to Brest, gave security that the
said horse should be re-delivered to that officer at any
time, when required for Her Majesty's service. He
appears to have died soon after (at least before the
accession of George the First), when (in 1715) his
son and heir, "Richard O'Donovan, alias O'Donovan of
Banclahan, took the oath of abjuration and allegiance,
and entered into recognizances with security to
behave himself peaceably, &c." Such was the ungene-
rous distrust to which the old Irish were then sub-
jected. The Colonel was twice married ; by his first
wife, Victoria, daughter of Captain Coppinger, he had
only one child, Helena ; by his second he had sons,
whose male succession became extinct with General
Richard O'Donovan of the 6th Dragoons ; who, after
having served with honour in the campaigns in Flan-
ders and Spain, died in 1829 without issue. Helena,
the only child of the Colonel's first wife, married the
aforesaid Cornelius, who was her cousin. Their issue
was (with a younger son Teigue, who married in
Jamaica, but died s.P. when his widow married
Admiral, afterwards Sir William Burnaby, from whom
has descended the present Sir William Crisp Hood

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 901

Burnaby, of Brougliton Hall), an elder brother
Morgan, the lineal ancestor of the present O'Donovan.
The vesting of the Chieftaincy in his direct ancestors
was however suspended, as before suggested, by the
existence of issue male of Colonel Daniel by his
second wife, until 1829, when this ancient Irish title
vested in Morgan William O'Donovan, now of Mont-
pelier, Cork. He is the heir male of Teigue Dono-
van, the next brother of this Colonel Daniel O'Dono-
van's father ; both being the sons of Daniel or Donell
O'Donovan the elder, who was the Chieftain during
much of the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CORNELIUS
O'DEISCOLL.

The ancient Sept of O'Driscoll or O'Hederiscoll were
settled in Carberry with Bear andBantry in the County
of Cork. They likewise possessed the island of Cape
Clear, the territory about the Bay of Baltimore, and,
according to Smith (History of Cork), a part of
Iveragh in Kerry. Within this ambit they had
castles in Dunashad and Dunalong, near Baltimore,
both of which were garrisoned by the Spaniards in
the war of 1599 ; they had also a Castle at Duna-
more in Cape Clear Island. In 1310, a period when,
as Sir John Davis, the Attorney-General to Queen
Elizabeth and King James, expresses himself,* " the

* Historical Relations, p. 49.

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mere Irish were not only accounted aliens but enemies,
and altogether out of the protection of the law, so as it
was no capital offence to kill them," a very remark-
able trial took place at Limerick before John Wogan,
Lord Justice of Ireland ; wherein a William Fitz-
Koger, being indicted for the murder of Eoger de
Cantelon, pleaded that he could not in law be guilty
of murder in that instance, for that said Eoger (the
victim) was an Irishman and not of free blood ; that
in verity said Eoger was of the cognomen of
O'Hederiscoll, and not of the name of Cantelon ; and
the jury found the facts to be so, whereupon the
prisoner was acquitted. Smith, in his History of
"Waterford, vol. 1, p. 127, details acts of bitter hosti-
lity by the O'Hederiscoll and the Poers against the
citizens, of that seaport. The Four Masters record
throughout, in frequent Annals, the succession of the
chiefs of this Sept ; and relate a memorable pilgrimage
of the O'Driscoll More and Teigue his son, in 1472^
according to the piety of the day, to the shrine of St.
James of Compostella in Spain. The father died on
his return, as did his son within a month after.

In Perrot's Parliament of 1585, the Sept was re-
presented by Fynnin (anglicised Florence) son of
Connor, son of Fynnin, son of Connor. This indi-
vidual, stiled Sir Fynnin O'Driscoll, took an active
part in the war of Munster, adhering to O'Neill and
the Spanish invaders in 1599, as fully set forth in
the Pacata Hibernia. When Don Juan De Aguila
brought over money from his King for the native

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN's INFANTRY. 903

chiefs that joined him, £500 thereof was appropriated
to Sir Fynnin O'Driscoll and Connor his son. The
fatality of national division on grounds of private
feuds, is powerfully evinced by a Eeport of the Lord
President of Minister to the Council of England after
the battle of Kinsale : — "As for Sir Fynnin O'Driscoll,
O'Donovan, and the two sons of Sir Owen Mac Cartie,
they and their followers are so ivell divided in factions
amongst themselves, as they are falling to preying
and killing one another, which we conceive will much
avail to the quieting of these parts."* Immediately
after that battle, this Fynnin's eldest son, Connor, and
Connor Oge his son and heir, then aged nine years,
fled in a small bark to Spain. Donnell, another son
of Sir Fynnin, passed also to Spain with Don Juan
de Aguila, as did likewise Dermot Mac Connogher
O'Driscoll, with his brother and sons, and three sons
of 1 Iffie O'Driscoll.' Connor Oge afterwards served
in the Spanish navy, and was slain in an engagement
with the Turks in 1618. Old Sir Fynnin, yielding
to the pressure of circumstances, and on the extinc-
tion of most of his family, surrendered in 1608 to the
King all the territory of Collymore, called O'Driscoll's
country, and the soil, shore, and strand of the haven
of Baltimore, with the Islands of Inisherkin and three
others. The wide extent of this district within the
County of Cork is defined in the grant thereof to
Thomas Crocke of Baltimore, Esq. which immediately
followed. In 1611, however, it appears on record,

* Pacata Hibernia, vol. 2, p. 505.

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that said Crocke had licence to alienate all Colly more
to said Fynnin O'Driscoll, Walter Coppinger, and
Donogh O'Driscoll. The Attainders of 1643 present
the names of Teigue and Florence O'Driscoll of Bally-
mac-Irrene, Dermot O'Driscoll of Crnldrout, Fyrmin
Mac Eista of Ballineteragh, Cornelius O'Driscol of
Donelong, and Donogh O'Driscoll of the same place,
all in the County of Cork. The last-named was then
Chief of the Sept, and died in four years after his
attainder. His son Connor married Catherine Mac
Cartie, and died before his father, leaving another
Donogh then a minor his heir, who in 1654 was ex-
pulsed from his inheritance by the Cromwellians. His
son was the above Lieutenant-Colonel, who, in 1662,
being then a Lieutenant, received the Eoyal thanks
through the Act of Settlement, 1 for services beyond
the sea ;' as did also Florence O'Driscoll of Ballyhan.

A Captain Driscoll is stated to have had an inde-
pendent company after the battle of the Boyne. On
the 2nd of October after that engagement, " the Lord
Marlborough came to Kingsale with the army ; on
the 3rd, Major-General Felton and Colonel Fitz-
Patrick stormed the old fort called Castle-ni-Park,
whereupon the enemy retired into the castle ; at the
same time three barrels of powder took fire at the
gate, and blew up with about forty soldiers ; at length,
the Governor, Colonel O'Driscoll, and 200 of his gar-
rison being killed, the rest surrendered upon quarter."

" On the 23rd of November following, an attack

was made by a Jacobite party of 500 men, under the

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 905

young Colonel O'Driscoll, on Castletown ; but they
were so well received by Colonel Townshend and his
garrison, that twelve dropped at the first volley ; and
upon a second, Colonel O'Driscoll, Captain O'Donovan,
and Captain Cronin, and about 300 others were
slain." On the authority of the Appendix to King's
State of the Protestants, it would appear that a
Francis Napper was Lieutenant-Colonel of this Regi-
ment in 1690. Those of this name attainted in 1691
were Cornelius O'Driscoll, Cornelius O'Driscoll, jun.
and eight others of the name in the County of Cork.
Cornelius junior appears identical with an officer in
Spain, styled Le Sieur Corneille O'Driscoll, distin-
guished during the great War of the Succession in
1707 and 1708, when he was Lieutenant-Colonel to
the Regiment of Dragoons of the famous Count Daniel
O'Mahony, before alluded to, {ante, p. 756, &c. ) At the
Court of Claims in 1700, the Archbishop of Dublin
claimed and was allowed an estate in fee in some of the
Cork confiscations of the above Lieutenant-Colonel ;
while the castle, town, and lands of Bally-Mac-Rowan,
other parts thereof, were in 1703 sold to the Hollow
Swords Blades' Company. From the above Lieutenant-
Colonel Cornelius, has lineally descended the present
William-Henry O'Driscoll, his great-great-grandson
and heir male.

MAJOR SIR ALPHONSO MOFFETT.
Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family.

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CAPTAIN DANIEL BEGAN.

The O'Begans were a native Sept of Meath, of whom
was Maurice Began, the secretary of Dermot McMur-
rough, whose account of the English Invasion has
been published in the first part of Harris's Hibernica.

The above officer appears to have been the

' Major' Began who was afterwards killed at the siege
of Deny. The most remarkable of the name in this
campaign was, however, Sir Teague O'Began, a truly
gallant, and, to his king, loyal officer. In May, 1690,
he was Governor of Charlemont, " when," says Story,
" cannon and mortar were sent up to force old Teague
from his nest, if he would not quit it otherwise." On
the 12th of that month, this veteran, " his provisions
having been spent, and no hopes of relief appearing,
desired a parley," and ultimately surrendered on
terms of the garrison being allowed to march out
with their arms and baggage.* In the following
year, on the 23rd of July, Lieutenant-Colonel Bamsey
of the Williamite army marching towards Sligo,
found at Bally sadare Bridge, four miles thence, Sir
Teague O'Began with eighty horse and about two
hundred foot very advantageously posted to hinder
his passage that way ; but Bamsey 's party attacking
them, they gave ground after some time, and a rein-
forcement aiding Bamsey, the enemy were pursued
almost to the fort of Sligo, about thirty being killed
and nineteen wounded ; Sir Teague narrowly escaping,

* Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 386.

COLONEL DANIEL O'DONOVAN'S INFANTRY. 907

for his mean appearance was the reason that a Lieu-
tenant was seized instead of him.* In the September
following, he, being Governor of that fort of Sligo,
was forced with his party by Colonel Michelburn from
the several outworks and ditches, and obliged to retire
into the heart of the fort ;f and, on the 21st of that
month, he was obliged to surrender that same, on
terms similar to those given to Galway, himself
marching out at the head of 600 men. J

CAPTAIN JOSEPH FOX.

This family name has been in some instances anglicised
from an Irish Sept, 0' 1 Sionagh,' who were seised in
Tefna, County of Westmeath, of a territory extending
over parts of the Baronies of Rathconrath and Clon-
lonan, with parcel of the Barony of Kilcoursey, in the
King's County. The head of the Sept in the time of
Elizabeth was known by the title of the Fox ; and he
it was who obtained large grants from her Majesty in
the latter county, with the title of Lord Kilcoursey.
The only individual of this name attainted in 1642 was
Arthur Fox of Cromlin, County of Dublin, who was
afterwards, by Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted from
pardon for life and estate. Three other officers of the
name appear on this Army List, while that of the
Attainders of 1691 presents eight.

* Story's Impartial History, vol 2, p. 176.
t Idem, p. 234.

% Harleian Tracts, v. 7, p. 487.

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REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

BRYAN, LORD IVEAGH'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. ______

Bryan Magennis, 1st, ) x. , , ,

■p • w _ o _ r Lieut—Colonel.

Irancis Waucnob, 2nd, )

Conn Magennis. . William Carr.

BRYAN MAGENNIS, LORD IVEAGH.

The Magennises were from very ancient time the
territorial Lords of Iveagh, in Dalaradia (Comity of
Down), claiming their descent from the famous
warrior Connall Cearnach, and ranking as the head
of the Clanna Rory. In 1314, when Edward the
Second sought the aid of the magnates of Ireland, he
directed an especial letter missive to Admilis ' Mac
Anegu$,DuciHibernicorum de Onmagh] he being then
the Magennis. In 1380, when Edmund Mortimer,
who had married the grand-daughter of Edward the
Third, came over to Ireland, various native chiefs
waited upon him, and amongst them Art Magennis,
the Lord of Iveagh, " who," says the Four Masters,
" was treacherously taken prisoner at Mortimer's re-
sidence, in consequence of which the Irish, and many
of the English themselves, became afraid to place any
confidence in him or trust themselves to his power."
This Magennis died in two years after of the plague,

BRYAN, LORD IVEAGIl'S INFANTRY. 909

at Trim, where lie was imprisoned. In 1418, the
illustrious Lord Furnival, having made a foray on
Iveagh, sustained a severe defeat ; and an immense
number of the English, say the Four Masters, were
slain or taken prisoners by Magennis on that occasion.
In 1550, Arthur Magennis was Bishop of Dromore,
while Eugene (Owen) Magennis was about the same
time Bishop of Derry. At Perrot's Parliament of
1585, this Sept was represented by Hugh, the son of
Donal Oge, son of Donal 6 Ciar (of the dark-brown
hair). On the Plantation of Ulster, Bryan Oge Mac
Rory Magennis of Edenticallow, County of Down,
having surrendered all his Lordship, Precinct, or
Circuit of Killwarlin, with all the townlands within
said territory, obtained a regrant thereof in 1611, to
hold same thenceforth free from Royal composition.
Other members of the Sept obtained grants of estates
in the same county. Sir Arthur Magennis, also, re-
leasing to the King all his claim and right to the
territory of Iveagh, had in 1613 a grant of various
and extensive townlands of his old inheritance within
Iveagh, the extent of which was soon after directed
to be ascertained on Inquisition.

Arthur, Lord Viscount Magennis, and Daniel
Magennis of Angestown, County of Meath, were
attainted in 1642. At the Supreme Council in
1646 sat Arthur Magennis, Bishop of Down and
Connor, as one of the Spiritual Peers, while of the
Commons were five of the Sept. Cromwell's denoun-
cing Act of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and

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estate Magennis, Viscount Iveagh, Sir Con

Magennis of the County of Down, Knight, and four
others of the name. The declaration of Royal thanks
in the Act of Settlement includes Captain Phelim
Magennis and Lieutenant Bryan Magennis of the
Province of Ulster, with Lieutenant Con 1 Mac Gen-
nis' of Iveagh, County of Down. On the Pension
List of the Establishment for 1687-8, the name of
Arthur, Lord Viscount Iveagh, appears for a pension
of £300. This extract, as are all others of the
Establishment for this period, is taken from the ori-
ginal vellum manuscript, dated 3rd of February, at
Whitehall, and signed by the Council in England.
It is preserved in the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin (E 1, 1). Besides Colonel Lord Iveagh, the
name of Magennis is commissioned on fhe other
Eegiments.

The Lord Iveagh and his Sept furnished King
James with two Regiments, one of Dragoons and the
other of Infantry. This nobleman sat in the Parlia-
ment of 1689 (his outlawry of 1642 having been
reversed); while in the Commons, Murtagh Magennis
of Greencastle and Eiver Magennis of Castlewellan,
Esqrs. represented the County of Down, and Bernard
Magennis of Ballygorionbeg was one of the Members
for the borough of Killileagh. Lord Iveagh was also
appointed Lord Lieutenant of Down, while two other
Magennises were his Deputy Lieutenants. — — In
June, 1691, two officers of this Sept were killed at
Athlone, and at the battle of Aughrim was taken

BRYAN, LORD IVEAGH'S INFANTRY. 911

prisoner Lieutenant-Colonel Murtogh Magennis, (for
to that rank had a Captain of Sir Neill O'Neill's
Dragoons arrived, by reason of the slaughter of that
gallant Eeginient at the Boyne). When Galway
surrendered in a few days after, Lady Iveagh and her
daughter, being then resident in the town, had an
especial protection for themselves in the Articles of
Capitulation.

Lord Iveagh married the Lady Margaret De Burgh,
daughter of William, the seventh Earl of Clanricarcle.
At the close of the campaign, he did not accompany
the Irish army to France, but entered the Imperial or
Austrian service, with a choice battalion of 500, part
of 2,000 Irish troops of King James's old army, who
were landed from Cork at Hamburgh, in June, 1692.
See ante, p. 663. Another portion of this Sept did,
however, go to France, and was there embodied with
followers of M'Mahon, Maguire, and other Ulster
Regiments.* The Attainders of 1691 present twelve
of the name.

A Captain Murtagh Magennis of Bulkeley's Bri-
gade was wounded at Lauffield in 1747.

FRANCIS WAUCHOP, LIEUTENANT-
COLONEL.

H E was a Scottish gentleman, a descendant, it might

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 353, and ' Irish Brigades,'
vol. 1, p. 359.

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seem, of James Wauchop of Ballygraphen, naturalized
by James the First on the plantation of Ulster, and
doubtless akin to Brigadier John Wauchop hereafter
noticed. Tyrconnel gave him this Commission.

ENSIGN WILLIAM CAKE.

This officer appears to have been a cadet of the
family of Carr, who, on the plantation of Ulster, or
rather earlier, were enfeoffed on the lands of Balle-
dock or Carrstown in the Little Ardes, by the Savages
of Portaferry. That property descended in the Carrs
from father to son until about 1762 ; when it vested
in three daughters of Rowland Carr, of whom one
having died, and the other two having intermarried
with persons of the name of Mac Henry, the property
was sold in 1792 to Pitter, in whose repre-
sentatives it now is.*

* Per information of John W. Hanna, Esq., Downpatrick.

COLONEL ROGER MAC ELLICOTT's INFANTRY. 913

EEGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL ROGER M'ELLICOTT's.

Captains.
The Colonel.

Teigue M'Carty,
Lieutenant-Colonel.

[Maurice Hussey, substl
tuted as Lieut. -Col. in
1690.]

[Edmund Fitzgerald,
Major.]

Daniel M'Carty.

Oliver Stephenson.

Daniel O'Donoghue.

Owen M'Carty.

John Fitz-Gerald.

George Aylmer.

Redmund Ferriter.

Charles M'Carty.

David Fitz-Gerald.

Edmund Fitz-Maurice.

Teigue M'Carty.

Lieutenants.
Donough Mac Fineen.
(M'Carty.)

Teigue M'Auliffe.
Nicholas Stephenson.
Callixtus O'Donoghue.
« Lieut. Duffe.
Garrett Fitz-Maurice.
Peter Aylmer.
David Rice.
Turlogh Sweeny.
James Fitz-Gerald.
Thomas Elliott.
William Harding.

Ensigns.
Charles M'Carty.

Daniel Dowling.
John Collamore.
Charles M'Carty.
Charles Carty.
Nicholas Fitz-Gerald.
John Connor.
Maurice Ferriter.
Owen M'Carty.
John M'Elligott.
Valentine Elliott.
Daniel Connor.

COLONEL ROGER MAC ELLICOTT.

This name is wholly distinct from that of M'Gilli-
cuddy. " The former," writes the Rev. Mr. Rowan
of Belmont, a very high authority on antiquarian
matters, especially in connection with Kerry, " is
variably spelt on old records M'Elligott and M'Leod.
The family originally came to Kerry in consequence

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of an early marriage of one of the Fitz-Maurices,
Barons of Lixnaw, with an heiress of that name ;
and by reason of this connexion Fitz-Maurice is said
to bear a tower in his coat of arms, and a parish of
Kerry near Tralee is called Bally-Mac-Elligott. In
1613, Sir Thomas Roper, Knight, passed patent for
various lands in Munster, and amongst these were
estates in the County of Kerry, described as parcel of
the lands of Ulick Mac Elligott, attainted. In the
Patent Bolls of 1625, is a pardon of alienation to
Maurice M'Elligott, sanctioning his granting over to
his nephew and heir, John M'Elligott, {inter alia)
Tullygannon, Lisardbonly, Glandanellane, and Tini-
agh, all which afterwards passed, by the marriage of
an heiress of this name, into the Chute family." An
Inquisition was held on Maurice's estates in 1624, as
was another on those of John M'Elligott in 1631.
From the Boll of this Begiment it seems to have been
thoroughly of Kerry formation, and it was part of the
Irish army which King James, before his abdication,
brought over to England, as a force on whose fidelity
he could rely. On one occasion during its sojourn
in England, "the King," writes the Earl of Clarendon
in his Journal, "went to Hampton Court to see 'Mac
G-illycudd's' Begiment, lately come out of Ireland."*
In June, 1688, it received order to return to its na-
tive country ; on the way to which, at Chester, the
Colonel received intelligence of the birth of the young

* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, &c, vol. 2,
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Prince, when he wrote (16th June), "I am enrap-
tured at the birth of a Prince, and Secretary Blath-
wayte may be assured that the whole Kegiment shall,
according to their duty, at the hour appointed, with
very signal tokens express their overflowing joys for
our new-born Prince." Accordingly, he again wrote
from thence the 30th June to Blathwayte, promising
a full relation of his journey into Ireland, and begging
to learn if his appearance at court immediately were
necessary. "Among the Southwell MSS.," writes Mr.
Rowan, " was a letter from Chester to this Secretary
of State, setting forth how enthusiastically the Irish
Regiment (i. e. McElligott's) drank the health of the
new-born Prince of Wales ; while another from the
authorities of that City complained that the excise
would suffer, from the way in which the Irish force
had marched away without paying their tavern bills."
" My ears," writes Captain Shakerly, the Governor of
Chester Castle (August 29th, 1688), "are filled with
the debts the officers have left unpaid, which if not
speedily paid, the public houses will be broken here
and the revenue of the excise unpaid." In the Par-
liament of 1689, this Colonel Roger McEllicott and
Cornelius McGillicuddy of the Irish Sept of the Reeks,
were the Representatives, in the Parliament of Dublin,
for the borough of Ardfert.

In September, 1690, occurred the siege of Cork,
where the future Duke of Marlborough, theretofore
the friend of James the Second, fought against hirn.
The City was numerously garrisoned, and its gover-

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nor was this Colonel Mac Ellicott, who, according to
Clarke, " showed more courage than prudence, in re-
fusing the good conditions which were offered him at
first." Indeed, the Duke of Berwick had so little
thought of its sustaining a siege, that he ordered him
to burn the town, and retire with his garrison into
Kerry. But, instead of that, he suffered himself to be
besieged, and, though in no condition to hold it out,
did so however for five days against Marlborough at
the head of a regular besieging force of above 10,600
Foot and 1,500 Horse, provided with every requisite
for success, and aided by the fire of two ships of war,
that played their cannon through the walls, and threw
their bombs into the place. At last, a considerable
breach being made, and no more than two small bar-
rels of powder left, the garrison, on the approach of
a last general assault which it would be impossible
to resist, surrendered as prisoners of war, to the
number of between four and five thousand men.
The terms of the capitulation (a copy of which is
preserved in Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc, vol. 10, p. 158)
were, however, most disgracefully violated. Colonel
Roger was, on this surrender, sent over a prisoner to
the Tower of London, where, as appears from his own
petition, he was detained three or four years ; having,
however, the liberty of the Tower at large, and some-
times going out into the town to the bagnio for his
health, on order of the governor. The continuance
of his imprisonment, it is averred, resulted from Lord
Clancarty's escape (see ante, p. 504), after which he

COLONEL ROGER MAC ELLICOTT'S INFANTRY. 917

was also kept close prisoner, " without giving any
new cause of offence, and was reduced in health to the
last extremity." In June, 1697, it was proposed to
exchange him.*

On the formation of Clancarty's Brigade in France,
Colonel Soger McEllicott was appointed its Colonel,
Edward Scott its Lieutenant-Colonel, and Cornelius
Murphy its Major. This Segiment was, with Dillon's,
engaged at the memorable siege of Barcelona, the
capture of which rewarded their valour and led to the
treaty of Syswick and the termination of the war.f
"Froni the mention of a General McElligott amongst
a number of great military or civil officers of Irish
birth or descent in the Austrian service, who dined
together in Vienna at a grand banquet on St. Patrick's
Day, 1766 (see ante, p. 758), it is probable that the
brave Colonel McEllicott emigrated to and settled in
the Imperial dominions, where the name was per-
petuated in the Austrian Army to the close of the last
century (see post, at Colonel Cuconaught McGuire).
Before the liberation of Lafayette, his family and com-
panions, in 1797, from their confinement by the
Austrian government, it appears that a Captain Mc
Elligott was entrusted with their detention as state
prisoners ; and that to his treatment of and conduct
towards them the prisoners bore grateful testimony. "J

* Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. pp. 286 and 581.
f O'Conor's Milit. Mem. pp. 199 and 230.
I O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 23G.

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[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MAURICE
HUSSEY.]

His name or rank does not appear on the present
Army List, but is inserted on the authority of the
appendix to King's State of the Protestants, as is also
the name of

[MAJOR EDMUND FITZGERALD.]

CAPTAIN DANIEL O'DONOGHUE.

The O'Donoghues constituted an ancient Sept of the
County of Cork, from which they were expelled in the
twelfth century by the Mc Cartys and O'Mahonys.
Thence settling in Kerry, they became possessed of the
country round Lough Lene and Killarney, and were
distinguished into the O'Donoghue More and the
O'Donoghue Ross lines. The Annals of Inisfallen
are, as might be expected, very full in notices of this
family. They continued to be a powerful Sept in
Kerry until, in the reign of Elizabeth, taking part
with the unfortunate Earl of Desmond, their estates
were confiscated and their strength dismembered. In
1605, Theobald Bourke, Baron of Castleconnel, had
a grant of (inter alia) Glenflesk, containing twenty-
one carucates, c almost all mountain, bog, and un-
profitable,' part of the estate of Geoffrey O'Donoghue

COLONEL ROGER MAC ELLICOTl's INFANTRY. 919

of Glinne, 'dead in rebellion and in 1613, Valentine
Browne of Molahiffe had a grant of Onaght-O'Do-
noghue More, in the Country of Desmond, the manor
and site of the Castle of Ross-O'Donoghue, the islands
of Inisfallen and Mucruss, and sundry other islands
therein, with all the waters and fishings to said manor
appertaining.

CAPTAIN GEORGE AYLMER.

Of this family, see ante, p. 179, &c. The original
appointment of this officer, ' our trusty and well be-
loved George Aylmer,' to be 4 a Captain in our Regi-
ment of Guards,' notifies the Royal will and pleasure
that he do ' take place and command upon occasion in
our army, as youngest Lieutenant- Colonel therein, &c.'

" Given at our Court at Dublin Castle, the 24th

day of August, 1689, and in the fifth year of our
reign. — By his Majesty's command, Ri. Nagle."*
This Aylmer was of the old line of Lyons, and there-
tofore, as appears by the Army List, had been placed
a Captain in this Regiment. Four years previous to
the date of this commission, he married Mary, eldest
daughter of Sir Valentine Browne, subsequently
created Baron Castleross and first Viscount Kenmare ;

* The original commission, endorsed No. 122, has been shewn
to the author of the present work by Michael Valentine Aylmer,
Esq., the lineal representative and heir male of the above
George.

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and himself was one of the Kepresentatives of the
County of Kildare in King James's Parliament of
1689. Walker, in his History of the Siege of Berry,
says that a Sir George Aylmer was taken prisoner
there ; but if the remark applies to this individual,
he was subsequently engaged in the war, [and was
comprehended, as then ' Colonel' George Aylmer, in the
Articles of Limerick. At the Court of Claims in
1700, he sought and was allowed, in right of his wife,
her portion oif the lands forfeited by Lord Kenmare ;
he also claimed an interest in the lands of Athcarne,
4 late of the private estate,' i. e. of James the Second,
when Duke of York. Captain George died in 1729,
and was interred in the family burial vault at Lyons.
His grandson, Michael Aylmer, sold in 1796 the
Lyons property, which had been for previous cen-
turies in his line of ancestors, to the first Lord
Cloncurry.

LIEUTENANT NICHOLAS STEVENSON.

" The Stephensons," writes the Reverend Mr. Rowan,
" were of Ballinashane, County of Limerick, correla-
tives of McEllicott ; their mother having been, as was
his, a daughter of Bishop Crosbie."

LIEUTENANT THOMAS ELLIOTT.
The name of ' Ely of is of record in Ireland from the

COLONEL ROGER MAC ELLICOTT'S INFANTRY. 921

time of Edward the Second, while on Ortelius's map
the Sept of Mac Eliot is located in the Barony of
Trughanacmy, and the Inquisition of attainder on
this officer describes him as 4 of Tralee.' Robert Elyot
was Bishop of Waterford in 1349 ; while, on the occa-
sion for putting in execution the King's Declaration
for the Settlement of Ireland, a Thomas Elliott was
in 1661 appointed one of the Sub-Commissioners.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HARDING.

The name of 1 Hardyn' is of record in Ireland from
the time of Edward the Third ; but nothing is known
of this officer or his immediate family.

ENSIGN JOHN COLLAMORE.

Nothing of note has been ascertained of this officer
or his family.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL EDMUND O'REILLY'S.

Although this Regiment is wholly unofficered on the
present list, it is stated, on a muster after the battle

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of the Boyne, to have then consisted of twenty-six
companies, having a total of 1?300 men. (Singer's
Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, vol. 2, p. 513).
The truly historic Sept of O'Reilly is very fully
chronicled in the Annals of the Four Masters ; they
were Lords of East Brefney (the County of
Cavan), and when Edward the Second, in 1314,
sought aid from the Irish Magnates, he directed an
especial letter missive for that object to Gillys
O'Reilly, 4 duci Hibernicorum de Brefney.'' The ecclesi-
astical rank, to which their learning and worth exalted
them within their ancient territory, may be estimated
by the singular frequency of their succession in the
Sees of Ulster. Five Bishops of Kilmore, alias
Brefney, were of the name, two of Clogher, one of
Derry, and five were Primates of Armagh.

In 1413, the O'Reillys and Mac Cabes* made a

* The MacCabes wereapowerful Sept of Monaglian and Cavan ;
yet, on this early Muster Roll of King James's Army, the name does
not appear ; it may be observed, however, that in the nomination
of influential persons for assessing and collecting the Poll Tax
for that King, Alexander Mac Cabe is one of those especially
selected for Monaghan, ante, p. 35. Long after that page was
printed, a " genealogy of the Mac Cabes, extracted from the
Archives of King James the Second kept at Paris," was forwarded
to the compiler. It is officially certified by "Jaques Terry, Athlone,
seul Genealogiste, Juge de Blazon, le Garde armorial de sa
Majeste, Jaques Second, Eoi de la Grande Britagna," and drawn
up at the instance of Sieur Alexander Mac Cabe, theretofore a Lieu-
tenant of Horse in the Regiment of Chevalier William Wallace,
for the expedition of Scotland, his brevet bearing date 21st April,
1692, signed by King James and countersigned by Lord Melfort,
Secretary of State. [Premising that this family supplied in old

COLONEL EDMUND O'REILLY'S INFANTRY. 928

desperate incursion into Meath of the Pale, burning
and committing those depredations which the struggle
for independence too obviously suggested ; " they
were, however," say the Four Masters, " overtaken by

time the hereditary Constables of the two Brefneys (Cavan and
Leitrhn), as well as of Fermanagh and Monaghan ; that the Four
Masters record Malachy Mac Cabe as dying, in that office, of the
plague, which prevailed in 1424 ; and that his son died so en-
titled in 1455 ; while in 1460 the Mac Cabe expired suddenly
at Lisard, in the County of Longford, when " his remains were
attended by fourteen score Galloglasses with their battle-axes,
conveying him to his burial place in Cavan."] " We have
made," says the Herald, " an exact search in the memorials of our
office, for the genealogy and armorials of said Alexander, and we
have found that himself is sojourning in Yitez in Normandy ; is
married to Dame Christine Fleming, daughter of Eichard
Fleming, Esq. ; who is the son of Christopher, son of James
Fleming, Lord Baron of Slane ; that said Alexander was the
son of Patrick, the son of Alexander, son of Darius ; which
Darius was the son of Edmund Mac Cabe, the last chief of the
Mac Cabes who enjoyed the family estates in Cavan, and his
spouse was the daughter of the great Mac Mahon of the County
of Monaghan, where Edmund possessed many lordships down to
the time of Elizabeth ; their chief house being then Moyne-
Hall, from which have shot out many branches." The document
then certifies the armorials to be, " Vert, a fesse wavy, between
three salmons naiant argent. Crest, a demi-griffin segreant.
Motto, ' Aut vincere aut mori,' as borne by the Mac Cabes for
many previous ages in Ireland ; and confirms them to said Alex-
ander and his lawful posterity in his escutcheons triumphal as
well as funereal ; dated on the 9th day of February, in the first
year of the reign of James the Third, at the castle of St. Ger-
mains-en-Laye. A subsequent testimonial, dated at Versailles,
25th February, 1721, being the 28th year of the reign of our most
high, most puissant, most serene Prince James the Third" &c. seeks

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the English, who slew Mahon Mac Cabe, Laughlin
Mac Cabe, and a great many of their people." The
death of the O'Reilly, Hugh Conallach, son of Maol-
mora, son of John, son of Cathal, in 1583, and of his
wife Isabel Barnewall, is glowingly commemorated by
the Annalists. His son, John ' Roe' O'Reilly, claimed
to represent the Sept in Perrot's Parliament of 1585.
Submitting to the English government, he repaired to
London, where he was honorably received at Court,
and knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Overcome by Royal
favour, he consented to hold his extensive estates as
under the Crown, and to abandon the ancient tenures
and customs of tanistry ; but soon afterwards was
induced to take part with the Earl of Tyrone against
the English. He died at Cavan in 1596, and on his
death his brother Philip, who had some five years
previously been confined in the Castle of Dublin, bat
escaped with Red Hugh O'Donnell in 1592, was
appointed c Prince of Brefney' by the Earl of Tyrone.
He, however, held the lordship for but a short time,

to further verify this pedigree, &c. The above Alexander Mac
Cabe, according to the family tradition, had lived in the estab-
lished chief seat at Moyne-Hall, while he also purchased the Castle
of Stradone, with sixteen townlands in the County of Cavan,
from John Fisher, a Cromwellian officer, for £800. He, how-
ever, forfeited the whole in 1691, having in that year fought at
the head of his clansmen at Aughrim. The survivors of that
fatal day served at Limerick, and such as outlived its capitula-
tion departed to France with Sarsfield, never to return. A
Bryan Mac Cabe was also attainted in 1691, when his estates in
Cavan were sold to Robert Johnson.

COLONEL EDMUND O'REILLY'S INFANTRY.

925

having been accidentally killed in the November after
his inauguration. Maolmora, the son of Sir John, ' a
young man of fine person, great valour and ambition,'
who was married to a niece of the Earl of Ormond,
on the death of his uncle Philip, aspiring to the Lord-
ship, joined the English, repaired to London on his
father's policy, and was received with no less favour
by the Queen, who gave him a grant of lands in
Cavan under letters patent, with the promise of an
Earldom. He commanded a Regiment of Cavalry in
the English service, and was called 4 the Queen's
O'Reilly.' He was slain in 1598, at the great battle
of the Yellow Ford in Armagh.

In the time of James the First, Sir John Davis,
the Attorney-General, wrote an interesting Report
relative to the County of Cavan and its ancient rulers,
which is preserved in the MSS. of Trinity College,
Dublin, (F. iii. 16, fol. 121, &c.) In 1608, Sir Garret
Moore of Mellifont had a grant of a large portion of
the Cavan estates of Brian Mac Phelim O'Reilly,
attainted ; as had Mary Lady Delvin, widow ; and
her son Sir Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, of other
Cavan estates of O'Reillys, attainted. In 1610, Sir
Thomas Ridgeway passed patent for yet more of
O'Reilly's Cavan property on the plantation system,
parcels of which are described as having come to the
Crown 'by the killing in rebellion of Bryan ne
Sawegh, in Monaghan.'

In 1635, Colonel Philip O'Reilly, of Ballinacargy
Castle in the County of Cavan, was recognised as the

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O'Keilly ; he was son of Hugh, son of the before men-
tioned Sir John, and when a young man had served
some time in the Spanish army. Shortly after his
return to Ireland, he became one of the chief leaders
in the great 4 rising' of 1641, and was a distinguished
commander for many years in co-operation with Owen
Roe O'Neill, to whose sister Rose he was married.
He commanded the troops of the Confederate Catho-
lics within the County of Cavan, and was Governor
of that town when Wolseley made the attack alluded
to (ante, p. 21). It may be added that at this battle
a Major Reilly and Captain Reilly were killed, as was
also a Lieutenant-Colonel Luke Reilly.* Colonel
Philip was thereupon attainted, as were seven others
of the name. In 1652, Colonel Phillip was de-
nounced by Cromwell's Act, as was also Maolmurry
O'Reilly of the County of Cavan. Philip was neces-
sitated to expatriate himself, and entering the Spanish
service in the Netherlands, died there in the year
1655, and was buried in the Irish monastery at
Louvain. His relative, Colonel Miles O'Reilly of
Camett, was High Sheriff of the County of Cavan in
1641, and was a commander of note at that period.
He also retired along with Philip, and afterwards went
to France, where he died about 1660, and was
buried in the Irish monastery at Chalons-sur-Marne.
Hugh Roe, the son of Colonel Philip, was killed in
battle with the Parliamentary forces in 1 65 l.f

* O'CallagWs Green Book, p. 319.

f These remarks on the O'Reilly are chiefly gathered from
Dr. Mac Dermott's notes to the Four Masters.

COLONEL EDMUND O'REILLY'S INFANTRY. 927

The Colonel now under consideration was another
son of Colonel Philip, and was popularly stiled 'Ea-
mun Buighe.' He accompanied James the Second
from France to Ireland, and was by that monarch
appointed Governor of the County of Cavan. During
the campaign he fought gallantly for his King at the
Boyne, at Aughrim, and at Limerick. At the time
of the surrender of Galway (July, 1691), Colonel Ed-
mund was in the town with his family ; he was one of
the hostages for its due surrender, and in its articles
of capitulation an especial protection was inserted for
his wife, mother, and family as then resident there :
similar protection being then also given to Lieutenant
Luke Reilly, his brother; and to Philip, with their
respective wives and families, all then likewise in the
town. When the last memorable siege of Limerick
took place, this Colonel was Governor of Lanes-
borough ; where, when Wauchop, the governor of the
Castle of Athlone, learned that De Ginkle intended to
cross, he gave warning to O'Reilly, directing him in
case of any danger to send for the Earl of Antrim's
Regiment, which was ready to advance on the first
signal for Lanesborough, and to drive the English
into the river. Colonel O'Reilly accordingly threw
up strong works in the only accessible part of the
bank at the Connaught side, and De Ginkle's idea
of passing over there was consequently abandoned.*
After the Capitulation of Limerick, he and many of
his own regiment retired with the Irish Brigades to

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 317.

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France, where he died in 1693, leaving by his wife
J oan, daughter of Bryan O'Ferrall of the County of
Longford, an only son Eogan (Owen), who on his
father's decease entered into Dorrington's, afterwards
Dillon's Brigade, married at St. Germain's the daugh-
ter of Colonel Felix O'Neill (who was killed at Augh-
rim), and had a son Edmund O'Eeilly born in 1722 ;
who entered the Brigades in 1739, was a Captain in
Lally's in 1757, in the following year was created a
Knight of St. Louis, in 1763 a Captain in Dillon's
Eegiment, in 1773 ranked as a retired Lieutenant-
Colonel, and was living in Paris at the commencemen
of the French Ee volution.* Besides Colonel Edmund,
Philip Eeilly ranks on this List as a Lieutenant-Colo-
nel in Colonel Art Mac Mahon's Infantry. John
Eeyley of Garrirobuck and this Philip represented the
County of Cavan in the Parliament of 1689. The
former individual raised a Eegiment of Dragoons for
King James's service at his own expense, assisted at
the siege of Derry in the same year, fought afterwards
at the Boyne, and at Aughrim; threw himself into
Limerick, where he was included in the articles of
Capitulation, and thus saved his estate. He remained
in Ireland himself, but his Eegiment was disbanded. f
He lived to the year 1716, when he was buried in the
old church of Kill, in the parish of Crosserlough,
County of Cavan, " where," writes Dr. McDermott,
"still remain his monument and many others comme-

* See fully O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 275, &c.
t Idem, p. 273.

COLONEL EDMUND O'REILLY'S INFANTRY.

929

morating his Sept." His eldest son, Connor O'Keilly,
who also served with distinction in this campaign,
was included in the Articles of Limerick.* O'Conor,
in his Military Memoirs of the Irish Nation (p. 190),
says that after the Surrender of Limerick many of
King James's army took engagements in King Wil-
liam's, " particularly from O'Reilly's, Nugent's, Geogh-
egan's, Burke's, Magennis's, and the three O'Neills',
Cormack's, Felix's, and Gordon's, seduced by the in-
fluence of officers but the whole could not have

exceeded 3,000 men, who, when their companies
embarked for France, received the treatment which
deserters deserve, and usually meet with." On the
Attainders of 1691, appear Philip Oge and Hugh
O'Reilly, who sat for the Borough of Cavan in the
aforesaid Parliament ; Luke, who had been Sheriff of
that County in 1687 ; and twenty-six others of the
name. Dr. McDermott, however, confidently relies that
there are above 20,000 persons of the name yet in
the County of Cavan, and many also in the Counties
of Meath, Longford, and Leitrim. The aforesaid
Hugh O'Eeilly had been a Master in Chancery, was
in 1689 made Clerk of the Privy Council, and sub-
sequently was titular Chancellor for Ireland, as he
would have been the actual, had James succeeded.

In the subsequent Brigades of the Continent, in
France, Austria, and Spain, officers of this great Irish
Sept may be traced, distinguished for their military
service. In the reign of Charles the Third in. Spain,

* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 970.

OOO

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General Count Alexander O'Reilly was a distinguished
officer, and commanded the army of the Pyrenees in
1794, when he fell the victim of poison. He was son
(says Dr. Mc Dermott) of Captain Thomas O'Eeilly of
Baltrasna, by Eosa, daughter of Colonel Luke Mac
Dowel of Mantua, and grandson of the above men-
tioned Colonel John O'Eeilly of Garryrobuck. Many
interesting particulars concerning him may be found
in Swinburne's Travels in Spain, and various histories
of those times. Count Michael Charles Joseph Eeille,
a distinguished General of Cavalry in the French ser-
vice in Buonaparte's campaigns, and at present a Peer
of France, is a descendant of one of the O'Eeillys of
the Irish Brigades.

EEGIMENTS OF INFANTEY.

COLONEL CUCONAUGHT MAC GUIRE.

This Eegiment is not filled on this Army List.
King's State of the Protestants gives, from a sub-
sequent Muster Eoll, Alexander Mac Guire as its
Lieutenant Colonel, and Cornelius Mac Guire its
Major. This Colonel Cuconaught was Sheriff of the
County of Fermanagh in 1687 ; he was killed at the
battle of Aughrim ; his Eegiment, after fighting
most gallantly and successfully 'till towards the close of
the action, was nearly all destroyed, and his Lieuten-

COLONEL CUCON AUGHT MAC GUIRE's INFANTRY. 931

ant-Colonel taken prisoner.* At the Conrt of Claims,
Mary Mac Guire, Colonel Cuconaught's widow,was al-
lowed a jointure off Tempo and other Fermanagh
lands ; as was Bryan Mac Guire a remainder in tail
therein. Dominick ' Magweir,' commonly called
Primate of Ireland, was then also attainted. A
letter in Sleater's Public Gazetteer of 1760,f says
that one of the Mac Guire Sept, quitting Ulster on the
troubles of 1641, retired to the parish of Mc Elligott
near Tralee, and that his grandson passed thence to
Vienna, where he had a kinsman through whose in-
terest he procured a commission for his son in the
Imperial Army. That son " commanded at Dresden,
and was in 1760 Colonel of a Eegiment of Four Batta-
lions, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, and a Lieu-
tenant-General of their Majesty's Imperial Armies.
It is to him and his near kinsman and countryman,
the brave Major General Baron Mac Elligott, who is
indefatigably climbing to military glory, that their
Imperial Majesties are indebted for forming the Croats,
Pandours, and other irregular free-booters into as
regular and well disciplined troops as any others of
their subjects."

* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138.
f Vol. 3, p. 749.

000 2

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KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL WALTER BOURKE'S.

Neither is this force filled on the present Army-
List. To him and his Regiment was entrusted the
defence of the old Castle of Aughrim, on the day of
the last momentous battle there ; while the adjacent
old walls, hedges, and trenches, before and behind the
castle, were guarded by another Regiment of Infantry
and one of Dragoons. In a hollow, still further away
behind the castle, a large or main body of Horse was
stationed, in order to sweep round that building by
the plains to their left, and fall upon any hostile ar-
tillery that might be brought up through the defile to
bear upon the old edifice.* The Colonel was, how-
ever, taken prisoner in the castle, with ten other
officers and forty soldiers — all that remained of the
little garrison. j* To that garrison is referred a tra-
dition, that, in order to supply a deficiency of bullets,
they cut out the buttons of their uniforms, and dis-
charging these buttons and the ramrods of their guns
against the cavalry, they long laboured to retard the
progress of the assailants. On the formation of the
Brigades in France, this Walter Bourke, who was of
the County Mayo Turlough line, was appointed Colo-
nel of what was styled ' the Regiment of Athlone
Owen Mc Cartie was his Lieutenant-Colonel, and Ed-

* Q'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 371.
t Idem, pp. 376 and 452.

COLONEL WALTER BOURKE'S INFANTRY. 933

mund Cantwell his Major.* This Regiment was
distinguished for its services on the Continent, as
before spoken of at the notices of the Duke of Ber-
wick and of Lord Galmoy. At Cremona, in 1703,
" when the rest of the garrison was sunk in licentious-
ness and revelry, the two Regiments of Bourke and
Dillon, stationed near the Po Gate, alone observed
the rigour of military discipline, or were alone found
regularly under arms on parade or at the post as-
signed to them. They had not been corrupted by
example, nor debauched by the luxuries of a country,
in which they were perfect strangers and spoke not
the language, "f In the subsequent conflicts this
Regiment suffered severely, especially in those on the
Retorto in 1705, where it was forced to yield to the
giant arms and mighty strength of the renowned
Guards of William, the first of the Prussian monarchs.
" Crossing the Pendino, however, they rallied behind
underwood and bushes on its banks, took a sure and
deadly aim at these Goliahs, laid hundreds of them
prostrate on the ground, and remained secure, from
the inability of their opponents to return their fire,
their cartouche boxes having been all wet in passing
the Retorto. J This Walter Bourke died a Field
Marshal of France in 1715,§ whereupon his Brigade
went into the Spanish service, and thence into the

* Q'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 199.
t Idem, pp. 242-3.
J Idem, pp. 306-7.

§ O'Callaghan's Macar. Excid. p. 450.

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Neapolitan, in which latter it was distinguished in
Sicily, Africa, and Italy. Taking the name of 1 the
King's Regiment,' it was extended into four batta-
lions ; and O'Conor, in his Military Memoirs (p. 380),
says it still exists at Naples.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL FELIX O'NEILL'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.

The Colonel. _

Con O'Neill,

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Daniel Gilmore. Terence O'Neill.

COLONEL FELIX O'NEILL,

This Colonel Felix was killed at the battle of Augh-
rim.* On his fall, his Regiment, it would appear,
was shaken in discipline and allegiance, and at the 21st
November, 1691, Story has a notice,f which although
the christian name assigned to the Colonel differs
somewhat, yet clearly refers to the above Regiment.
" Near this time, Colonel Phelim O'Neill's Regiment,
being encamped in the County of Kerry, as part of
the Irish designed for France, came over to our side,

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 322.
f Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 285.

COLONEL FELIX O'NEILL'S INFxVNTRY. 935

as several others did daily and again the same
writer says, " Rumours of the ill reception of the first
troops that passed over from Ireland to France
having been circulated, on the 8th of December,
Colonel Mc Dermott's, and Colonel Brian O'Neill's,
and, a day or two after, Colonel Felix O'Neill's, who
were part of the Irish forces designed for France,
quitted the design, and refused to go on board, re-
turning to Clare, where some of them delivered up
their arms to Colonel Tiffin, and went homewards."*

CAPTAIN DANIEL GILMORE.

The G-ilmores, or Mac Gilmores, or more rarely
O'Gilmores, are traced on Irish Annals as possessing
a considerable territory in the County of Down, where
Harris says they were a native Sept, • a strong sort
of people, and always followers to the O'Neills of
Claneboy.'f Yet the name sounds most strikingly of
Danish origin, and it is certain that at the time of the
English Invasion, a family of Mac Gillemory was set-
tled at Waterford, to whom, styling them Ostmen or
Danes, Henry the Second, when he stormed that city,
gave charters of denization, which his son John and his
successor Edward the First confirmed. Conformably
with this opinion, the Four Masters allege that on the
occasion of this siege, ' Gillemaire' was Governor of the

* Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 291.

t History of the County of Down, p. 45.

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remarkable round citadel which still survives, — Regi-
nald's Tower. A short time previous, in 1159, Gil-
lamuire died an anchorite of Armagh. In 1244, when
Henry the Third summoned the 1 Fideles' of Ireland
to assist him in his war against Scotland, ' Mac
Gillemurri' received an especial Royal mandate. In
1276, died Dermot Mac Gillemuire, Lord of Lecale
(in the County of Down). At the dissolution of the
monasteries, James ' Mac Guilmere' was Abbot of
Moville in the Ardes (County of Down), and so
seized of various lands, tithes, chief rents, and advow-
sons, as found by Inquisition, temp. James the First ;
in whose reign the memorable Plantation of Ulster
occurring, this theretofore territorial family was fain
to eke out possession through under-leases from the
new settlers. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny
in 1646, Charles Gilmore was one of the Confederates;
and, whilst Charles the Second was ' beyond the seas/
one of his faithful adherents was Owen 4 Gilmer,' who
is therefore especially marked in the Act of Settle-
ment. The Attainders of 1691 describe the above
Daniel Gilmer as of Bodare, County of Antrim, with
an Owen Gilmor of the same locality, who may be
identical with the above Ensign Owen.

COLONEL HUGH MAC MAHON'S INFANTRY. 937

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL HUGH MAC MAHON'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.
The Colonel. _

Lieutenant-Colonel.

[Christopher Plunkett,

Major.]

Owen Mac Mahon. James M'Gillalkin.

This Regiment is thus deficient in the present Army List. The name of
the Major is supplied from the Appendix to King's State of the Protest-
ants, from which authority also it appeal's that Major Owen Mac Mahon
was, in 1690, the Lieutenant-Colonel. See of this family ante, at Colonel
Art Mac-Mahon.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL DENIS MAC GILLICUDDY'S.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.
The Colonel.

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Major.
John Butler.

COLONEL DENIS MAC GILLICUDDY.

" The name of Mac Gillicuddy," writes the Reve-
rend Mr. Rowan, " is distinct from that of Me Elligot.

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It was in fact originally the distinctive title of the
head of a branch of the O'Sullivans, which after the
the wars of 1641 was more generally assumed by the
members of that branch.'' In accordance with this
construction, when King James the First, in 1605,
made a grant to Theobald Bourk of Castleconnell, of
certain lands in the County of Kerry, they were de-
scribed as c parcel of the estate of Denis Mac Dermott
O'Sullivan, otherwise 4 Mac Gillicuddie,' 4 dead in
rebellion.' It appears from a Book of Obits in
Trinity College, Dublin, MSS. (F. iii. 27) that in
the year 1630 Connor Mac Gillicuddy, of Castle-
carrick, County of Kerry, was shipwrecked and
drowned ; that he had married Joan, daughter of
John Cosby, Bishop of Ardfert, by whom he had issue
Donogh, Daniel, Connor, Catherine, and Ellen ; that
he married a second wife, Sheelah, daughter of Daniel
Oge Cartie of Dingle, in that county, by whom he
had one son, Neal ; and it would seem that the
Donogh, named in the foregoing pedigree as the
eldest son of Connor Mac Gillicuddy by Joan Cosby,
was the Colonel called 4 Denis' on this list. Accord-
ingly, the Sheriff of Kerry in 1687 is named Donogh
Mc Gillicuddy.

COLONEL JAMES PURCELL'S INFANTRY.

939

EEGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

COLONEL JAMES PURCELL.

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns.
The Colonel. _ - --

Lieutenant-Colonel.

Major.

Denis Kelly.

Nothing has been ascertained of this officer.

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.

LORD HUNSDON'S.

j Robert Ingram, 1st. ) T . , , n i i ~1
L John Gifford, 2nd. \ ^tenant-Colonel. J

[Francis Gyles, Major].

This Regiment is wholly unfilled on the Army List.
The names of Ingram, Gifford, and Gyles are given on
the authority of a subsequent Muster Roll, noted in
King's State of the Protestants, Appendix. This
Lord, Sir Robert Carey, became the sixth Baron
Hunsdon on the death of John Carey, the fifth Lord,
without issue ; the latter had also enjoyed the titles
of Viscount Rochfort and Earl of Dover, but these
latter died with him. It appears from an entry in
the Archives of Bruges, preserved there in the Hotel
de Ville, that a Darby 1 Morphy' was, in December,

940

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

1689, appointed by King James a 1 Captain-Lieuten-
ant' in Lord Hunsdon's Infantry. Of the Murphys,
see ante, p. 472, &c.

KEGIMENTS OF INFANTKY NOT FILLED.

COLONEL GAEEET MOOEE'S.
COLONEL PATEICK BOUEKE'S.
1 CAPTAIN' MICHAEL BOUEKE'S.

Wholly unfilled on this List ; and it may be here
mentioned that the Muster Eoll, noticed in the
Appendix to King, mentions Lord Enniskillen also as
Colonel of a Eegiment of Infantry unfilled ; while he
appears on the present List only as a Captain in the
Earl of Antrim's Infantry.

CAPTAIN MICHAEL COEMICK'S.

The Mac Cormicks constituted a Sept of Annaly,
County of Longford, and were also located in
Fermanagh ; while the O'Cormicks were Chiefs of
Down. They branched at an early period into Mayo,
whence William Cormick passed down to Munster to
the war of 1599, and he was one of those who sailed
for Spain with Don Juan de Aguila. In 1607, John
King, of the City of Dublin, granted to Michael Cor-

REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY NOT FILLED. 941

mick of Inismoyne, County of Mayo, various lands
there, which had been the estates of proprietors
recently attainted. The above Captain Michael was
of the Mayo family, and was probably his grandson,
as he is described in the Inquisition for his outlawry,
1 of Euppagh in that county,' where John Cormick, of
Tobber and Ballinrobe, was also attainted.

CAPTAIN HENEY O'NEILL.

He was the grandson of Sir Phelim, the bold insur-
gent leader of 1641.

COLONEL HUGH MAC MAHON'S
DEAGOONS.

Twelve additional Eegiments are given on other
authority, but they appear to have been early dis-
banded, viz. those of Lord Castleconnel, Colonel
Eoger O'Conor, Sir Christopher Geoghegan, Colonel
Marcus O'Donnel, Colonels James Eoth, Eoger O'Ca-
hane, Christopher Kelly, Bryan Mc Dermott, James
Talbot, Ulick Bourke, Sir Edmund Scott, and Myles
Kelly.

942

KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.

INDEPENDENT FUSILIERS.

A Regiment of this service and character was com-
manded by Colonel Francis Toole, and his name
is on the Eoll of Colonels in this Army List, but his
Regiment is not filled. Yery full notices of this Sept
have been given ante, p. 462 ; and of this Colonel
Francis at p. 464. Not until the reign of James the
First was their territory erected into the County of
Wicklow, upon which occasion a large tract, thereto-
fore the absolute estates of Bryan and Phelim O'Toole,
including the manor of Powerscourt, the territory of
Fercullen, &c. was granted, in 1605, to Sir Eichard
Wingfield, ancestor of the noble house of Powerscourt;
while the estates of other O'Tooles were given to
Sir Henry Broncar, Knight, Lord President of Mun-
ster. An information filed in 1661 sets forth also
that the land of Fairtree (Vartrey) was the inherit-
ance of Luke O'Toole, from whom it was seized by the
Crown, and granted to Secretary Coke about the year
1636 ; that the land consisted of 15,441 acres of all
sorts, English measure, is twelve miles from Dublin,
has a castle upon it called 4 Kevin,' and a fine river
full of salmon and trout.

In Clarke's Life of James IL, (vol. 2, p. 400) it is
said that at the battle of the Boyne, Marshal Schom-
berg, while passing the ford, was killed by Sir Charles
O'Toole, an exempt of King James's Guard.

Several of this name were distinguished in the
Irish Brigades in the service of France and Spain.

INDEPENDENT FUSILIERS.

943

COLONEL FRANCIS FIELDING

Commanded a Regiment, as alleged in some reports of
the period ; while that of a Colonel Robert Fielding
was early sent over to France, as was another of
Colonel Richard Butler's on this List.*

COLONEL BRYAN McDEEMOTT.

Very full notices of this ancient and historic Irish
Sept are given in the Annals of Boyle , vol. 1, p. 138,
&c. That this Bryan had the command of a Regi-
ment in 1689 appears, amongst other evidence, from
a Commission which has been seen by the compiler,
purporting to be an appointment from King James
himself, of Paul Davis to 4 the Captaincy of a Com-
pany in the Regiment of Colonel Bryan Mc Dermot
it is dated at Dublin Castle, 21st August, 1689, and
is countersigned, Richard Nagle. In the Inquisition
for the attainder of this officer, he is described as of
Kilronan, County of Roscommon, and hence appears
to have been of the stock of Mc Dermott Roe.

* Appendix to King's State of the Protestants.

APPENDIX.

NOTICES of French and Irish Officers, etc. who

were distinguished in King James's service in this
Campaign, but whose names do not appear upon
the Army List.

FKENCH OFFICEKS.
DE ROSEN.

This gallant individual, with Field Marshal de Mo-
ment as his Lieutenant-General, and Monsieurs Pu-
signan and De Lery, Brigadiers, accompanied King
James in the passage from Brest to Kinsale. Early
in the campaign, he, with De Moment and De Lery,
triumphantly crossed the river at the pass of Lifford,
with only two troops of Horse, one of Dragoons, and
eighty of King James's Infantry Guards, in front of
an entrenched enemy ten times their number ; who
fled at the first discharge, as Mr. O'Callaghan writes*
and were pursued with fatal execution for three or

* Green Book, p. 260.

FRENCH OFFICERS.

945

four miles. De Rosen was afterwards engaged with
General Hamilton at the siege of Deny. He had
been recommended by Louis the Fourteenth to James
to serve under Tyrconnel ; but the latter, according
to Colonel O'Kelly, could not endure him, " in regard
that he was more knowing in war than the Captain-
General." He was consequently sent back to France.
The Duke of Berwick, in his Memoir, says that his
recal was a satisfaction ; and while he speaks of him
as " an excellent officer, very brave and zealous, but
not fitted to command an army," he adds that James
never contradicted him in any thing ; a submission
which he laments, as that " it had been happy perhaps
if the King in the course of his life had followed his
own judgment more."* De Rosen, in some years
after his return to France (1703), was made a Mar-
shal ; but failing to obtain a command, he retired to
his estate in Alsace, where he died in 1714, at the
advanced age of eighty-seven.f

DE LAUZUN.

He was early in life the favourite of Louis the Four-
teenth, and the accepted lover of that monarch's
cousin, the Princess de Montpensier, whose hand he
had " the effrontery to seek from the King, and to
request that their marriage should take place with

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 387.
| O'Callaghan's Mac. Excid. p. 336.

PPP

946

APPENDIX.

Royal magnificence." The King indignantly refused,
but afterwards, " despite this impertinence, offered to
forget the past, and to make him Duke Marshal of
France and Governor of Provence, provided he would
give up his pretensions to the lady. This De Lauzun
declined in a manner so provoking, that the King
cast him into prison in the Castle of Pignerol, where
he remained some years ; until the Princess, who had
already married him, bribed the Duke of Mayence
with the Principality of Dombes to obtain his release.
He made his escape to England, and there it was
that, on the eve of the abdication, King James con-
fided to his care the Queen and Prince of Wales,
when their removal to France was resolved upon. It
was considered, and not unwisely, that " under the
notion of the Count de Lauzun returning to his own
country, a yacht might be prepared for him, and the
Queen and Prince pass unsuspected in his company."*
He it was whom afterwards Louis the Fourteenth
appointed to the command of the Yeterans (5,000
men) who were sent over from France, in exchange
for those young Irish soldiers of the same number
coming thither under Lord Mountcashel. In the
summer of 1689, De Lauzun was appointed to super-
sede Rosen, and with this force he arrived in Ireland
some months before the landing of King William.
The English fleet being then engaged attending the
Queen of Spain, facilitated the transporting of the
French auxiliaries. Immediately on his landing,

* Clarke's Life of James II. vol. 2, p. 244.

FRENCH OFFICERS.

947

Lauzun came to Dublin, with his forces well armed
and clothed, "upon which occasion," writes Story,*
" the possession of the city and castle was given to
him, whom alone the French acknowledged to serve,

and not King James His authority bore the

double character of Captain and Ambassador." In
the Southwell Manuscripts was an " original order of
the Count Lauzun, as Commander in Chief of the
French forces, forbidding their taking any thing but
what they paid for, and also prohibiting their molest-
ing Protestant assemblies."

He it was who, after the defeat at the Boyne, ad-
vised King James " to take his own * Regiment of
Horse and some Dragoons, and make the best of his
way to Dublin ; for fear the enemy, who was so strong
in Horse and Dragoons, should make detachments and
get thither before him, which he was confident they
would endeavour to do : but that, if his Majesty ar-
rived there first, he might, with the troops he had
with him and the garrison he found there, prevent
their possessing themselves of the town, till Monsieur
Lauzun himself could make the retreat, which he
prayed him to leave to his conduct, and advised him
not to remain at Dublin either, but to go with all ex-
pedition for France."f On that King's departure,
De Lauzun joined Tyrconnel in " assembling the great-
est part of the army : and retired towards Limerick,

* O'Callaghan's Macariae Excidium, p. 353.
f Story's Impart. Hist. p. 65.

ppp 2

948

APPENDIX.

still struggling with ill fortune and universal wants."*
On his inspection of Limerick and its fortifications, he
is said in Colonel O'Kellys narrative to have de-
clared it untenable, and under that impression he
withdrew his forces from the place, taking with him
a great quantity of ammunition, but was afterwards
induced to return. " The Irish," says the Colonel,
" had good reason to be dissatisfied with the proceed-
ings of him and his French troops ; for, in lieu of as-
sistance and encouragement, they daily disheartened
the people ; and the irregularities they committed in
their march and quarters were so exorbitant, that it
must needs alienate from them the hearts of the
Irish."f After King William abandoned his siege of
Limerick, De Lauzun accompanied Tyrconnel to
France, where it is said King Louis wrould have put
him in prison, but for the intercession of James the
Second and his Queen. After the death of his wife
the Princess, he married the daughter of Marshal de
Lorges, by whom he had no issue. " The King of
England," adds the Duke of Berwick, in his Memoirs,
(p. 81, &c), " conferred upon him the Order of the
Garter." Saint- Simon speaks of him as a good friend
and a 1 willing' enemy ; and O'Conor, in his Military
Memoirs, with more perspicuity describes him as a
Gascon by birth and disposition, " devoid of military
talents, who had pushed himself into favour at Ver-
sailles by tact and address, till, no more than a min-

* Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 414.
t O'Callaglian's Excid. Mac. p. 65.

FRENCH OFFICERS.

949

ion of Louis the Fourteenth, he had such credit at
Court, that he was able to treat the ministers and
mistresses with the utmost hauteur. Aspiring to
marry the King's niece, he fell into disgrace and was
confined for years ; but, having afterwards regained
the King's favour, he was sent to command in Ireland,
where he showed neither resolution nor capacity. At
the Boyne, with 20,000 men, he ventured an engage-
ment with 45,000, though he had no advantage but
a river in front, passable, however, for both Infantry
and Cavalry."*

THE MARQUIS DE PUSIGNAN.

When (as before mentioned ante, p. 20) King
James, on his arrival in Dublin, 24th March, 1689,
ordered Berwick northward to the Ban, to strengthen
General Richard Hamilton, he directed Pusignan,
with a select body of Irish Cavalry and Infantry and
two eight field pieces, to advance in the same direc-
tion by Charlemont and Dungannon, along the west
of Lough Neagh and the Ban ; and, by sweeping
away all intervening opposition, to open a communi-
cation through Portglenone Bridge with Hamilton
and Berwick ; who, favoured by this movement, were
to respond by attempting to cross the river at that
point. By this plan, if successful, the enemy should

* O'Conor's Milit Mem. p. 106.

950

APPENDIX.

abandon Coleraine to Hamilton and Berwick, to avoid
being cut off from Derry through Pusignan's advance
towards that town, after contributing to Hamilton's
and Berwick's success at Portglenone. Early in
April, Pusignan cleared with rapid slaughter Money-
more, Magherafelt, Dawson's Bridge, Balloghy, New
Ferry, and, in short, all the passes on the left of the
Ban leading to Coleraine, as far as Portglenone.
There, though the bridge had been burnt and the pass
guarded by the redoubt, the river had in the mean
time been crossed by the Irish officers and their
troops, in the face of the enemy.* On the 14th of
April following, when King James in his northern
march came to Omagh, he found Pusignan's Infantry
there, left under the command of Colonel Eamsey ;
while Pusignan himself had gone on with the Horse
and Dragoons some six miles further to Newtown-
Stewart, which the enemy had quitted, as well as
Omagh, at the King's approach. Pusignan was killed
at Derry ; where also

DE POINTEE.

The great Engineer on the Irish side, was wounded
and soon after died.

* O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 260.

FRENCH OFFICERS.

051

CHEVALIER DE TESSE.

He came over to Ireland with Monsieur D'Usson
early in May, 1691, in the equipment of St. Ruth,
who gave him command of the right wing of his
Horse at the battle of Aughrim. De Tesse and
D'Usson were afterwards parties to the military
articles of Limerick, which the former signed as one
of the Commanders in Chief of the Irish army. In
1702, a Marquis de Tesse was engaged against
Prince Eugene in the campaign of Piedmont ;* while
M. le Chevalier de Tesse ranked as a Brigadier and
Field-Marshal in France under brevet of 7th March,
1704.

MONSIEUR D'USSON.

After the fatal clay of Aughrim, D'Usson " had much
ado to keep the rapparees, that came thence, from
mutinying, until he promised them that if a supply of
money, ammunition, and provisions came not from
France in twelve days, he would dismiss them."f In
the mean time, according to King James's Memoir, J
he and the other French officers generously declared
that what money they had of their own, amounting

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 240.

f Diary in Harleian Misc. v. 7, p. 484.

I Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 4G2.

952

APPENDIX.

to 50,000 livres, should be distributed amongst the
soldiers. On the 26th of July, D'Usson, being Lieu-
tenant-General in Galway, surrendered the town to
the besiegers, the garrison marching thereout and
the English entering. D'Usson himself came to the
English camp, and, " after staying there about half an
hour (writes Story), he had a guard thence for his
person to conduct him towards Limerick." At the
last siege of that place, on Tyrconnel's death, he as-
sumed the command, and it is attributed to his hasty
order, that the Mayor closed the gates against the
gallant Colonel Lacy, whereby that officer and his
followers were cut down, as before related ante, p. 39.
O'Conor, who in his Military Memoirs (p. 167),
makes this charge against D'Usson, roundly attributes
to his mistakes (which, however, he admits were
more the results of indolence than of want of spirit),
most of the disasters of this campaign.

ST. EUTH.

His early life and achievements, when Lieutenant-
General of the French army in Savoy, are alluded to
ante, at Lord Mountcashel's Infantry, p. 493, &c. and
are very fully detailed in O'Conor's Military Memoirs,
(p. 100, &c). When the King of France sent
the scanty and long deferred aid to Ireland, he is re-
ported to have said of this, his Lieutenant-General,
with whom the supply was sent to a suffering — a des-

FRENCH OFFICERS.

953

pairing nation, " whatever he, a Captain of great con-
duct and experience," (and whom he recommended to
command the Irish army) "after arriving there, and
informing himself upon the place, should judge neces-
sary for the work, he (Louis) would not fail in des-
patching it to Ireland."* On the 8th of May, 1691,
as before mentioned, he arrived in Limerick, the siege
of the Irish town having already commenced, bring-
ing with him 146 officers, 150 cadets, 300 English
and Scotch, 24 surgeons, 180 masons, 2 bombardiers,
18 cannoniers, 800 horses, 19 pieces of cannon,
12,000 horse-shoes, 6,000 bridles and saddles, 16,000
muskets, uniforms, stockings and shoes for 16,000
men, some lead and balls, and a large supply of bis-
cuit."! On the 20th of June following, having re-
ceived advice that the English town of Athlone was
besieged (the siege at the Irish side had commenced
before), he " advanced with a body of Horse and Foot,
and encamped within a convenient distance of the
Irish town," which he thought De Ginkle could not
take. But his own over-confidence facilitated the
event ; it was taken on the last day of that month.
On this defeat, St. Euth retired to Ballinasloe, and
there held a council of war, where, by the influence of
Sarsfield's opinion and that of the majority of the
Jacobite officers, it was resolved to offer battle on
ground that seemed advantageous to the Irish, at

* O'Callaghan's Macar. Excid. p. 95.

t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 134, citing Quincy, the Historian
of Louis XIV.

054:

APPENDIX.

Aughrini, three miles beyond Ballinasloe. De Ginkle's
army came in sight of this place on the 12th of July ;
the battle was joined without delay, and continued
from noon to sunset ; at which time the victory seem-
ed with the Irish, when a cannon ball felled St. Ruth,
and the Irish Cavalry thereupon gave way and quitted
the field, the flower of their army and nation having
been lost there that day, with the Dynasty in whose
service they fought. The spot where St. Ruth fell is
traditionally marked by a white thorn bush, while on
the southern slope of the hill are yet traces of an old
burial ground, in which it is said his body was first
interred, but afterwards removed to Athenry. Story
says he never could learn what became of St. Ruth's
corse. He fell at the critical minute, when he was
avowedly about to lead a charge of cavalry down the
hill of Kilcommoden against the advancing enemy.
" Impartial posterity," writes O'Conor,* must do justice
to St. Ruth ; he considered the Irish an injured and
oppressed people, martyrs to their religion and victims
to loyalty, and he devoted to their cause all the
energies of his mind and body. He had not been in
Ireland ten weeks, and his activity during that period
in collecting the scattered troops, in organizing them,
and providing them with necessaries, had scarcely ad-
mitted intermission for the needful rest which exhaust-
ed nature required." And here it seems desirable
to introduce a Report and List of the killed and
wounded on that memorable day, as far as ascertained

* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 138.

BATTLE OF AUGHRIM.

and drawn up in Dublin five days after, by William
Neave ; and by him forwarded to " The Right Honor-
able Lord 4 Leansborough,' at his house in Leicester-
street, cross ' Swolow'-street, near 1 Picadilly,' London.

" It is variously reported what common soldiers the
Irish have lost ; some letters say 10,000, but none
less than 6,000 ; and most of the lists of the officers
differ, but agree in substance. Our army have been
mustered since they fought, and on the Muster Rolls,
&c, it appears 337 of our men, officers and all, are
killed, and 781 wounded. There never was a greater
action than this ; the enemy being placed on a rising
ground, and a bog and river before them, and an old
castle on the right wing, with a narrow ' causey' ;
over which bog and river we attacked them, they
having several passes before we came to their camp,
which we were forced to beat them from ; and three
trenches, one after another, just before their camp,
when we were over the river ; and they one third
part more in number, besides Rapparees, all advan-
tages, with the ' charms' of St. Ruth (who all letters
give as killed). Their priests made them stand to it
now better than ever. We have all Connaght now,
but Galway and Lymerick, to the last of which ten of
our men of war (five English and five Dutch), as also
two frigates, three fire ships, and one bomb-ship are
gone, there being several French merchant ships
there. It is all the talk of this place that the late
Judge Daly is come to our General, to treat for some
of the Irish, and that on to-morrow Galway and

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APPENDIX.

Lymerick will be given up : it is certain a Proclama-
tion of pardon of estate and all did issue to those that
should cause other of their towns to be surrendered,
or bring in a Eegiment, or do such like considerable
service, and that they had till the 28th of this
month to do the same ; but it is not 4 publique' in
this city, though 4 publique' in our army. The
Smirna fleet is gone from 4 Kingsale' under convoy of
our great fleet, and our army were yesterday morning
but fourteen miles from Galway, and will be this

night before that place." " My Lord," concludes

Neave, " I did think this might be acceptable, and,
not having time, caused my man to transcribe it. I
believe generally it is a true account. My Lord of
Meath sends 4 mee' word my 4 cosen' James Brabazon
is wounded in the leg : I have no more that is con-
siderable at present.

" I am, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most humble servant,
" William Neave.
" Twenty-five out of each company of the militia of
this city went this day to meet and fetch in the pri-
soners, colours, standards, &c. that were taken."

BATTLE OF AUGHRDI.

957

A LIST OF THE CONSIDERABLE IRISH OFFICERS KILLED
AND TAKEN AT AUGHRIM, JULY 12, 1691.

In the Provost's Hands.

Colonel Walter Botirke.
Lieut. -Col. John Baggot.
Lieut. -Col. John Brudieu.
Major- General Bourke.
Major Edward Butler.
9 Captains.
198 private men.

Prisoners not wounded Officers killed on the Field,
nor in the Provost's Hands.

In the hands of the Dutch

Provost.
Lieut. -Col. Chapell.
Lieut. -Col.Murt M'Gennis.
Major Henry Kelly.
Major Lawless.
2 J 7 private men.

Major General Dorrington,
now in Dublin Castle.

Lord Slane.

Lord Kilmaine.

Lord Bophin.

Colonel Butler.

Colonel Grace.

Lord Baltimore's son.

Col. Butler of Killeagh.

Lieut.-Col. Butler his
brother.

Colonel Dan. O'Neill.

Colonel Cormuek O'Neill.

Colonel Bellew.

Colonel Madden.

Prisoners that are wounded. Prisoners died of their

Major John Hamilton.
Brigadier Tuite.
Lord Bellew.
Colonel O'Connell.
Colonel Gordon O'Neill.
Lieut.-Col. Roberts.
Lieut.-Col. Fitz-Patrick.

wounds.
Lord Galway.
Brigadier Barker.
Colonel Moore.
Lieut.-Col. Baggot.
Lieut.-Col. Morgan.
Major Arthur.

Lord Dillon.

Lord Kilmallock.

Lord Roche.

Colonel Marks Talbot.

Colonel Oxburgh.

Colonel Purcel.

Col. Cucbonaght M'Guire.

Col. Felix O'Neill, late

Master of Chancery.
Colonel Massey.
Colonel Mulledy.
Colonel Delahide.
Colonel

Inferior Officers, §c.
27 Captains.
31 Lieutenants.
20 Ensigns.

4 Cornets.

5 Quarter-Masters.
1 Adjutant.

31 Colours.
1 1 Standards.
1 Kettle drum.

9 Cannon All their

tents, bag, and bag-
gage."

958

APPENDIX.

IRISH OFFICERS, 4c.

EDWARD CHEEVEES, COMMONLY CALLED
MOUNT LEINSTER.

The name of 1 Chevyr' is of record in Ireland from
the time of Edward the Second. In 1356, Richard
' Chever' was seized of lands in the County of Kil-
kenny ; in 1435, William Cheevers was appointed
Second Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, &c.
The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Walter
and Thomas Cheevers of Monkstown, County of
Dublin ; while, in 1646, Arthur Cheevers of Bally-
sisken, County of Wexford (who appears to have
been an immediate ancestor of the Viscount Mount
Leinster), was one of the Confederate Catholics
assembled at the Supreme Council of Kilkenny.
Walter Cheevers was in 1676 transplanted to Con-
naught, and was the founder of the family of Killyan
in the County of Gal way. In 1689, a Captain
Cheevers was killed at the siege of Derry. In the
same year, immediately before the meeting of the
Parliament of Dublin, the above Edward was created
Viscount Mount Leinster, and the Civil Articles of
Limerick (October, 1691) contained a clause that he,
' Cheevers of Maystown, commonly called Mount
Leinster,' with other officers therein named whose
Regiments were beyond the seas, should have the
benefit of the articles, provided they returned within
eight months of the date, submitted to their Majesties'

IRISH OFFICERS.

959

government, and took the oath of allegiance, as before
mentioned at Colonel Simon Luttrel. The other
Cheeverses attainted in that year were Christopher
John, Patrick, Robert, and James Cheevers of
Carnstown, within the Liberties of Drogheda, Paul
Cheevers of Wexford, Peter of Tomcoole, and Arthur
Cheevers of Aclamstown in the latter county. The
attainted Christopher was seized of various lands
within the Liberty of Drogheda, which were pur-
chased in 1703 from the Commissioners for Sale
of the Forfeitures, by Alderman John Graham of
Drogheda, by John Newton of Drogheda, and by
Charles Campbell of Dublin ; while Alderman John
Leigh of Drogheda purchased certain chiefries in the
Counties of Louth and Meath, also the estate of said
Christopher.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILLIAM TUITE.

Richard de Tuite, the founder of this family in Ire-
land, came over hither with Strongbow ; and obtained
by the interference of that leader, and by his own
valour, ' fair possessions' in Teffia. When Meath, the
mensal demesne of the Irish Kings, was erected into a
Palatinate, this Richard became a Palatine Peer, by
the title of Baron of Moyashill, which he transmitted to
his posterity. Lie was killed in 1211 by the fall of a
tower in Athlone, and buried in the Cistercian Abbey
near Granard, which himself had previously founded,

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APPENDIX.

and where he had also raised a frontier Castle. The
Lords Howth in early time held the manor of Kilbar-
rock, under the Barons de Tuite.* The son of the
first Baron, Richard de Tuite the younger, marched
in 1232 under the standard of William de Lacy into
Upper Brefney, against the O'Reillys, by whose Sept,
however, the invaders were defeated with great loss ;
Richard de Tuite and Simon de Lacy being amongst
the wounded. In 1244, Richard had military sum-
mons to a Royal expedition against the Scots.
According to the Four Masters, he (styled the Great
Baron) was killed in 1289 near Athlone, by the
resistance of the O'Melaghlin. John de Tuyt, a
nephew of Richard, had summons to serve with King
Edward in 1302 in the war of Scotland ; and he, dying
soon after, was succeeded by his son, who sat in the
Parliament of 1310 as a Palatine Knight, was in
1311 required to attend that of Kilkenny, and in six
years after was commanded to continue his exertions
for the defence of Ireland against the enemy. In 1318,
he was one of the officers under John de Berming-
ham, when that leader marched out the King's power
against Edward Bruce at Dundalk ; in 1323, he was
ordered to attack and pursue Roger de Mortimer in
the event of his taking refuge in Ireland ;f in the
following year he was summoned to the defence of
Aquitaine, and in 1325 again sat as a Peer in Parlia-
ment. John de Tuite, Lord of Sonnagh, sat in that of

* Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 137.
y Parliamentary Writs.

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961

1333, and in two years after was knighted. Sir Thomas
Tuite of Sonnagh was in 1373 and subsequently sum-
moned to great Councils and Parliaments. Andrew
Tuite was one of the great men of the Pale, who
signed the memorable memorial in favour of Lord
Furnival in 1417. In 1556, Thomas Tuite of
Sonnagh, and other Tuites representing the lines of
Baltrasna and Monilea, were summoned to appear in
person with their men and horses at a General Host-
ing against an expected invasion of the Scots in the
North of Ireland. In 1622, Oliver Tuite of Sonnagh
was created a Baronet, a title which still exists in his
lineal heir male. They, and the other members of the
Tuite family, distinguished themselves by their attach-
ment to the Stuart Dynasty, and suffered severely for
that allegiance. In the confiscations of 1641 alone,
they lost most extensive tracts in the Counties of
Longford, Meath, and Westmeath ; which were dis-
tributed to Lord Wharton, Robert Cooke, and many
other patentees.

In the clause of wordy thanks from Charles the
Second for services beyond the seas, three members of
this family are included, Captain Jasper Tuite, Lieu-
tenant Harry Tuite, and Ensign William Tuite. The
last appears identical with the above Brigadier-Gene-
ral, and was the son of Edmund Tuite of Tuitestown,
by Mary, daughter of the aforesaid Sir Oliver Tuite,
Baronet. He had a brother, Walter Tuite of Monilea,
who served in the same army with the Brigadier, and
was attainted with bim in 1691. Walter married

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APPENDIX.

Margaret, daughter of David O'More of Port Allen in
the Queen's Comity, by whom he had thirteen sons,
eleven of whom fell in the campaign of 1691, leaving
but two survivors to continue that line.* Brigadier-
General William was taken prisoner at Aughrim,f
and with him were attainted in 1691 six others of
this name.

FITZ-WILLIAMS, VISCOUNT MEKRION.

He is classed as on the Roll of the Peers in King
James's Parliament, but the word 4 sat' not being
affixed to his name, it may be presumed he did not
appear ; neither is he found in the Outlawries of that
period. A solitary notice of his Lordship appears in
the Diary preserved in the Harleian Miscellany (vol.
7, p. 483, old ed.). It says, "1691, 1st September,
Brigadier Levison, having learned where the Lord
Merrion's and the Lord Brittas's Horse were, marched
towards them, and by one o'clock in the morning fell
in with them, killed a great number, cutting off
several entire troops, very few escaping ; and taking
the Lord Castleconnell's Lady and divers others pri-
soners, as also a good prey of cattle."

* Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 3, p. 27, n.
t Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 137.

IRISH OFFICERS. 963

BRIGADIER JOHN WAUCHOP.

This officer, Colonel O'Kelly says, " was a Scotchman
by birth, but zealous enough for the Roman Catholic
religion, and also seemed no less concerned for the
Irish interest." It is probable if he Avas not the son,
he was a near relative of James Wauchop, described
as ' of Ballygraphen,' and one of a batch to whom, on
the Plantation of Ulster, King James in 1618 granted
" freedom from the yoke of the servitude of the Scotch
or Irish nation, with liberty to enjoy all the rights and
privileges of English subjects." That single patent of
denization introduced into Ulster no less than one
hundred and one families. Early in the campaign,
Wauchop served with Colonel Edmund (Buy)
O'Reilly in Cavan, particularly at the battle of Tulla-
mongan Hill, over Cavan. He was Governor of the
Castle of Athlone at the time of its memorable siege.
When the capitulation of Limerick was necessitated,
at the close of September, 1691, Brigadier Wauchop
and Sarsfield came into the English camp to settle the
heads of the proposed articles of surrender, and to
arrange the exchange of hostages. * In the care and
responsibility of embarking the voluntary exiles on
the ensuing heart-rending occasion, Wauchop was also
associated with Sarsfield, see ante, p. 139, &c. yet
were not their patriotism and good repute unassailed
on this occasion. A memorial was published in 1694,

* Harleian Misc. v. 7, p. 488.

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964

APPENDIX.

entitled The Groans of Ireland, and attributed to

O'Neill, i the chief of an ancient family of Ireland;'
it was dedicated to King William, and contained the
most bitter invectives against these individuals, as the
authors of the personal miseries experienced by the
Irish, who followed with them the fortunes of King
James into France. This document would insinuate
that Wauchop and Sarsfield but sought to build their
own fortunes in France upon the ruins of the exiled
Irish. " Alas !" says this accuser, " it is a miserable
sight to see the condition the poor gentlemen are in ;
and the women and children, invited to go along with
their husbands, are now begging their bread from
door to door, and cannot get it. I saw Lieutenants,
Ensigns, and sub-Lieutenants, who were Lieutenant-
Colonels, Majors and Captains in Ireland, that were
forced to turn off their wives, to shun a misery equal
to that of the last campaign ; and I know others, who
saw not their children since they came to France, and
they know not whether they live in misery or were
starved to death ; for when they were reduced in
France to four-pence per day, they were obliged to
leave their children to the wide world.*"

O'CONOR, indeed, in his Military Memoirs of the Irish
Nation, draws a not less sad and more reliable picture of
their sufferings. " These brave men (he writes) were

* Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 236.

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965

now to experience the caprices of new masters. Their
original formation, as they had at first been raised by
their respective Colonels, Avas no longer recognised.
Regiments were reduced, and considerable and many
brave officers and men of rank, who had raised regi-
ments at home at the sacrifice of the last remains of
their estates, found themselves reduced to the rank
of subordinates in other corps,... and many were left

without commissions to serve as volunteers Sir

Neal O'Neal had raised a Regiment of Dragoons ;
Gordon, Henry and Felix O'Neal three Regiments of
Infantry ; Edmund (Buy) O'Reilly of Cavan, Arthur
Oge Mac Mahon of Monaghan, Magennis of Down,
Oliver O'Gara of Coolavin, Connell O'Donnell of
Tyrconnel, Roger O'Cahane of Donegal, Cuconaght
Maguire of Enniskillen, Hugh O'Ruarc of Brefney had
also respectively raised Regiments of Foot ; all of
which were incorporated with others, without any
regard to the rank, sacrifices, services, or destitutions
of their Colonels. The soldiers endured the greatest
hardships and privations. They had made these sacri-
fices to their King and country ; and, when their officers
and great men were deserting, true to their colours and
faithful to their engagements, had never swerved from
the fidelity they had sworn to ; and now, following the
fortunes of their King, they submitted to what the
service required in exile and adversity. Noble and
generous men taken from humblest life, you want but
an historian to rescue your fame from the calumnies of

966

APPENDIX.

your conquerors, and to elevate you to a level with the
soldiers of the Republics of antiquity !"*

Story says of the departure of these patriot emi-
grants, " That which they call the Royal Regiment,
being then 1400 men, seemed to go all entire, which
the General (Ginkle) was much concerned at. Then
Lord Iveagh's Regiment of Ulster came off entire to
our side, as did also Colonel Wilson's, and about half
Lord Louth's, and a great many out of most other regi-
ments. Brigadier Clifford, Colonel Henry Luttrell,
and Colonel Purcell all appeared averse to the going
for France. The following day, Lord Iveagh's,
Colonel Wilson's, part of Lord Dillon's, Colonel
Hussey's, and other Irish Regiments were mustered
nigh the General's Quarters, making 1046 men in
these days, besides double the number that had passes
to go home ; all of whom were plentifully supplied
with provisions, as the General was resolved to do all
things possible to prevent the Irish going in so great
numbers out of the Kingdom, as being a strengthening
our adversaries The Earl of Lucan and Major-
General Wauchop engaged for the due supply and
appropriation of the shipping, and the return of the
transports, while Colonel Hugh Mac Mahon, Colonel

* O'Conors Milit. Mem. p. 1 94, &c. Besides Mr. O'Conor's
work, which terminates at the peace of Utrecht in 1711, Mon-
sieur de Ponce has published in France an " Essay on Ancient
Ireland, and on the Irish Brigades in the service of France since
their organization in 1691 and the first volume of Mr. O'Cal-
laghan's valuable researches on these gallant emigrants appeared
last year.

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967

Robert Arthur, and Colonel O'Gara were left as host-
ages for the due performance of the agreements on the

part of the emigrants On the 16th of October

there marched out of Limerick Sir Maurice Eustace's
Regiment, Major-General Talbot's, Lord Bellew's,
Prince of Wales's (so Story styles F it z- James's), Lord
Clanricarde's, and Colonel Bermingham's ; yet they
made in all only 618 men."* On the succeeding
11th and 12th January, "Orders and instructions
issued for breaking up the Irish army, retaining no
more than 1400 men to be employed at present, and
those to be divided into two battalions, to be com-
manded by Colonel Wilson and Baldearg O'Donnell."

In the Appendix to King's State of the Protestants,
p. 88, &c, is an exceedingly interesting " List of all
the men of note that came with King James out of
France, or that followed him after, as far as can be
collected ;" and who can look upon this venerable
'hatchment' of chivalrous cavaliers, without feeling
sympathy for their fate ? They devoted their pro-
perty, their lives, their estates of old ancestral in-
heritance, to the already fallen fortunes of the Stuart.
They clung to James as their rightful king ; they
held a faith opposed to that of his rival, a faith which
their descendants still possess ; they were removed
from the feelings that in England invited a dynasty
of foreigners to the vacant throne ; they identified
their country with the race and religion of James ;
they gathered their septs, their sons, their soldiers to

* Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 201.

968 DEPARTURE FROM LIMERICK.

the awful struggle. Youth inspired their hopes ; re-
ligious enthusiasm assured their success ; yet the
foregoing volume evinces the fatuity, the fatality of
their expectations. The details of its Regiments wear
a melancholy interest ; they are as ship lists of noble
passengers and crews, that have long since perished in
the stormy waters ; nor did the calamities of their
race close with their immolation. Forfeitures, ex-
patriation, religious persecution rapidly ensued, and
have at this day scarcely left a trace of — the ancient
aristocracy of Ireland.

THE END.

INDEX OF NAMES AND FAMILIES.

Adams, 370.
Allen, 7, 29.
Ankitell, 687.
Archbold, 7, 38, 274, &c.
Archdeacon, 340, &c.
Archer, 31, 856.
Armstrong, 284, 314.
Arthur, 7, 8, 30, 61, 186, 420, &c,
957.

Arundel, 12, 447, &c.

Asgill, 207, 444.

Ash, 856.

Athy, 863.

McAuliffe, 836, &c.

McAwley, 600, &c.

Aylmer, 8, 34, 179, &c, 425, 919.

Aylward, 574, &c.

Babe, 32.
Babington, 446.

Bagnall, 7, 30, 814, 819, 825, &c,
865.

Bagot, 8, 30, 32, 405, 800, &c, 957.
Baker, 127, 407.
Balfe, 7.

Barker, 415, 420, 572, 957.
Barnewall, 7, 10, 11, 31, 44, 45, 110,

&c, 277, 269, 315, 350, 578, 739,

924.
Barrett, 865, &c.
Barron, 809, &c.

Barry, 8, 209, 288, 384, &c, 487,

526, 870, 895, 957.
Bathe, 454, &c.
Beatagh, 90, &c.
Bedford, 339.
Begg, 293, &c.

Bellew, 7, 11, 12, 31, 32, 120, 220,

263, 278, 537, 627, &c, 697, 814

815, 870, 957, 967.
Bennett, 382.
Berford, 732, 733.

Bermingham, 37, 109, 525, &c, 967.
Berry, 215.

Berwick, Duke of, 19, &c, 37, 50, 56,
71, 135, 136, 142, 242, 318, 409,
417, 418, 478, 517, 523, 589, 681,
682, 853, 916.

Bingham, 139, 671.

Binns, 704.

Blake, 28, 36, 602, &c., 611.
Blanch ville, 31, 808.
Blenerhasset, 291, 292, 668.
Bodkin, 36, 766, &c.
Bohilly, 342.

Boiseleau, 38, 135, 747, &c, 815.
Bolger, 804, &c.
Bond, 38.
Boyd, 537.
Boyton, 34.

Brabazon, 92, 604, &c., 956.
Bray, 694, &c.
Brennan, 450, 811.
Brett, 8, 37.
Brice, 294.
Bridgman, 881.

Browne, 7, 11, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37,
186, 236, 242, 244, 288, 292, 324,
325, 379, 399, 400, 417, 585, 601,
634, &c, 758, 834, &c, 857, &c,
865, 919, 957.

Bruce, 166, 167.

O'Bryan, 6, 7, 12, 30, 34, 94, 153,
155, 186, 204, 230, 266, 273, 281,
290, 311, &c, 330, 347, 417,469,
478, 492, 521, 610, 755, 814, 815,
852, 865, 870, 874, 886.

Bulkeley, 27, 315, 478.

Burke, 6, 7, 10, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 32, 36, 37, 59, 142, 220,
248, 281, 288, 291, 296, 320, 330,

970

INDEX.

364, 416, 417, 51 L, &c, 529, 559,
567, 588, 589, 610, 617, 618, 658,
765, 768, 870, 888, 91 L, 929, 932,
&c, 938, 940, 941, 957, 962, 967.

Burnell, 350.

Burton, 245, 372, 516.

Bushe, 199, 206.

Butler, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 24, 31,
32, 44, 47, 59, 72, 73, 93, 96, &c,
128, 151, 152, 184, 212, 219, 239,
247, 264, 288, 416, 492, 526, 579,
581, 589, 685, 688, 806, &c, 815,
816, 957.

O'Byrne, 28, 31, 32, 203, 324, 429,
&c.

Caddon, 801, 802.

Q'Cahane orKyan, 532, 652, 657, &c,

659, 662, 941, 965.
O'Callaghan, 12, 408, 866, &c.
Callanan, 854.
Cantwell, 7, 34, 245, 933.
Carew, 208.
Carey, 871, &c, 939.
Carr, 912.

Carroll, 10, 14, 28, 263, 278, &c,

364, 374, &c, 815, 898.
Carter, 641.
Casliel, 7.
Casinone, 94.
Cassidy, 35.
Casy, 215.

Cavenagh, 28, 676, &c, 683.

Chamberlain, 14.

Chapell, 711, 957.

Cheevers, 11, 32, 298, 347, 958.

Clancy, 341, &c, 449.

Clayton, 1 1.

O'Clery, 674, 675.

Clements, 35, 656.

Clifford, 71, 243, 356, &c, 815, 966.
Clinch, 481, 723.
Clinton, 7.
Cogan, 753, &c.

Mac Coghlan, 268, 269, 364, &c.
Colclough, 8, 28, 32, 139.
Coleman, 474.
Collins, 403.

Comerford, 128, 129, 130, 561, &c.
Cornyn, 882, &c.
Condon, 497, &c.

O'Connell, 1 1, 645, 668, 876, &c, 957.
O'Connolly, 820.

O'Conor and O'Connor, 28, 29, 266,
268, 279, 281, 311, 392, 393, 608,
609, 610, 776, &c, 790, 941.

Corny or Conroy, 778, 779, &c.

Conway, 291, 292, 666, &c.

Convngham, 70, 218, 644.

Cooke, 28, 124.

Cooshene, 868.

Coppinger, 388, &c, 900.

Copley, 431, 432.

Corbet, 179, &c, 813, 827.

McCormick, 29, 308, 940.

Cosby, 938.

Costello, 324, 615, &c.

Cotter, 33, 374, 375, 489.

Courtney, 664.

Cox, 213, &c.

Creagh, 38, 319, 700, 815, 845, &c.

Crean, 3 1 .

Cripps, 207.

Crofton, 363, &c.

Croghan, 848.

Crosby, 34, 383.

Crowley, 633.

Cruice or Cruise, 28, 220, 285, 436,

565, &c.
Curran, 128.

Cusack, 10, 11, 61, 85, &c, 880, 883.

Dale, 805.

D' Alton, 28, 29, 34, 264, 367, &c,
804.

Daly, 36, 520, &c, 697, 698, 737,

870, 955.
Darby, 292.

D'Arcy, 7, 11, 125, 478, 528, &c.

Davis, 246, 519, 559.

O'Dea, 343, &c.

Dean, 36, 773, 866.

Dease, 28, 31, 510, &c.

De Courcy, 33, 133, 143, &c, 280,

286, 387, 707, 754.
De-la-Hoyde, 11, 1 2, 742, &c, 957.
De-la-Mer, 348, 370.
Delany, 28, 29, 856.
Dempsey, 8, 106, &c, 395.
Denn, 204, 723, &c.
Derenzy, 29.

INDEX.

971

McDermott, 36, 324, 595, 605, &cM
782, 795, 941, 943.

Devenish, 162, &c.

Devereux, 28, 108.

Dillon, 6, 7, 10, 12, 24, 26, 29, 36,
37, 45, 68, 89, 91, 112, 243, 267, I
369,478, 492, 493, 583, &c, 595,
596, 607, 608, 623, 627, 704,917,
957, 966.

Dinan, 407.

Dixon, 382, 391.

Dobbin, 664, 688.

Doddington, 224, 226.

O'Doherty, 653, 670, &c.

Dolphin, 614.

Donellan, 36, 324, 622, &c.

Dongan, 11, 12, 43, 44, 256, &c, 440,

585, 815, 870.
McDonnell, 35, 257, 304, 306, 532,

&c, 559, 584, 629, 653, 654, 661,

663, 815, 870.
O'Donnell, 34, 46, 233, 266, 545, &c,

559, 622, 652, 659, 660, 671, 758,

781, 924, 941, 965, 967.
Donnelly, 35, 646.

O'Donoghue, 34, 727,755, 918, &c.
O'Donovan, 33, 232, 638, 842, 885, I
&c

Mc Donough, 29, 33, 609, &c, 704,

795, 867.
Domvorth, 407.
Doran, 31.
Dormer, 31, 688.

Dorrington, 11,38, 375,415, 416,&c.
957.

Douglas, 135, 244.
O'Dowd,610, 847.

Dowdall, 7, 32, 294, 426, &c, 458,

630, 660.
Dowell, 615.
Dowling, 31, 855.
Doyle, 29, 745, &c.
Drake, 142.
Dravcott, 7, 31.
O'Driscoll, 755, 895, 901, &c.
Duckenfield, 348.
Duff, 200, 475.
Duigin, 855.
Duignan, 794, 795.
Dulhunty, 854.
Dunn, 823, 852.
Dwyer, 83 1 , &c.

Eceleston, 226, &c.
Edgeworth, 11, 354, 879.
Edwards, 449.

Egan, 28, 34, 283, 713, &c, 887.
Mac Ellicott, 318, 505, 758, 815, 913,

&c, 931.
Elliott, 29, 34, 843, 920.
Ellis, 30, 869.
Ennis, 807.
Esmonde, 678, &c.

Eustace, 61, 347, 350, 416, 483, 581,

717, &c, 967.
Evans, 32.

Everard, 152, 245, &c, 402.
Evers, 206, &c, 799, 880.
Eyre, 523, 524.

Fagan, 169, 379, 423, &c, 639, &c.

Fahy, 449.

Fallon, 36, 873.

O'Falvey, 752, 894.

Fanning, 156, 183, 828, &c.

Fay, 305.

Fennell, 406.

O'Ferrall, 31, 325, 359, &c, 865, 928.
Ferriter, 292, 571, 837, 838.
Fielding, 415, 492, 943.
Fisher, 684.

Fitton, 11, 12, 150, 479, 868, &c.
Fitz-Eustace, 379.

Fitz-Gerald, 7, 10, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33,
37, 38, 109, 163, 292, 318, 395,
430, 478, 502, 526, 549, 559, 630,
668, 696, &c, 718, 783, 840, 918.

Fitz-Gibbon, 763.

Fitz-Harris, 7.

Fitz- James, 476, &c. 967.

Fitz-Maurice, 333, 526, 914.

Fitz-Patrick, 7, 1 1, 31, 198, 506,
&c, 823, 852, 904, 957.

Fitz-William, 46, 150, 417, 516, 962.

O'Fflahertie, 281, 500, 618, &c, 679.

Fleming, 7, 12, 29,31, 35, 220, 432,
578, 642, &e., 775, 923, 957.

Flynn, 29.

Ford, 32.

Fox, 907.

French, 36, 37, 109, 505, 690, 858,
&c.

972

INDEX.

Fullerton, 167, 393.
Furlong, 8, 337, &c

Gafhey, 810, &c, 871.
O'Gallagher, 793, &c.
Galweyj 12, 83, 381, &c, 390, 391,
891.

O'Gara, 36, 191, 302, 323, 418, 610,

775, &c, 965, 967.
Garvey, 500, 575.
Gaydon, 10, 156.
De Geneville, 85, 642.
Geoghegan, 28, 31, 37, 264, &c, 365,

807, 852, 929, 941.
Geraghty, 28.

Gernon, 10, 32, 125, &c, 221, 470.
McGettigan, 146.
Gibbons, 474.
Gifford, 225, &c.
McGill, 649.

McGillicuddy, 232, 727, 937, &c.
Gilmor, 935.

De Ginkle, 70, 140, 262, 376, 409,

411, 515, 953, 954.
O'Glorney, 760.
Gore, 10, 61.
O'Gormican, 28.
Gould, 33, 404, &c, 423, 639.
Grace, 8, 10, 12, 28, 31, 184, 497,

796, &c, 815, 957.
Grady, 290, 838, &c.
Grant, 318, 388.
Greene, 224, 227, &c.
Griffin, 372, &c, 665.

Hackett, 30, 437, &c.

Hadsor, 849.

O'Hagan, 36, 649, &c.

Hagarty, 650, 651.

Haly, 7, 84, 760, &c.

Hamilton, 10, 12, 23, 37, 38, 45, 50,
59, 69, 71, 1 17, 165, &c, 301, 416,
417, 425, 466, 467, 495, 496, 509,
585, 814, 815, 826, 870, 895, 896,
897, 957.

Handcock, 31.

O'Hanlon, 299, 436, 559, 631, &c,
658, 789.

O'Hara, 35, 37, 467, &c, 610, 656
&e.

Harding, 921.
Hardman, 38, 416, 441.
Harrold, 471, &c.
Haugbton, 11, 160.
O'Hea, 844.
Head, 33.
Hearne, 367, 485.
Heffernan, 187, &c.
O'Hebir, 338, &c.
Henessy, 871.
Herbert, 48, 417, 667.
Hevvetson, 714, 724.
Hickson, 639.
Higgins, 28, 610.
Hill, 231, 292.
Hoey, 32.

Hogan, 11, 496, &c.
Hollywood, 7, 220.
Horan, 624, 665.
Hore, 7, 802, &c, 852.
Howley, 693.

Hurley, 28, 29, 109, 243, 285, &c,

669, 759.
Hussey, 29, 669, 724, &c, 918, 966.
Hyde, 752.
Hynes, 222.

Jennings, 29, 45, 712, 713.
Jermyn (Lord Dover), 16, &c.
St. Jobn, 8, 157,
Johnston, 248, 356.
Jordan, 323.
Joyce, 772.

Keane, 37.

Kearney, 34, 127, &c, 151.
Keatinge, 11, 829, &c, 869, 892.
O'Keeffe, 839, &c.
O'Keeley, 844.
Kehoe, 686.

O'Kelly, 30, 36, 117, &c, 266,324,
331, 370, 527, 608, 758, 852, 941,
957.

Kennedy, 28, 249, &c, 281, 295, 319.
Kenney, 698.
McKey, 666.

INDEX.

973

Kindelan, 11, 484, 485.

King, 92, 519, 521, 608, 619.

Kinselagh, 683, &c.

Kirke, 17, 20, 275.

Kirwan, 36, 292, 669, 767, &c, 863.

Knaresborough, 805.

Kyan, see ' O'Cahane.'

Lacey, 7, 211, 291, 368,391, &c,

512, 638, 639, 678, 758, 960.
Laffan, 8.

Lally, 478, 594, &c.
Lambert, 32, 513, 690, 862.
De Lausun, 491, 945, &c.
Lawless, 81, 203, &c, 375, 957.
O'Leary, 704, &c, 727, 755, 886.
Ledwicb, 446, 849, &c.
Leicester, 157, &c, 601.
Leigh, Lee, 30, 248, 494, 816, &c,
959.

Leonard, 33, 315.
Levallin, 380, 708.
Levison, 70, 377, 516.
Leyns, 769, &c.
Lilly, 160.

Lloyd, 1 1 9, 248, 509.

Loftus, 94, 110, 349, 870.

Lombard, 836, &c.

Loughnan, 811.

Lowe, 248.

Lucas, 354.

Lundy, 11, 12, 171.

Luttrell, 7, 10, 1 1, 12, 29, 30, 54, 61,

189, &c, 242, 302, 344, &c, 409,

870, 966.
Lynch, 12, 403, 521, 604, 769, &c.
O'Lyne, 405, 406.
Lyons, 351.
Lysaght, 84, 334, &c.

Mac Cabe, 35, 922, &c.

Mac Cann, 670.

Mac Cartane, 11, 15.

Mac Carthy, 6, 10, 28, 29, 33, 34,
48, 142, 209, 231, 232, 314, 319,
375, 376, 4(»9, 486, &c, 502, &c,
559, 589, 618, 634, 727,842, 864,
865, 870, 886, 887, 897, 904, 932. |

Mac Gill, 553.

Mac Guinness, 6, 10, 35, 243, 408,
658, 818, 865, 908, &c., 929, 957,
965, 966.

Mac Gwire, 35, 318, 353, 541, &c,
658, 758, 820, 930, 957, 965.

Mac Kenzie, 359.

Mac Mahon, 7, 35, 232, 299, 658,
683, 815, 817, &c, 833, 905, 911,
923, 937, 941, 965, 966.

Mac Manus, 673, &c.

Mac Namara, 7, 12, 33, 34, 152, &c,
318.

Madden, 478, 518, &C.595, 774, 849,
957.

Magrath, 34, 145, 155, 325, &c
Mahon, 530, 531.

O'Mahony, 668, 669, 702, 754, &c.
Maley or O'Mailley, 499, &c, 852.
Malone, 11, 31, 104, 587, 691, &c.
Mandeville, 34, 689.
Manning, 308.
Mansfield, 33, 831.
Mapas, 292, 293.

Marlborough, Duke of, 63, 64, 362,
895, 915.

Martin, 12, 36, 119, 507, 508, 768,

860, &c.
Massy, 30, 397, 957.
Masterson, 688, 730, 731.
Matthews and Matthew, 12, 216, &c,

357.
Maunsell, 245.

Maxwell, 38, 71, 242, 315, 408, &c,
815.

Maynwaring, 308.
Meade, 33, 866, 870.
Meagh, 252.

O'Meagher, 291, 281, 827, &c.
O'Meara, 10, 28, 53, 74, &c.
O'Melaghlin, 267, 311, 364, 611,
&c.

Moclare, 105, 245, 348.
Moffett, 905.
Moloney, 875.
Mooney, 855.

Moore, 7, 12, 30, 32, 34, 37, 91, 113,
191, 260, 302, 432, 697, 823, &c,
870, 925, 940, 957.
O'More, 383, 962, and see ' Moore.'
Morgan, 459, &c, 957.
I Morley, 355, &c.

Morres, 31, 195, &c.
I Morrow, 33, 161.

974

INDEX.

Mulhall, 28.

Mulledy, 446, &c, 957.
Mullen, 183, 848.

O'Mulloy, 265, 267, 268, 324, 365,

601, 607, 631, 787, &c.
McMurrough, 203, 311, 677.
Murphy, 472, &c, 506,833.

Nagle, 8, 29, 33, 146, &c, 184, 187,

252, 443, 585, 639, 893, 894.
Nangle, 10, 28, 31, 38, 441, &c.
O'Naughton, 650, 791.
Neiland, 881 .

O'Neill, 7, 10, 11, 12,35, 36,37,38,
173, 180, 191,233, 266,270, 297,
299, &c, 311, 318, 319, 350, 35 1 ,
409, 491, 503, 514, 532, 545, 550,
557, &c, 649, 656, 658, 660, 671,
673, 781, 815, 820, 833, 865, 870,
887, 902, 928, 929, 934, 941, 957,
965.

Netterville, 10, 11, 12, 42, 296, &c,
456, 578, 697, 870.

Newcomen, 10, 11, 48, 49, 61, 100,
345, 375, 619.

Nihill, 450, &c.

Noble, 7 J 3.

Nolan, 676, 861, &c.

Nugent, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 31, 33,
34, 44, 53, 59, 61, 74, 150, 263,
278, 358, 428, 446, 489, 537, 698,
701, 714, 734, &c, 815, 852, 869,
925.

Olfideld, 229.
Otvvay, 76.

Oxburgh, 30, 851, &c, 957.

Packenham, 447.

Palles, 846, 847.

Parker, 52, 223, &c. 815.

Parsons, 136, 282, 385, 870.

Penthony, 163.

Peppard, 32.

Peyton, 31.

Phelan, 872, &c.

Phillips, 321, &c. 447.

Piers, 29, 309, 498, 499.

Plowden, 150, 870.

Plunket, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 28, 32, 90,

170, 199, &c, 295, 299, 318, 369,

568, 578, 657, 705, 726, 758, 815,

870, 966.
Ponsonby, 308, 367.
Porter, 8, 33, 479, &c.
Powell, 593, &c.
Power, 7, 12, 33, 505, 708, &c.
Prendergast, 73, 211, &c, 330.
Preston, 10, 113, 296, 429, 577, &c.

585, 623, 680, 870.
Purcell, 10, 11, 12,30, 34, 54, 239,

&c. 409, 585, 870, 939, 957, 966,
Purdon, 291, 334, 369.
Pusignan, 944, 949, &c.

Mac Quillan, 533, 651, &c, 659, 660,

Quinan, 850.

Quinn, 32, 35, 332, &c.

Quirk, 694.

Ramsey, 416, 950.

Reade,"28, 29, 486.

Redmond, 188, &c.

Regan, 894, 906, &c.

O'Reilly, 7, 11, 35, 410, 818, 921,

&c. 960, 963, 965.
Reynolds, 1 1, 592, &c. 892.
Rice, 12, 17, 32, 33,34, 59, 104, 182,

&c, 292, 669, 869.
Ridgeway, 925.
O'Riordan, 119.
Roberts, 29, 957.

Roche, 11, 32,77, &c.,391, 402,669,

762, 823, 957.
Rochfort, 429, 728, &c.
Ronayne, 573, 574, 708, 895.
De Rosen, 944, &c.
Roth, 11, 419, 478, 808, &., 847,

848, 898, 941.
O'Rourke, 11, 12, 554, &c, 592, 609,

612, 957, 965.
Russell, 10, 1 1, 30, 177, 390, 434, &c.
St. Ruth, 56, 57, 136, 478, 493, 952,

&c.

Rutledge, 611.

Ryan, 34, 287, 288,512,713, 878, &c.

IXDEX.

975

Snrsfield, 7, 8, 30, 33, 37, 58, 119,
132, &c, 191, 194, 302, 381, 386,
417, 706, &c, 815, 865, 957, 963,
966.

Savage, 35, 305, &c, 801.
Scanlan, 884.

Schomberg, 21, 52, 129, 491.
Scott, 505, 858, &c, 941.
Scurlog, 7, 8.

Segrave, 7, 79, 445, 729, &c.
Shanahan, 625, &c, 881.
Skanley, 786, &c.
O'Shaughnessy, 37, 321, 328, &c.
Sheales, Sheill, &c, 510, 613, &c.
Slieares, 382.
O'Shee, 29, 31, 688, &c.
Sheehan, 870.

Sheldon, 24, 37, 59, 67, &c, 93, 375,

395, 416, 591.
Sheridan, 1 1, 12, 870.
Sherlock, 7, 33, 482, &c, 731, 732.
Shortell, 802.

Skelton, 229, &c, 458, &c.

Skerrett, 863.

Skiddy, 186, 423.

Smith, 11, 665.

Somerville, 458.

Southwell, 172, 385, 386.

Spenser, 715, &c.

Stafford, 12, 35, 415, 561, &c.

Stanley, 469, &c.

Stapleton, 624, &c.

Staunton, 37, 400, &c.

Stephenson, 524, &c, 920.

Stewart, 11, 167, 651.

Stopford, 91.

Stritch, 237, &c, 884.

Stronge, 8.

O'Sullivan, 11, 29, 33, 231, &c, 269,

559, 635, 727, 842, 888, 938.
Supple, 33, 712.
Sutherland, 73, 209, &c.
Sutton, 350, 379, 480, &c.
Swan ton, 29.

Mc Sweeny, 34, 232, 748, &c.
Synnot, 161, &c.

Taaffe, 6, 12, 417, 451 , &c, 756.
Talbot, 6,7, 10, 11, 12,30, 31,32,
41,&c.,88, 89,191, 192, 293,375,

422, 524, 585, 586, 869, 870, 941,

957, 967.
Taylor, 96, 378, &c, 426.
Terry, 400, 498, 702, 922.
De Tesse, 70, 951.
Tipper, 458.
Tobin, 11, 691.

O'Toole, 28, 32, 203, 462, &c. 883, 942.
Touchett, 460, &c.
Townley, 12, 32.

Trant, 30, 31, 183, 374, 640, 751, &c.
Trench, 624, 717.

Tuite, 28, 2 1 1, 446, 791, 957, 959, &c.
Tully, 624.
Turner, 7.

Tyrrell, 158, 270, 349, &c.

Usher, 12, 168, 485.

D'Usson, 70, 136, 192, 702, 951, &c.

Verdon, 219, &c.

Wadding, 7, 832.

Wale, 252, &c.

Wall, 30, 690.

Walsh, 7, 10, 562, &c.

Ware, 327, 363, 667, 879.

Warren, 31, 439, &c., 683.

Wauchop, 38, 347, 899, 911, 927,

963, 966.
Weaver, 31, 494.
Webber, 382.
Weldon, 450.

White, 8, 11, 12, 32,33, 34, 35,61,

417,424, 743, &c, 870.
Whitehead, 32.
Williams, 310.
Wingfield, 32, 942.
Winston, 572, 573.
Wogan, 1 1, 30, 32, 49, 465, 539, &c,

723.

Wolseley, 272, 321, 447.
Wolverston, 8, 32, 295.
Wood, 509, 723.
Woulfe, 451, 763, 764.
Wray, 32, 214, &c.
Wyer, 371.
Wynne, 794.

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